Paul Randall
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Paul Randall | ||
| Date of birth | 16 February 1958 | ||
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1971 | Charlton Mackrell | ||
| 1972 | Glastonbury Town | ||
| 1973 | Bristol Rovers | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1974–1977 | Glastonbury Town | ||
| 1977 | Frome Town | ||
| 1977–1978 | Bristol Rovers | 52 | (33) |
| 1978–1980 | Stoke City | 46 | (7) |
| 1980–1986 | Bristol Rovers | 184 | (62) |
| 1986–1989 | Yeovil Town | 121 | (50) |
| 1989–1993 | Bath City | 143 | (80) |
| 1993 | Weymouth | ||
| 1993 | Clevedon Town | ||
| 1993 | Welton Rovers | ||
| 1994–1995 | Glastonbury Town | ||
| 1995 | Street | ||
| 1995–2000 | Wells City | ||
| Total | 546 | (232) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Paul Randall (born 16 February 1958) is an English English footballer who played in the Football League for Bristol Rovers and Stoke City.
Randall was born in Sefton, Liverpool. His mother, June was born in Dar es Salaam in the African country of Tanzania after her father had moved there to work as a merchant. After she moved back to England and joined the British Army and whilst stationed in Aldershot she met his father, Ken who was a semi-professional footballer for the local team having previously been on the books at Everton. They moved back to Liverpool where they started a family before moving to the Somerset town of Glastonbury. At school Randall began playing football with village side Charlton Mackrell and also represented Mid-Somerset and would attend matches at local side Glastonbury Town. One day when he was watching a reserve match he was invited to play for them by the manager and at the age of 13 he played for Glastonbury Town Reserves against Ilminster Town.
Randall was then offered a trial by Bristol City after he was spotted by Bristol City player Peter Spiring's dad who told their scout Jock Rae about Randall. He played a few trial matches for the Robins but an offer did not materialise and he carried on playing for Glastonbury and was also played for the Somerset school county team whose manager was former Bristol Rovers winger George Petherbridge. He got Randall a trial at Rovers and after impressing in the trial match he was invited back to play in the youth team and 'A'-team matches but after a year he was released. After leaving school he went to work with his dad as a groundsman at Millfield and was still playing for Glastonbury Town now under the management of former Cardiff City player Peter Thomas. Randall scored 24 goals in his first season under Thomas and he soon got him a trial with Cardiff City. Randall had now left Millfield with his father and began working with his sister as a shelf-stacker at Andersons Supermarket. At Cardiff he played in a reserve match against Leicester City and although they won the match 1–0 they did not offer him a contract.
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