Pat Van Den Hauwe

International career As a player with British citizenship born outside the UK, 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. It 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. "No parent or grandparent—or even great grandparents—of mine were Welsh", he wrote.

Van Den Hauwe made his international début for Wales in a 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7 game versus Spain which ended with a 3–0 victory at the Racecourse Ground on 30 April 1985.

Personal life On 19 June 1993 he married model Mandy Smith, the former wife of Rolling Stones' bassist Bill Wyman, but they separated two years later and divorced in 1997.

Playing statistics

Honours Birmingham City Football League Second Division promotion: 1979–80

Everton Football League First Division: 1984–85, 1986–87 FA Charity Shield: 1985 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1984–85 FA Cup runner-up: 1984–85, 1985–86, 1988–89

Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup: 1990–91 FA Charity Shield: 1991 (shared)