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Paul Darrell West (born 22 June 1970) is an English former footballer and manager. He had a four-year career in the Football League with Port Vale, Bradford City, and Wigan Athletic, before moving on to Evesham United via Morecambe. He spent nine years playing for Evesham, and was appointed as the club's manager in 2007, before stepping down in November 2011. He led the club to the Southern Football League Division One Midlands title in 2007–08, as well as two Worcestershire Senior Cup final victories. He returned to manage the club for the 2012–13 season. ==Playing career== West started his semi-professional career with Alcester Town before joining Port Vale in January 1991, signing permanently for a fee of £8,000. He joined the "Valiants" after impressing manager John Rudge and coach Mike Pejic. However he was sold to Bradford City in May 1992 for a fee of £80,000, after manager Frank Stapleton and assistant Colin Todd was impressed when they saw West out play Peter Beagrie. In his first month with the "Bantams", West suffered a stress fracture to the right foot, which kept him on the sidelines for four months. After 12 months at Valley Parade although with another year on his contract he moved to Wigan Athletic in 1993, after manager Kenny Swain paid out a fee of £50,000. Although plagued by injury, he was highly regarded by Wigan and they showed great faith even when West was not fully fit by offering him a two-year deal. West was desperate to repay that faith but in 1995 in only his third league start against Doncaster Rovers at Belle Vue, West was on the receiving end of a horrendous tackle that left him with serious medial and anterior cruciate ligament damage. He underwent surgery for three major knee operations over a two-year period. West was forced to announce his retirement from full-time football due to his weak knee. Jim Harvey the former Northern Ireland assistant manager persuaded West to sign for Morecambe on a pay as you play Deal. West went on to make over 50 appearances for the Shrimps. Although West was offered a one-year deal to stay in Lancashire, he returned to the West Midlands to focus on life outside of football. After returning to the engineering company that he had originally left seven years earlier to go into full time football he also signed a two-year contract with Chris Robinson's Evesham United in the Southern League. He went on to make nearly 400 appearances for the Robins over almost a decade, serving as club captain, before eventually hanging up his boots to join the backroom-staff under manager Phil Mullen. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul West (footballer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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