Michael Phillips is an English association football player who currently plays for Isthmian League Division One South side Maidstone United.

Career

Phillips began his career with Gillingham

Gillingham F.C.

Gillingham Football Club is an English professional football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent. The only Kent-based club in the Football League, they play their home matches at the Priestfield Stadium...

, who played at the time in the Football League First Division

Football League First Division

The First Division was a division of The Football League between 1888 and 2004 and the highest division in English football until the creation of the Premier League in 1992. The secondary tier in English football has since become known as the Championship....

. He made his debut for the club's first team against Blackburn Rovers

Blackburn Rovers F.C.

Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football....

 in May 2001. This was to be his only appearance, however, as his subsequent career was dogged by injury. He was forced to retire from the professional game in 2004 and went on to play non-league football

Non-league football

Non-League football is football in England played at a level below that of the Premier League and The Football League. The term non-League was commonly used well before 1992 when the top football clubs in England all belonged to The Football League; all clubs who were not a part of The Football...

 for Worthing

Worthing F.C.

Worthing Football Club are an English association football club based in Worthing, West Sussex, currently playing in the Isthmian League Division One South...

, Welling United

Welling United F.C.

Welling United Football Club are an English football club, based in Welling in the London Borough of Bexley. They currently play in the Conference South. The 2010–11 season was not a good one for them as the club had financial problems, nearly going bankrupt but lots of supporters chipped in and...

, Ramsgate

Ramsgate F.C.

Ramsgate Football Club are a football team based in Ramsgate, Kent. Having played for many years in the Kent League, they have been promoted for two consecutive seasons and spent the 2006-07 to 2008-09 seasons in the Isthmian League Premier Division....

, Tonbridge Angels

Tonbridge Angels F.C.

Tonbridge Angels Football Club is an English football club who play at Longmead Stadium in Tonbridge, Kent, since moving from the Angel Ground in 1980....

 and Hastings United

Hastings United F.C.

Hastings United is a semi-professional English football club who currently play in the Isthmian League Premier Division and are affiliated to the Sussex County Football Association and the Hastings Football Association....

 before signing for Maidstone United in December 2010. Phillips then left the Stones in the summer of 2011 to join Erith Town

Erith Town F.C.

Erith Town Football Club is a football club based in Erith in the London Borough of Bexley, England. In their previous guise as Erith Town, they had reached the Second Round of the FA Vase five times in their history...

 where he took up a player/assistant manager role, however he returned to Maidstone in a playing role in October 2011.

Personal life

In 2004 Phillips alleged that he, his parents, and girlfriend Alex Day had been assaulted by police while on holiday in Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

. Phillips himself suffered a broken jaw and nose.