Delroy Facey

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Personal information
Delroy Facey

Full name	Delroy Facey
Date of birth	April 22, 1980 (age 26)
Place of birth	Huddersfield, England
Height	6' 0"
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Rotherham United
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1996-2002 2002-2004 2002 2003 2004 2004-2005 2005 2005 2005-2006 2006-	Huddersfield Town Bolton Wanderers → Bradford City (Loan) → Burnley (Loan) W.B.A. Hull City → Huddersfield Town (Loan) Oldham Athletic Tranmere Rovers Rotherham United	75 (15) 10 0(2) 06 0(1) 14 0(5) 09 0(0) 21 0(4) 04 0(0) 09 0(0) 37 0(8) 32 0(9)
National team
	Grenada
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Delroy Facey (born April 22, 1980 in Huddersfield, England) is a British-Grenadian professional football player, currently playing for Rotherham United. He plays as a central forward.

[edit] Progression

Facey began his career at Huddersfield Town after graduating through the ranks of the youth team. He went on to become a first team regular, playing over fifty league games and getting fifteen goals. Bolton Wanderers manager Sam Allardyce spotted his potential and signed him on a Bosman ruling free transfer in the summer of 2002.

Allardyce decided that the young centre-forward wasn't yet ready for first team football after a handful of appearances and so sent him out on loan to Bradford City and then Burnley during the 2002-03 season. Whilst on loan at these two clubs he exhibited his strength and speed, grabbing six goals and managing to score a hat-trick in a 3-1 home win for Burnley against Walsall.

Sadly for Facey this wasn't enough to convince Bolton to play him regularly, and so he moved to West Bromwich Albion in January 2004. Again he made only a limited impact, with only two league starts, before moving clubs again, this time to Hull City on a twelve-month contract. Hull manager Peter Taylor chose to loan out the powerful striker back to his first club, Huddersfield. After a short and unspectacular spell at the McAlpine (now Galpharm) stadium he was transferred to Oldham Athletic.

[edit] Success

Facey only secured a short-term deal to help try and boost Oldham's league position and so failed to secure a longer deal, preferring instead a summer transfer to Tranmere Rovers where he is managed by Brian Little. In his first season at Prenton Park, Facey secured a first team slot and managed to find the scoresheet fairly regularly, scoring eight league goals.

Following his release from Prenton Park at the end of the 2005-06 season, Facey signed for League One club Rotherham United. He has added considerable force to his new club's attack, scoring five goals in 22 appearances.

[edit] External links

Rotherham United F.C. - Current Squad
1 Montgomery \| 2 Worrell \| 3 Hurst \| 4 Keane \| 5 Sharps \| 6 Murdock \| 7 Partridge \| 8 Mills \| 9 Facey \| 10 Henderson \| 11 Robertson \| 12 Cochrane \| 14 Jarvis \| 15 O'Grady \| 16 Brogan \| 17 Newsham \| 18 Duncum \| 19 King \| 20 Taylor \| 21 Diagouraga \| 22 Cutler \| 23 Woods \| 24 Fleming \| 25 Bopp \| 26 Green \| 27 Yates \| 28 Kerr \| 29 Harrison \| 30 Liversidge \| 33 Streete \| Caretaker Manager: Robins