Midfielder Michael "Mickey" Spillane was a member of Norwich's Under-16 squad for the 2004/5 season. In January 2005, he was awarded a scholarship with Norwich to commence at the start of the 2005/6 season. He is equally at home at centre-back or in central midfield.

Spillane attended a training camp with the Republic of Ireland over the Christmas of 2004 and made his debut for the Republic's Under-17 team against Slovenia at Home Park in Dublin on Thursday February 18th 2005. Michael played all 90minutes as the Irish won 2-0.

After accompanying the first team squad on a number of occassions during the autumn and winter of 2005, Michael made his full debut for the injury-plagued Canaries as substitute in their FA Cup third round defeat at home to West Ham on 7th January 2006. he is the yougnest player to represent Norwich in the FA Cup.

In February 2006, Michael and Academy newcomer Mark O'Toole helped the Republic of Ireland Under-17s to second place in the Algarve Tourament - Michael scoring the only goal of the game between the Irish and hosts Portugal.

On 15th April 2006, Michael made his full debut for the Canaries in their 1-0 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday. He kept his place in the side for the 3-2 win over QPR two days later on Easter Monday.

On 30th June 2006, Michael signed a three-year professional contract with the Canaries.

Although out of the first team reckoning under Peter Grant during 2006/7, Michael was a regular for the Republic of ireland Under 18s, captaining them in a victorious international tournament in Portugal against the host nation, Belgium and Georgia. Michael scored the winner against Portugal and two goals in a 2-2 draw with Belgium. He was described by Irish coach Sean McCaffrey as "a key man for us in our Under-19s so he is captain of the Under-18s and he's very crucial for us.. He's always been terrific for us. He was brilliant against Holland recently and he is a very good player with great potential."

On 7th August 2008, Spillane and Chris Martin were loaned to Luton Town for the entirity of the 2008/9 season, days after they were omitted from City's first team squad photograph. His agent Paul Goddard believes his client's best interests are being served by the move - especially as Spillane is in the final year of his Norwich contract. He said: “Michael's been out of the picture for a little while now at City and this is a good opportunity for him to show what he can do. He needs to play and needs to develop.” However it will not be easy at Kennilworth Road. Luton lost their appeal against a 10-point deduction by the FA for financial irregularities, involving payments to agents. The decision means that Luton, who were also docked 20 points by the Football League for failing to comply with its insolvency policy, will start the 2008/9 season on minus 30 points.