# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-patching
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:53:54.962Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-patching"
name: "Martin Patching"
slug: "martin-patching"
description: "Martin Patching was an English professional footballer who played as a midfielder in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Watford and Northampton Town, in non-League football for Dunstable, Staines Town and Hendon, and in Sunday league football for Hemel Hempstead Spinners. He was capped by the England schools team and the national youth team in 1977. Patching scouted for Watford and Nottingham Forest after retiring from playing. His son, Cauley Woodrow, is a professional footballer. Patching died in December 2023, at the age of 65."
tagline: "English association football player (1958-2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1958-11-01"
deathDate: "2023"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.070482666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "مارتين پاتكينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Patching"
    title: "Martin Patching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Patching"
    title: "Martin Patching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66041101"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations