Paul Tait (footballer born 1971)

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Personal information
Paul Tait
Full name	Paul Ronald Tait
Date of birth	31 July 1971 (1971-07-31) (age 36)
Place of birth	Sutton Coldfield, England
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth clubs
1987–1988	Birmingham City
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1988–1999 1994 1997–1998 1999–2002	Birmingham City Millwall (loan) Northampton Town (loan) Oxford United Nea Salamis	170 (14) 000 0(0) 003 0(0) 091 0(3)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Paul Ronald Tait (born 31 July 1971) is an English former professional footballer. Born in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, as a youth he played as a striker but spent most of his playing career as a midfielder. Tait was a boyhood fan of Birmingham City, and achieved his dream by signing professional terms with the club in 1988. He played for Birmingham for eleven years, his most famous moment coming in the 1995 Auto Windscreens Shield final, when, after scoring the winner, he revealed a t-shirt reading "Shit on the Villa", aimed at City's rivals Aston Villa.^[1] He was fined two weeks' wages for the incident, which was echoed in the same fixture eleven years later by Swansea City players.

Tait had loan spells with Millwall and, towards the end of his time at Birmingham, with Northampton Town. He moved on to Oxford United in January 1999, where he spent two and a half years. He also played for the Cypriot team Nea Salamis.