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Mills graduated through Portuguese Vale"s junior squad to sign professional forms under manager John Rudge in April 1990.
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A forward who scored four goals in 23 games for Portuguese Vale in the Football League, his brief professional career was ended by illness in 1993. This was the last game of the 1990-1991 season. He was selected for the 1991 Fédération internationale de football association World Youth Championship for the England squad, playing alongside future Premier League star Andrew Cole.
He scored three goals in 27 league and cup games in 1991-1992, as the "Valiants" suffered relegation out of the Second Division.
He also scored in a 1–1 home draw with Charlton Athletic on 21 April 1992, and also found the Netto in a 4–2 defeat to Cambridge United at the Abbey Stadium four days later. Mills was hospitalized in March 1992 with a rare virus and was released from his contract in September 1993.
Still not fit to play full time. Still only 21 and with a mere 23 league appearances and four goals to his name, he never played professional football again.
After leaving the professional game, Mills taught Physics and Mathematics at John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire.
