Background
Martin was born on 25 April 1963 in East Ham, London and started his footballing career with Millwall in May 1980 after serving his apprenticeship with the club
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After making 163 appearances and scoring 11 goals for he joined Wimbledon on 14 September 1984 for a fee of £35,000. His time at Southend saw him make 267 appearances and score 26 goals and secure promotion on four occasions in the 1986-1987, 1989-1990 and 1990-1991 seasons. He signed for Bristol City on 19 July 1993 and was loaned out to Northampton Town on 13 February 1995, where he made seven appearances and scored one goal.
He finished his career at City with 45 appearances and one goal before being signed by on 4 August 1995 by manager Tony Pulis and was subsequently named as the club captain.
He finished the 1995-1996 season by gaining promotion to the Second Division and left on 30 July 1996 to join Leyton Orient. He left after making 10 appearances on 11 October to join Northampton, who loaned him out to Brighton & Hove Albion on 27 March 1997 and made one appearance.
He retired in May 1998 after making nine appearances for Northampton.
