Paul McManus

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Paul McManus
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-04-22) 22 April 1990 (age 33)
Place of birth Liverpool, England
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
2006–2007 Chester City
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2007–2009 Chester City 27 (3)
2009 Bangor City 14 (2)
2009–2011 Airbus UK Broughton 42 (4)
2012–2016 Rhyl 48 (12)
2015–2016 → Flint Town United (loan) 17 (5)
2016– Runcorn Town 152 (24)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:51, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Paul James McManus (born 22 April 1990) is an English footballer.

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Career

McManus was a product of Chester City's youth system and a prolific scoring record for the youth and reserve sides persuaded Bobby Williamson to hand McManus a professional contract on 2 October 2007. Highlights of his early time at the club included scoring the shock winner for Chester's youngsters against Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Youth Cup in December 2006 and a hat-trick against Carlisle United in a reserve fixture in September 2007.

He made his Football League debut as a late substitute in a 3–1 home win over Shrewsbury Town on 7 October 2007, becoming the first player born in the 1990s to make a first-team appearance for Chester. He is one of several homegrown players to appear for the first-team this season. He made his first starting appearance in the first–team in a Football League Trophy tie away at Carlisle United two nights later and remained in the first–team squad for most of the season. In the closing weeks of the 2007–2008 season he played regularly in attack, scoring his first league goal in a 2–1 loss to Lincoln City on 12 April 2008. [1]

The following season saw McManus scored successive equalisers for Chester against Shrewsbury Town and Luton Town in September but he was allowed to move to Bangor City shortly before the transfer window closed on 2 February 2009. [2] He made 14 appearances during the remainder of the 2008–09 season and also won the Welsh Cup and played in the final of the Welsh League Cup. [3] At the end of the season, he was released by Bangor at the end of the season, moving to Airbus UK Broughton. [4]

In January 2012 he joined Rhyl.

In 2016 McManus signed for Runcorn Town. In February 2019 he became player-manager on a caretaker basis, and was appointed as permanent player-manager prior to the final game of the season.

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References

  1. ↑ "Chester 1–2 Lincoln City". BBC Sport. 12 April 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
  2. ↑ "Chester duo become Citizens". welsh-premier.com. 2 February 2009. Retrieved 2 February 2009.
  3. ↑ "Aberystwyth Town 0–2 Bangor City". Welsh Football Data Archive. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
  4. ↑ "McManus completes Airbus move". welsh-premier.com. 30 July 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
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