Justin Miller (soccer)

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Justin Miller
Personal information
Full name Justin James Miller [1]
Date of birth (1980-12-16) 16 December 1980 (age 43)
Place of birth Johannesburg, South Africa
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) [2]
Position(s) Central defender
Youth career
Ipswich Town
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2000–2003 Ipswich Town 0 (0)
2002 → Leyton Orient (loan) 13 (0)
2003–2007 Leyton Orient 150 (5)
2007–2008 Port Vale 14 (0)
2008–2009 Chelmsford City 21 (0)
2009–2010 Bidvest Wits 14 (1)
2010–2011 Rushden & Diamonds 32 (3)
2011–2013 Chelmsford City 64 (4)
2014 Chelmsford City 11 (0)
2014–2016 Bury Town 48 (8)
Total367(21)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Justin James Miller (born 16 December 1980) is a South African former footballer who played as a central defender in England.

Contents

He started his career in England with Ipswich Town in 2000 but moved on to Leyton Orient three years later without playing a competitive game for Ipswich. In four years with Orient, he made 150 league games before he switched to Port Vale for the 2007–08 campaign. He spent the next season with non-league Chelmsford City before returning to his native South Africa to play for Wits University. He returned to England in 2010 to spend a season with Conference side Rushden & Diamonds before returning to Chelmsford City the following year. He spent two years with Chelmsford and was released for a few months before he re-signed again in January 2014. He joined Bury Town later in the year and stayed at the club until 2016.

Career

Miller started his professional career at Ipswich Town but was let go at the end of the 2002–03 season without making a first-team appearance. [3] He signed with Third Division side Leyton Orient, who he had previously been loaned out to. In the 2004–05 campaign, he racked up a total of 47 appearances in all competitions, and then in the following season hit a total of 43 appearances. In his four years with the club, he racked up 150 league appearances before being released in May 2007. [4]

He moved to Martin Foyle's Port Vale ahead of the 2007–08 season on a two-year contract from Leyton Orient, along with fellow Orient player Shane Tudor. [5] He only lasted one season with the club, scoring once against Morecambe in the Football League Trophy, [6] before falling out of favour with new boss Lee Sinnott. [7]

In July 2008, he signed for non-league Chelmsford City, [8] [9] following an unsuccessful trial period at Aldershot Town. [10] However, in January 2009 Miller moved back to South Africa for family reasons. [11] He signed for Johannesburg club Bidvest Wits. [12]

Miller joined Conference National club Rushden & Diamonds in June 2010. [13] He made 37 appearances in all competitions, though the club suffered a crisis in summer 2011 and were expelled from the Conference. [14]

In July 2011, he re-signed with Chelmsford City on a part-time basis, back in the Conference South. [15] The club finished one place and four points outside the play-offs in 2011–12, before securing a play-off spot in 2012–13. He was released by manager Dean Holdsworth for "financial reasons" in the summer of 2013 but was re-signed by Chelmsford for a third time in January 2014. [16] He helped the "Clarets" to a 17th-place finish in 2013–14.

He spent the 2014–15 season with Bury Town, as the Blues were relegated out of the Isthmian League Premier Division in last place. Bury Town finished 13th in Isthmian League Division One North in 2015–16.

Career statistics

ClubSeasonDivisionLeague FA Cup League Cup OtherTotal
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Ipswich Town 2000–01 [17] Premier League 0000000000
2001–02 [18] Premier League0000000000
2002–03 [19] First Division 0000000000
Total0000000000
Leyton Orient 2002–03 [19] Third Division 19020102 [lower-alpha 1] 0240
2003–04 [20] Third Division342201000372
2004–05 [21] League Two 43010102 [lower-alpha 1] 1 [lower-alpha 1] 471
2005–06 [22] League Two34150101 [lower-alpha 1] 0411
2006–07 [23] League One 31221101 [lower-alpha 1] 0353
Total163512150611867
Port Vale 2007–08 [24] League One14010001 [lower-alpha 1] 1 [lower-alpha 1] 161
Chelmsford City 2008–09 [25] Conference South 210000000210
Bidvest Wits 2009–10 [26] Premier Soccer League 141000000141
Rushden & Diamonds 2010–11 [27] [28] Conference 323203 [lower-alpha 2] 000373
Chelmsford City 2011–12 [26] Conference South231411 [lower-alpha 2] 000282
2012–13 [26] Conference South373403 [lower-alpha 2] 000443
2013–14 [26] Conference South150000000150
2014–15 [26] Conference South0000000000
Total754814000875
Bury Town 2014–15 [29] Isthmian League Premier Division314101 [lower-alpha 2] 000334
2015–16 [29] Isthmian League Division One North174322 [lower-alpha 2] 000226
Total4884230005510
Career total367212741408241627
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Appearance/s and goal/s in the Football League Trophy.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 1 appearance in the FA Trophy and 1 appearance in the Northamptonshire Senior Cup.

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  18. ↑ "Games played by Justin Miller in 2001/2002". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
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