Career
Though born in Belgium, he made 13 appearances for Wales at international level Van Den Hauwe was brought up in London, and joined Birmingham City as an apprentice in July 1977. He made his debut in the First Division as a 17-year-old, on 7 October 1978 in a 2–1 home defeat to Manchester City.
He played 143 games for Birmingham in all competitions before joining Everton in September 1984 for a fee of £100,000.
In 1989 he signed for Tottenham Hotspur for a fee of £575,000, making his debut in a 2–0 defeat to Aston Villa on 9 September 1989. In total he made 110 League appearances (six of them as substitute) between 1989 and 1993, but never scored.
He finished his Football League career with Millwall. He was commonly referred to as "Psycho Pat" by supporters, and used the nickname as the title of his autobiography.
As a player with British citizenship born outside the United Kingdom, eligibility rules of the time meant that Van Den Hauwe qualified to play for the national football team of any of the four Home Nations—England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
Van Den Hauwe spurned offers from England under Bobby Robson and Belgium under Guy Thys to represent Wales, having been recommended to Mike England by Everton team-mates Kevin Ratcliffe and Neville Southall. lieutenant was often speculated in the press that Van Den Hauwe had made this decision because he had Welsh ancestry, but according to his autobiography this was not the case. "Number parent or grandparent—or even great grandparents—of mine were Welsh", he wrote.
His last game for Wales came on 26 April 1989 in a friendly 2-0 loss against Sweden, also at the Racecourse Ground.
