Martin Hayes (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Martin Hayes | ||
| Date of birth | 21 March 1966 | ||
| Place of birth | Walthamstow, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||
| Playing position | Winger, Attacking midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1982–1983 | Arsenal | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1983–1990 | Arsenal | 102 | (34) |
| 1990–1993 | Celtic | 7 | (0) |
| 1991 | → Coventry City (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 1992 | → Wimbledon (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 1993–1995 | Swansea City | 61 | (8) |
| 1994–1995 | Cliftonville | 3 | (0) |
| 1995 | Southend United | 0 | (0) |
| 1995 | Dover Athletic | 18 | (5) |
| 1996 | Crawley Town | ||
| 1996–1997 | Collier Row & Romford | 58 | (29) |
| 1998 | Purfleet | ||
| 1997–1999 | Romford | 69 | (28) |
| 1999–2001 | Bishop's Stortford | ||
| National team | |||
| 1987–1988 | England U21 | 3 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1999–2008 | Bishop's Stortford | ||
| 2009–2010 | Wingate & Finchley | ||
| 2010–2011 | Dover Athletic | ||
| 2015– | Waltham Abbey | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Martin Hayes (born 21 March 1966) is an English former footballer and current manager of Waltham Abbey.
Born in Walthamstow, London, Hayes played youth football for Essex schoolboys before joining Arsenal as an apprentice in June 1982. A promising attacking player, either up front or on the left wing, Hayes impressed in the Arsenal youth and reserve teams, and made his first-team debut against Oxford United on 16 November 1985 at the age of 19. He played another 13 matches that seasons as Graham Rix's understudy, scoring three goals. Just weeks before the end of the season, Don Howe, the manager who had given Hayes his debut, stepped down as manager following reports that Arsenal had offered his job to Terry Venables, but when the new manager was announced a few weeks later it was George Graham who took over. And fortunately for Hayes, he remained in the new manager's plans.
With the ageing Rix starting to tire, Hayes soon established himself as Arsenal's regular left winger, and in 1986–87 he was the club's top scorer with 24 goals, 12 of them being penalties; he also played in the Gunners' League Cup-winning team that year, beating Liverpool 2–1. However, he could not continue this form the following season, and only scored three times – one of them being the opening goal in the League Cup final against Luton Town. However, Hayes also hit the post from a yard out when Arsenal were 2–1 up, and Luton staged a late comeback to take the game 3–2. The arrival of Brian Marwood in March threw his first team chances into serious doubt.
Hayes began to lose his form, and although he played 17 matches of Arsenal's 1988–89 First Division campaign, 14 of them were as substitute as new arrival Brian Marwood became Arsenal's regular on the left. However, he played an adequate number of games to qualify for a title winner's medal to add to his League Cup winner's medal from two years previously. He was on the pitch as a substitute in the final game of the season when Michael Thomas famously scored the title clinching goal at Anfield.
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