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Full nameMartin Hicks NameMartin Hicks Playing positionDefender RoleFootballer
YearsTeam PositionDefender 19??–1977Stratford Town
Date of birth(1957-02-27) 27 February 1957 (age 58) Place of birthStratford-on-Avon, England
Martin Hicks (born 27 February 1957) is a former footballer who played in the Football League as a defender for Reading and Birmingham City. He made 500 League appearances for Reading.
Hicks holds the record for the highest number of first team appearances by a Reading player, making a total of 603 first team appearances.
In a 2005 fans' vote to compile Reading's best-ever eleven, Hicks was voted on the team as one of the centre backs.
Between March and August 1979, Hicks was one of the Reading back five that kept a clean sheet for 1,103 minutes - a record that stood until broken by Manchester United.