5'11"  11st.6lb.
b. Preston 5 November 1951
 

Debut 23 February 1971 (19y 110d) Final Game 26 December 1986 (35y 51d)
First Goal 26 March 1973 Final Goal 30 September 1986
CAREER: Kings Fold PS;Penwortham County Secondary School;Penwortham Hill Rovers;Blackburn Rovers (trial); Bury (trial); Stoke City (trial);Blackpool (trial);Blackburn Rovers May'69 (app) Jan'70;Chester City Jan'87 (free)[66]; York City Jul'88 (free) 16]; Bury Dec'88-Jul'89[7+7];Workington Sep'89; Darwen;Kumu Kwsankoski (Finland) (p-m) May’90;Darwen.
HONOURS 3 Div Ch (Blackburn Rovers) ‘75.
 

FL          593 + 3 apps    24 gls  - 12 wdn                                           7 ns   2 og
FAC         40 apps             1 gl
FLC          38 apps             1 gl                                                              3 ns
FMC                                                                                                       2 ns
Total    671 + 3 apps     26 gls   -12 wdn  +69m -328m et 60m  12 ns    2 og
Penalty record  T 12 Sc 10 Sv 2
Sent off  3 (plus a technical sending off after the final whistle)
ASC     15 apps                          - 1 wdn -3m
Penalty record  T 1 Sv 1
LC      16 + 1 apps                2 gls     - 1 wdn – 36m                               2 ns
FAYC  2 apps
 

The first sign that Fazackerley was going to be exceptional came before he had hardly kicked a ball. During his apprenticeship he lost a full season because of a leg injury but the manager, Eddie Quigley, was sufficiently impressed to send him scouting on future opponents during his inactivity. Recovered he never looked back and settled into a place as one of the two centre backs. Playing alongside a taller man he was the supreme team player, able to anticipate danger, playing to the strengths of his partner and with great speed that enabled him to tidy up. Despite his lack of the extra inches he was seldom beaten in the air, his timing being perfection and he had a body strength that made him a bruising opponent. A ferocious tackler with inch perfect precision he was master of his own penalty area. If his distribution sometimes was suspect it posed the conundrum of how a man who could judge a back pass to inches could be so wayward going forward. His ability was such that if he had played for a larger club he had the talent to have played internationally but in the relative obscurity of Blackburn he went unnoticed, although in breaking the record for appearances at the club he achieved a record that may never be broken. In all he appeared in seventeen seasons for the first team, leaving when displaced by the younger David Mail. Searching for managerial experience he was assistant manager at Chester, coach at Bury and player manager with a newly promoted team in Finland. Appointed youth coach at Newcastle his career flourished when Kevin Keegan arrived and promoted him to the first team. Re-signing to return to Blackburn under Roy Harford he survived the managerial change that brought in Roy Hodgson but not the one that replaced Hodgson with Kidd. Bouncing back spectacularly he followed Keegan first to coach the England national side and then to Manchester City. After losing his position in a re-organisation he was out of football until near the end of 2008 when he was appointed assistant manager to Lee Clark at Huddersfield. In 2010 he was appointed assistant to Sven-Goran Eriksson when the Swede took over at Leicester City.In 2012 he joined Lee Clark at Birmingham City as first team coach but left in February 2014. In July he was appointed assistant head coach to Michael Appleton at Oxford United.