Free Paulo! If West Ham manage to survive, it would be nice to give him a last taste of European football before he retires. Not like he'll ever see it with the Hammers. 'Course there's the money... When did he leave anyway? (Shows the Johnny-come-lately nature of my fandom there.) Must've been some time ago, he still has hair.
Oh were looking at something around 95/96 Tommy Burns was the boss, Peter Grant was the captain and we had such footballing legends as Simon Donnelly at the club. I think it might have been the season we didnt lose a game and still lost the league. We had some decent players actually thinking back, Cadete, Van Hooijdonk and Di Canio up front.....ahhhhhh memories of cavalier attacking celtic style football coming flooding back.
League Record Season 1995-1996 Position P W D L F A Points 5 36 24 11 1 74 25 83 Aug 26 RAITH ROVERS A 1-0 9,300 Sep 10 ABERDEEN A 3-2 20,000 Sep 16 MOTHERWELL H 1-1 33,377 Sep 23 HEARTS A 4-0 13,696 Sep 30 RANGERS H 0-2 34,250 Oct 4 FALKIRK A 1-0 9,096 Oct 7 PARTICK THISTLE H 2-1 33,585 Oct 14 HIBERNIAN H 2-2 34,123 Oct 21 KILMARNOCK A 0-0 14,011 Oct 28 ABERDEEN H 2-0 34,010 Nov 4 MOTHERWELL A 2-0 12,077 Nov 8 RAITH ROVERS H 0-0 31,119 Nov 11 PARTICK THISTLE A 2-1 12,059 Nov 19 RANGERS A 3-3 46,460 Nov 25 HEARTS H 3-1 33,936 Dec 2 KILMARNOCK H 4-2 33,812 Dec 9 HIBERNIAN A 4-0 14,117 Dec 16 FALKIRK H 1-0 35,012 Jan 3 RANGERS H 0-0 36,944 Jan 6 MOTHERWELL H 1-0 35,370 Jan 9 RAITH ROVERS A 3-1 9,300 Jan 14 ABERDEEN A 2-1 17,100 Jan 17 HEARTS A 2-1 15,871 Jan 20 KILMARNOCK A 0-0 10,400 Feb 2 HIBERNIAN H 2-1 37,142 Feb 10 FALKIRK A 0-0 10,400 Feb 24 PARTICK THISTLE H 4-0 37,193 Mar 2 HEARTS H 4-0 37,193 Mar 17 RANGERS A 1-1 47,312 Mar 23 MOTHERWELL A 0-0 12,394 Apr 1 ABERDEEN H 5-0 35,994 Apr 10 KILMARNOCK H 1-1 36,372 Apr 14 HIBERNIAN A 2-1 10,472 Apr 20 FALKIRK H 4-0 35,895 Apr 27 PARTICK THISTLE A 4-2 13,940 May 4 RAITH ROVERS H 4-1 37,423 Lost one game, source http://www.celticfc.net/ASP/results/statto/league_results_display.asp
I think he played for Celtic in the following season (96/97). He joined Sheffield Wednesday in 97. He was given a massive suspension for pushing the referee after being sent off against Arsenal (Arsenal lost that game 1-0 and decided the destination of the title that season ). Once that suspension was over he joined West Ham, the rest is history.
I think youre right actually, I seem to remember him winning a european trophy with Milan sometime in 95.Might have been the tail end of 95 though he joined us I just honestly cant put a date on it, looks like some nice motivated person is going to have to do some digging
They beat Arsenal to win the European Super cup. The 1st Leg in Highbury ended 0-0 and Milan won the Second Leg 2-0.