Paul Terry (footballer)

Paul Terry

Personal information
Full name	Paul Laurence Terry
Date of birth	4 March 1979 (1979-03-04)
Place of birth	Barking, London, England
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Thurrock
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1999–2003	Dagenham & Redbridge	112	(12)
2003–2007	Yeovil Town	135	(10)
2007–2009	Leyton Orient	71	(1)
2009	Grays Athletic	3	(0)
2009–2010	Rushden & Diamonds	31	(2)
2010–2011	Darlington	24	(2)
2011–	Thurrock	4	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12:13, 31 August 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals).

Paul Laurence Terry (born 4 March 1979) is an English footballer who plays for Conference South club Thurrock as a midfielder. He made 206 appearances in the Football League for Yeovil Town and Leyton Orient between 2003 and 2009.

Club career

Terry began his footballing career in 1999 with Dagenham & Redbridge for whom he made 130 appearances in all competitions in four years, helping the club to the Isthmian League Premier Division title in June 2000. He was called up for the semi-professional England National Game XI in January 2003.

Terry signed for Division Three side Yeovil Town in August 2003. He made 155 league and cup appearances for Yeovil in four years, helping the club to the championship of that division, renamed Football League Two, in May 2005. He signed a new one-year extension to his contract in July 2006, but suffered a cruciate knee ligament injury that required surgery in early December 2006 and ruled him out of the rest of the 2006–07 season.

In June 2007, after his contract with Yeovil expired, he joined League One side Leyton Orient on a one-year contract. Terry made 49 appearances for Orient in the 2007–08 season and signed a new one-year contract in June 2008, and scored his only league goal for Orient the following season in the 2–0 win at Walsall on 6 September 2008. He made 81 appearances in total for Orient before he was one of eight players released by manager Geraint Williams at the end of the 2008–09 season.

Terry signed for Conference National club Grays Athletic on 10 August 2009. He made three appearances for Grays before joining fellow Conference side Rushden & Diamonds on 31 August until the end of the 2009–10 season when he was released as a free agent.

On 3 August 2010, he joined Darlington after a successful trial.

Terry joined Thurrock for the start of the 2011–12 season.

Personal life

He is the older brother of Chelsea and England centre-back John Terry, and brother-in-law of Leicester City left-back Paul Konchesky. He was married to Konchesky's sister, Sarah, and they have two children together called Georgia and Frankie.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2010, it was revealed that Terry had an affair with the fiancée of his then Rushden & Diamonds teammate Dale Roberts. On 14 December 2010, Dale Roberts committed suicide after struggling to cope with this fact.

Each season Paul and John have a competition run by Soccer AM on who will score the most goals in the season, called the "Terry-Terry Cup". Although Paul is a midfielder and his brother is a defender, John has won the trophy every season since it was introduced.^{[citation needed]}

Honours

Yeovil Town

• League Two champion: 2004-05

Darlington

• FA Trophy winner: 2010-11

External links

• Paul Terry career stats at Soccerbase