Alan Miller (footballer)

Alan John Miller (born Epping, 29 March, 1970) is an English former professional football goalkeeper.

Miller began as an apprentice at Arsenal in 1984. With them he won the FA Youth Cup in 1988, and won four caps for the England under-21 team. However, with John Lukic and then David Seaman first-team opportunities were rare; he had loan spells with Plymouth Argyle, West Bromwich Albion and Birmingham City. He finally made his Arsenal debut on November 21 1992 as a substitute (the first ever Arsenal goalkeeper to come on as a sub) and made another seven appearances over the next two seasons. He won FA Cup and League Cup winners' medals in 1992-93Fact|date=November 2007 and a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup medal in 1993-94, as an unused sub each time.

In summer 1994, wanting first team football he moved to Middlesbrough for £500,000, winning a First Division winners' medal in his first season. In 1997 he signed for West Bromwich Albion in a £400,000 deal, before moving on to Blackburn Rovers in 2000. He played only two games during his time at Ewood Park, and spent time on loan at Bristol City and Coventry City during 2000-01. In October 2001 he was loaned out again, this time to St Johnstone. [cite news
date=2001-10-10
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/s/st_johnstone/1592137.stm
title=Miller joins St Johnstone
publisher=BBC Sport
accessdate=2007-05-11] Miller retired in 2003 after failing to overcome a back injury. [cite news
date=2003-04-07
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/2924601.stm
title=Miller forced to retire
publisher=BBC Sport
accessdate=2007-05-11]

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