Ians just completed his fifth season at Saltergate, central defender Ian is a fixture in the Chesterfield first team and a regular winner of Players Player of the Year awards from his teammates.

6' 1" tall and weighing 12st 9lbs., Rotherham-born Ian is the nephew of John Breckin, assistant to Ronnie Moore at Millmoor. Born on Feb 24 1975 Ian was a top schoolboy player who represented Rotherham Boys at U11 and U15 level and also played for South Yorkshire. He joined his hometown club as a YTS trainee and became a full professional in Nov 1993 with 10 appearances in his first year.

In his Rotherham career Ian played 132 times, scoring 6 goals, with the highlight being the Millers winning visit to Wembley in the Auto Windscreens Shield. However, he was out of contract in the summer of 1997 and joined Chesterfield for a fee of £100,000. At the start of 1997-98 Ian was behind Darren Carr in the pecking order but an early-season injury to Carr gave Ian his chance and he has been an automatic choice ever since.                                         

Up to the end of 2001-02 Ian had appeared over 200 League appearances for the Spireites with 8 goals. Most of those appearances have been in central defence but he was used to great effect at right back for part of 2000-01 with a superb goal against York City in the opening match of the Spireites successful promotion season.