After starting our at Hillingdon Borough, Paul spent fve years at Chelsea, playing 79 League games and scoring 11 goals, and was in the side that won the old Second Division in 1983. He was sold to Reading for £50,000 in August 1986.

He played 16 games for Reading, scoring 4 times before being seriously injured, and after a comeback failed he played at Enfield, and Maidenhead United before having a spell with the Woods. Paul, a talented left-sided player, also appeared for Burnham.