Martin Hayes (soccer player)

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Martin Hayes
Personnel
Surname Martin Hayes
birthday March 21, 1966
place of birth Walthamstow , London ,  England
size 183 cm
position Winger (left)
Juniors
Years station
1981-1983 Arsenal FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1983-1990 Arsenal FC 102 (26)
1990-1993 Celtic Glasgow 7 0(0)
1992 →  Wimbledon FC  (loan) 2 0(0)
1993-1995 Swansea City 61 0(8)
1995 Southend United 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1987-1988 England U-21 3 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1999-2008 Bishop's Stortford FC
2009-2010 Wingate & Finchley
2010-2011 Dover Athletic
1 Only league games are given.

Martin Hayes (born March 21, 1966 in Walthamstow , London ) is a former English football player . The left winger or attacking midfielder was one of Arsenal's most promising talents in the second half of the 1980s and won the English championship in 1989 and the league cup two years earlier . He then experienced a career dip and appeared very rarely even after moving to Celtic Glasgow in 1990.

Athletic career

Arsenal FC (1983–1990)

Hayes went through the youth departments of Arsenal FC and after his transition to the professional field in November 1983 he debuted a good two years later on November 16, 1985 against Oxford United in a league game for the first team. The game ended in a 2-1 win and the newcomer, replacing Graham Rix on the left wing, promptly set up a Tony Woodcock goal . As a substitute for Rix, he played 13 other competitive games in the 1985/86 season and scored three goals. After the resignation of coach Don Howe, Hayes experienced what was probably the best professional year of his career in the subsequent season 1986/87 under his successor George Graham . With 24 goals he developed into the top scorer of the "Gunners" and impressed with twelve penalty kicks as a safe penalty taker. Another sporting highlight was winning the League Cup in 1987, when Hayes and his men defeated Liverpool 2-1 in the final . The fact that, despite this apparent initial spark, the career was not picking up speed was already evident during this year, as coach Graham tried (in vain) to sell his striker to the lower-class Huddersfield Town .

From the 1987/88 season onwards, Hayes also lost his form and his "nose for goal". He only got three competitive goals, including the first goal in the league cup final against Luton Town . Nevertheless, after the 2: 3 bankruptcy against the outsider, Hayes was later one of the “scapegoats”, as he only hit the post from a short distance when the score was 2: 1 and thus missed a possible decision. With the commitment of Brian Marwood in left midfield, his prospects continued to deteriorate and when he won the championship in 1989 he was in the starting line-up in only three of 17 league games. Nevertheless, his contribution was enough to receive an official championship medal and during the decisive 2-0 winner against Liverpool FC at the last minute he was on the field. Since, in addition to Marwood, players like Paul Merson were preferred to his left attacking midfield position in the 1989/90 season and the sporting management found little other use for him, his end in London finally became apparent and in September 1990 he switched to Scotland to Celtic Glasgow. Before that, he had not found his way into the first team once more in the beginning 1990/91 season.

The post-Arsenal period (1990–1995)

At Celtic, Hayes was considered a significant transfer and, in addition, he was granted the unsuccessful pay rise at Arsenal. Nevertheless, this career move turned out to be a disaster for him. Hayes didn't score in the first five competitive games and quickly found himself far from the team. Responsible for this was, as it were, that the club was going through a crisis and coach Billy McNeill was under pressure, but also the fact that Hayes was not the classic "wing runabout" in the tradition of Jimmy Johnstone , who was archetypal for the Celtic game, but rather an attacking midfielder and team player. In total, Hayes only made seven league games in two and a half years and although Liam Brady, a new coach, had announced the restart for all players in the meantime, this did nothing to change Hayes' lack of prospects in the reserve team. In addition, he was injured in the form of a broken leg when he was given the prospect of a return to English top division football during a loan period at Wimbledon FC at the end of the 1991/92 season .

At the beginning of the 1993/94 season, Hayes then moved to the Welsh club Swansea City , which was employed in the English third division. Immediately Hayes captured a regular place there on the left, completed 22 league games until February 1993, but then missed until the end of the season and also missed the decisive semi-final and final matches to win the Football League Trophy . In his second and final year for Swansea, Hayes struggled to find his way back into the squad and was often featured on the right. In the summer of 1995, the club then released him and Hayes believed he had found a new employer in third division Southend United . This let him play in a game of the Anglo-Italian Cup against Brescia Calcio , but then refrained from a permanent commitment of the midfielder. Instead, he switched to non-league football and was hired at Dover Athletic . Later club stations included Crawley Town , Collier Row & Romford , FC Purfleet , FC Romford and FC Bishop's Stortford . At the last-mentioned club he started as a player-coach in 1999 and remained in the sporting management until November 2008. After a stint at Wingate & Finchley (February 2009 to June 2010), he was in charge of the Dover Athletic team until September 2011.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ England - U-21 International Results 1986–1995 - Details in the RSSSF database (English)
  2. ↑ "Football: Hayes emerges from the Celtic haze: He was in Arsenal's championship side and played for England B, now he is firing Swansea's FA Cup run. Joe Lovejoy reports " (The Independent)
  3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1995-96 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1995, ISBN 0-09-180854-5 , pp. 93 f .
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-97 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1996, ISBN 1-85291-571-4 , pp. 109 .
  5. ^ "Dover boss to add five to squad" (BBC Sport)
  6. ↑ "Dover Athletic sack manager Martin Hayes" (BBC Sport)
personal data
SURNAME Hayes, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Walthamstow , London , England