Paul Meade

DOB: 8th July 1964

Position: Midfielder

Season of first appearance: 1980/81

Season of last appearance: 1982/83

Full Appearances: 13

Substitute: 9

Goals: 0

Also played for:

Ramsgate

Player Profile:

Diminutive local player who joined Margate's reserves for the 1980/81 season and made his debut for the first-team as a substitute in a Southern League game away to Basingstoke on 13.12.80. Paul then made his full debut in a 3-2 win at Andover on 25.4.81 - it was his only other appearance during the campaign.

During the 1981/82 season, Paul made a further 14 appearances for Thanet United, five of them as a substitute. At that time he became widely known as Paul 'Kenny' Meade. He asked for the 'Kenny' to be added as he was a big fan of Kenny Dalglish but that caused some confusion. He was sometimes listed in programmes and reports as just Kenny and for a while some supporters thought that Paul had a twin brother. In between his sporadic appearances for the first-team, Paul continued to play regularly for the reserves and Thanet finished the campaign at the foot of the Southern League Southern Division.

He stayed with United for the 1982/83 season and Paul made six more first-team appearances during the campaign (three of them as a substitute) which proved to be his last for the senior side.

However, Paul carried on playing for United's reserves during the 1983/84 season.

Paul later spent several seasons with Ramsgate, appearing for them during the 1985/86, 1986/87 and 1987/88 campaigns. However, he was still mainly a reserve team player at Southwood.

In the summer of 1988, he became the Rams' reserve team assistant manager and still turned out for them on a regular basis during the 1988/89 season.

Early in the 2013/14 campaign Paul became manager of one of Ramsgate's Under-18's teams and at that time he was living in Margate.

Later, Paul became coach to Margate's Under-23 team.