A right sided midfielder from Great Yarmouth, Martin was one of the stars of the City youth side in 1980. However for one reason or another, he failed to live up to his promise. He has since played for non-leaguers King's Lynn, Gorleston and Great Yarmouth Town. Playing for Yarmouth until the end of the 1998/99 season, he did not re-sign for them in the summer and dropped down into the Anglian Combination to play for Acle United. In a 17-1 drubbing of Diss Town Reserves on September 11th 1999, Martin came on as a half time substitute and still managed to score 5 goals. In July 2000, Martin transferred to St Andrews as joint first team manager alongside Dean Bamment

In January 2005, Martin was listed as playing for Halvergate United.

n June 2025 he joined Great Yarmouth Town as joint manager of their reserves along with Paul Gibbs.