Michael Gilkes

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Personal information
Michael Gilkes
Date of birth	20 July 1965 (1965-07-20) (age 42)
Place of birth	Hackney, England
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position	Left Midfield
Youth clubs
1983–1984	Leicester City
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1984–1997 1992 1992 1997–1999 1999–2001 2001–2003	Reading → Chelsea (loan) → Southampton (loan) Wolves Millwall Slough Town	393 (43) 001 0(0) 006 0(0) 039 0(1) 032 0(2) 083 0(11)
National team
2000	Barbados	005 0(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Michael Gilkes (born 20 July 1965 in Hackney, London) was a footballer who played left wing for Reading and was also a former Barbados international.

Gilkes played more than 550 times as a professional and made his name with the Reading side that nearly won promotion to the Premier League in the early 1990s. A fast, tricky winger, he made over 400 appearances in all competitions for the Berkshire club as they went from the old Fourth Division to the very edge of the top flight. Gilkes spent nearly thirteen years with the Royals, scoring 52 goals, before he was sold to Wolves in 1997. He spent two seasons at Molineux before manager Keith Stevens signed him for Millwall.

In a vote to compile the Royals' best-ever eleven, Gilkes was voted the best left-winger with 80.6% of the vote.^[1] Gilkes played at the Madejski Stadium in the Royals Legends game on 1 May 2006.