He was born in Harrow, London, and signed for Watford on leaving Nower Hill High School in 1999.
Patterson was a striker who scored nine goals in his first eight games for Watford's youth team in their FA Premier Academy League campaign.
On 15 October 2002, Patterson was loaned to non-league Slough Town for a period of one month before returning to Vicarage Road.
It was while on the payroll of this club that he died in a car crash on 9 September 2006,[1] less than a week after his 24th birthday.
Patterson had been driving along the A40 in Shepherd's Bush when he lost control of his BMW 328i and the vehicle smashed into roadside barriers.