Alvin Martin
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alvin Edward Martin | ||
| Date of birth | 29 July 1958 | ||
| Place of birth | Walton, Liverpool, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1974–1976 | West Ham United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1976–1996 | West Ham United | 469 | (27) |
| 1996–1997 | Leyton Orient | 17 | (0) |
| Total | 486 | (27) | |
| National team | |||
| 1981–1986 | England | 17 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1997–1999 | Southend United | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Alvin Edward Martin (born 29 July 1958) is an English retired footballer who played as a defender.
Playing most of his footballing career for West Ham United he appeared in 598 games for scoring 34 goals. With the club for 21 years, and winning the 1980 FA Cup Martin left West Ham in 1996 and played one season with Leyton Orient before moving into football management with Southend United. This lasted two seasons before he started a career in the media on radio station talkSPORT and also as a pundit on Sky Sports TV football talk shows. Playing 17 times for England during the 1980s, Martin represented them at the 1986 World Cup.
Born in Walton, Liverpool, Lancashire, Martin played schools football for Bootle and Lancashire and was attached to Merseyside club Everton as a schoolboy, but left in 1974 after the Goodison Park club only offered him an apprenticeship on a part-time basis. An unsuccessful trial later that summer with Queens Park Rangers was followed the very next day by one for West Ham United, where he was awarded a contract as an apprentice 19 August 1974. He appeared in the FA Youth cup final of 1975 and signed as a professional on 29 July 1976. He did not make his first team debut until 18 March 1978 as a substitute against Aston Villa. His final appearance was as an 88th-minute substitute on 5 May 1996 against Sheffield Wednesday.
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