Derek Fazackerley

Derek Fazackerley
Personnel
Surname	Derek William Fazackerley
birthday	5th November 1951
place of birth	Preston ,  England
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
	Penwortham Hill Rovers
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1969-1987	Blackburn Rovers	596 (23)
1987-1988	Chester City	66 0(0)
1988	York city	16 0(0)
1988	Bury FC	14 0(0)
1989	AFC Workington
	FC Darwen
1990	Kumu Kuusankoski	17 0(0)
	FC Darwen
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2018	Oxford United (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Derek William Fazackerley (born November 5, 1951 in Preston ) is a retired English football player . The central defender is still the club's internal record holder for the Blackburn Rovers in terms of most mandatory and league appearances.

Athletic career

Fazackerley grew up not far from his hometown in Penworth to the south and learned to play football at both Kings Fold Primary School and later at the small local club Penwortham Hill Rovers . In July 1969 he joined the Blackburn Rovers after he had already completed trial training sessions there and had also tried at Bury FC , Stoke City and Blackpool FC .

Less than two years later, "Faz", as he was mostly called, signed the first professional contract with the "Rovers" in February 1971. Shortly thereafter, he made his debut on February 23, 1971 in a goalless draw against Hull City , but had to accept relegation to the third division at the end of the 1970/71 season. From the resulting rebuilding under the new coach Ken Furphy , Fazackerley emerged as the winner and together with the newly signed veteran John McNamee he formed the defense center from then on. Although not very tall at just under 1.80 meters, he showed himself to be effective in header duels and also as a robust two-fighter. Supported by a good "timing" feeling and a high basic speed, he had both a pronounced positional play and above-average tactical understanding. After McNamee, Graham Hawkins and John Waddington were further partners for Fazackerley in central defense in the 1970s , but above all he harmonized perfectly with Glenn Keeley from 1976 onwards . Previously, he had been able to celebrate the return to the Second Division in the 1974/75 season on the third division championship, although he had only been able to recapture the regular place of Waddington in the middle of the promotion season.

With the exception of a single season, Fazackerley played more or less consistently in the second-highest English division until 1987; in addition he had after the interim relegation in 1979 with only 36 goals conceded in 46 league games at Keeley's side a large part of the direct resurgence in the following season 1979/80. Further title successes failed to materialize, but with his long-standing commitment to the club he played his way into the Blackburn Rovers' record books - the 674 compulsory and 596 league games have not been outdone to this day. During the 1986/87 season, the changing of the guard finally took place with the much younger David Mail . Fazackerley moved to Chester City in January 1987, where he held the post of assistant coach. The final stages of his active career were York City , FC Bury , AFC Workington and most recently FC Darwen and the Finnish club Kumu Kuusankoski , some of whom also worked in the coaching staff.

After the active career

In August 1992, Fazackerley hired at Newcastle United , where he assisted together with Les Reed head coach Kevin Keegan . Three years later he returned to Blackburn and from September 1995 worked first under Ray Harford and later under Roy Hodgson . When Brian Kidd took over the helm in Blackburn in December 1998, Fazackerley had to give way. However, in April 1999 he found a new briefing position at Bolton Wanderers and also found himself again with Keegan, who had meanwhile taken over the English senior team .

Barnsley FC employed him between January and October 2001 before Keegan piloted him to Manchester City in November 2001 . After his departure in 2005, he stayed with the “Citizens” and was primarily active in the scouting area under his successor, Stuart Pearce . His successor Sven-Göran Eriksson called Fazackerley back as a first team supervisor and placed him next to him on the dugout during his only 2007/08 season in Manchester. With the arrival of Mark Hughes in the summer of 2008, Fazackerley's time at Manchester City ended.

He worked briefly in America before being hired in December 2008 by Lee Clark - a former Newcastle protégé - as an assistant from Huddersfield Town .

In January 2018, Fazackerley took over the interim coaching position at Oxford United after the dismissal of Pep Clotet , and at the end of March he returned to his post as assistant coach after signing Karl Robinson .

literature

• Jackman, Mike: Blackburn Rovers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-85983-709-2 , pp. 185-186 .

Web links

• Statistics in the "Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bbc.com: Pep Clotet: Oxford United sack manager (Jan. 22, 2018) , accessed January 23, 2018
2. ↑ bbc.com: Oxford United: Karl Robinson named new head coach after Charlton departure (March 22, 2018) , accessed March 23, 2018