Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Hand of injury e ended Paul’s dream, but the Celtic starlet is ined to rebuild omising career
debut was the best. That was my dream, and to do it so young too. “Obviously, I thought I was going to have a long career over there ahead of me, but injury knocked it back.
“But now I’m back in the frame, I’m back in love with the game and hopefully I can kickstart my career again with Portadown.” On a personal front George, who played in Saturday’s massive derby win over Loughgall as the Ports kept alive their promotion hopes, is determined to finally put to bed his injury hell and show the Irish League what he’s all about.
While at club level, he wants to help fire the Mid Ulster men back to where they feel they belong – in the top flight slugging it out for honours with the cream of the Premiership.
“For me personally I want to maintain my spot in the team, get fit and hopefully chip in with a few goals as well,” he said.
“For the team, we are just taking every game as it comes, every game is a cup final from now until the end of the season.
“Obviously we want to make the playoffs. The league is not out of sight either but we just have to take every game as it comes.
“Long term, I want to get back playing in the top flight of Irish football.
“I’m at Portadown at the minute so hopefully I can achieve that and hopefully we’re back in the Premier League before you know it.
“In the next couple of years I want to be back playing regular football and back enjoying it again.
“Obviously when I was at Cliftonville that was my goal then.
“But that didn’t work out through injuries and stuff, but now I have got my head sorted and my feet back on the ground.
“And hopefully now I can let people know who I am over here.”