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Wolves Foundation deliver a wide range of educational programmes both in schools across Wolverhampton but also for students heading into further education.

“It’s strange because in my playing career Graham Turner was my first manager at Wolves and my last at Hereford, and now I am back at Wolves where it all started as well. “But ultimately it was probably the pinnacle of my career, winning promotion to the Premier League and scoring a goal at Molineux where it had all started.” “I wanted us to get promoted but still had a lot of affinity for Wolves and will be forever grateful to the club as I wouldn’t have had a career if it wasn’t for them. “I’ve been through that experience of being a young player and if I can give a bit back and pass on a bit of the knowledge I have picked up along the way, then that is something which really motivates me.” Wolves Foundation deliver a wide range of educational programmes both in schools across Wolverhampton but also for students heading into further education. “It was a big game, in the FA Cup, and was a really good scalp at the time. “I was still brand new to it all and remember one of the press grabbed me for an interview after the game so I started talking to him – and the team bus left without me. “I’d say that was my first game with the proper first team, as that Birmingham one in the Anglo-Italian was with a lot of fringe players,” Mills recalls. “And so it was, that on the Wednesday I was sat behind a desk dunking my Kit Kat in a cup of tea, and five days later I had signed for Wolves. It was the first time Wolves had beat top-flight opposition in a cup match for 13 years, and the first FA Cup tie Ipswich had lost at home to a team in a league below them since 1966. “My thought was that Coventry was too big a jump, going from effectively Step 7 on the pyramid to the top, and that with Walsall, if I didn’t make it there, I would end up dropping back into non-league. “That was the job I was aiming to do to be honest, sat behind a desk all the time,” Mills explains.