Gary Mills (footballer born 1961)

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Gary Mills
Personal information
Full name	Gary Roland Mills
Date of birth	November 11, 1961 (1961-11-11) (age 46)
Place of birth	Northampton, England
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Tamworth
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1978–1982 1982–1983 1982–1983 1983–1987 1987–1988 1989–1994 1994–1996 1998 1999–2001 2001 2001–2002 2005	Nottingham Forest Seattle Sounders → Derby County (loan) Nottingham Forest Notts County Leicester City Notts County Gresley Rovers King's Lynn Boston United Tamworth Glapwell Total	058 0(8) 00? 0(?) 018 0(2) 074 0(4) 075 0(8) 200 (15) 047 0(0) 007 0(0) 00? 0(?) 008 0(0) 00? 0(?) 00? 0(?) 487 (37)
National team
19??–19??	England U-21	002 0(0)
Teams managed
1997–1998 1998–2000 2001–2002 2004–2005 2005–2007 2007–	Grantham Town King's Lynn Tamworth Notts County Alfreton Town Tamworth
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Gary Roland Mills (born November 11, 1961 in Northampton) is a former English footballer and current manager of Conference North side Tamworth.

Contents 1 Playing career 1.1 Nottingham Forest 1.2 Seattle Sounders & Derby County on loan 1.3 Return to The City Ground 1.4 Notts County 1.5 Leicester City 1.6 Meadow Lane again 1.7 Gresley Rovers 2 Management career 3 Career honours 3.1 Honours as player 3.1.1 Nottingham Forest 3.1.2 Leicester City 3.1.3 Notts County 3.2 Honours as manager 3.2.1 Tamworth 4 Managerial stats 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Playing career

[edit] Nottingham Forest

Mills started his long footballing career as a player under Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest. During his time as a Forest player an 18-year-old Gary played in the 1980 European Cup Final, winning against Hamburger SV . After making 58 appearances and scoring 8 goals between 1978 and 1982, Mills left Nottingham to join US team, Seattle Sounders.

[edit] Seattle Sounders & Derby County on loan

After only a few months in the United States, Mills returned back to England to play for his former sides local rivals, Derby County on loan. He played 18 games and scored 2 goals.

[edit] Return to The City Ground

It seems Mills was struggling to adjust to life in America^{[citation needed]} and he decided to return to England and join his former club, Nottingham Forest for a second spell. Like the first time round, Mills was a Forest player for four years, spanning from 1983 until 1987. He made 74 league appearances and scored 4 goals.

[edit] Notts County

After calling time on his Nottingham Forest career, Mills was once again on the move, this time to Forest’s main rivals Notts County. He was only there for just under two seasons before joining Leicester City.

[edit] Leicester City

Mills was part of The Foxes midfield for five years and made 200 league appearances exactly and scored on 15 occasions. He was part of the team that won the Football League First Division play-offs in the 1993/94 season, as well as the runners-up in the 1991/92 and 1992/93 season.

[edit] Meadow Lane again

Upon leaving Filbert Street, Mills made a return to The Magpies. Mills picked up his last winners medal here as he was part of the Anglo-Italian cup winners team. Mills left Notts County for a second time in 1996 to take up the management post at Grantham Town.

[edit] Gresley Rovers

Following his first stint of management, with Grantham Town, Mills returned to the playing field for Gresley Rovers. He was only there briefly before taking the vacant position at Kings Lynn.

[edit] Management career

Mills has achieved limited success as a non-league manager and is also a UEFA A badge level coach. During this time he has usually been assisted by Darron Gee, together at Grantham Town and King's Lynn.

He also had a previous spell with Tamworth but left the Lambs in 2002 to become first team coach at Coventry City.^[1]

Mills replaced Bill Dearden as manager of Notts County in January 2004, but despite an improvement in results he could not prevent the club's relegation to League Two.^[2] Over the summer of 2004 Mills reorganised the Notts County squad, thanks in part to a relatively large transfer budget. However, the 2004-05 season began disastrously and Mills was sacked in November 2004. ^[3]

He was appointed manager of Alfreton Town on three-year deal in May 2005.^[4]

Mills left the Impact Arena to return as Tamworth manager on January 26, 2007.^[5] Mills was unable to keep The Lambs up after returning for a second spell in charge, adding another relegation to his managerial CV. ^[6]

[edit] Career honours

[edit] Honours as player

[edit] Nottingham Forest

Winner

• 1979/80 European Cup

[edit] Leicester City

Winner

• 1993/94 Football League First Division (Play-Offs)

Runner Up

• 1991/92 Football League First Division (Play-Offs)
• 1992/93 Football League First Division (Play-Offs)

[edit] Notts County

Winner

• 1994/95 Anglo-Italian Cup

[edit] Honours as manager

[edit] Tamworth

Runner Up

• 2001/02 Southern League Premier Division

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Kings Lynn		1999	2001	?	?	?	?	??.??%
Tamworth		2001	2002	?	?	?	?	??.??%
Notts County		January 7, 2004	November 4, 2004	40	10	19	11	25.00%
Alfreton Town		May 25, 2005	January 26, 2007	?	?	?	?	??.??%
Tamworth		January 26, 2007	Present	34	11	16	7	32.35%

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Gary Mills career stats at Soccerbase
• Gary Mills career stats at Soccerbase
• Gary Mills management career stats at Soccerbase
• Gary Mills career stats at GresleyRovers.com

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v • d • e King's Lynn F.C. – Managers Brain (1935–36) • Reed (1936–38) • Robertson (1946–47) • Armeson (1947–48) • Gadsby (1948–50) • Whitelum (1950–51) • Howe (1951–53) • Todd (1953–57) • Selkirk (1957–59) • Richley (1959–65) • Davies (1965–70) • Brown (1970–71) • Wright (1971–73) • Wignall (1973–74) • White (1974–76) • Rudd (1977–79) • Bridges (1979) • Rudd (1979–84) • Foster (1984–85) • Easthall (1985–87) • Mendham (1987) • Czuczman (1987–88) • Cozens (1988–89) • Rudd (1989–90) • Day (1990–91) • Farrow (1991–92) • Musgrove (1992–93) • Gidman (1993–94) • Godden (1994–95) • Morris (1995–98) • Spearing (1998) • Mills (1998–00) • Spearing (2000–02) • Morris (2002–03) • Taylor (2004–06) • Webb (2006–)

v • d • e Tamworth F.C. – Managers Hennessey (1974–78) • Seedhouse (19??–86) • Smith (1986–91) • Bradbury (1991–92) • Chung (1992–93) • Wood (1993–94) • Green (1994–95) • Hendrie (1995–00) • Mills (2001–02) • Gee (2002–04) • Cooper (2004–07) • Mills (2007–)

v • d • e Notts County F.C. – Managers Browne (1883–93) • Featherstone (1893) • Harris (1893–1913) • Fisher (1913–27) • Henshall (1927–34) • Jones (1934–35) • Pratt (1935) • Smith (1935–36) • McMullan (1936–39) • Parkes (1938–39) • Towers (1939–42) • Womack (1942–43) • Buckley (1944–46) • Stollery (1946–49) • Houghton (1949–53) • Poyser (1953–57) • Lawton (1957–58) • Hill (1958–61) • Coleman (1961–63) • Lowe (1963–65) • Coleman (1965–66) • Burkitt (1966–67) • Beattie (1967) • Gray (1967–78) • Sirrel (1969–75) • Fenton (1975–77) • Sirrel (1978–82) • Wilkinson (1982–83) • Lloyd (1983–84) • Barker (1984–85) • Sirrel (1985–87) • Barnwell (1987–88) • Warnock (1989–93) • Walker (1993–94) • Slade (1994–95) • Kendall (1995) • Nicol (1995) • Murphy (1995–96) • Allardyce (1997–99) • Scott (1999–2001) • Brazil (2001–02) • Dearden (2002–04) • Mills (2004–05) • Thordarson (2005–06) • Thompson (2006–2007) • McParland (2007–)

v • d • e Alfreton Town F.C. – Managers Maybury (–01) • Wilder (2001–02) • Lloyd (2002–05) • Mills (2005–07) • Gee (2007) • Ebdon (2007) • Law (2007–)