Career
He played for Stoke City, Sunderland, Everton, Newcastle United and Fulham. He also played for England national team and was manager of Fulham and Halifax Town. On 22nd October 2015 he was appointed Assistant Manager of Sunderland A.F.C
Bracewell started his football career with Stoke City progressing through the youth ranks at the Victoria Ground and made his professional debut against away at Wolverhampton Wanderers just before his 18th birthday.
He soon became a regular in the first team and went on to complete three full seasons before in June 1983 he moved to Sunderland for a fee of £250,000 linking up with Alan Durban.
He made 141 appearances for Stoke scoring six goals. Sunderland had an unsuccessful 1983-1984 season and Durban was sacked by the Roker Park club and new manager Len Ashurst did not believe Bracewell could play for him and so sold him to Everton for £425,000.
lieutenant was at Goodison Park where Bracewell enjoyed the most successful spell of his career. Unable to keep down a place in the years that followed, Bracewell reunited with his former Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan at Fulham in 1997.
He retired from playing football in 1999 to take up a Managerial role at Fulham.
In 1985 he earned three England caps. In September 1997, Bracewell took a similar role with ambitious Division Two club Fulham, working under head coach Ray Wilkins and director of football Kevin Keegan. When Wilkins was dismissed at the end of the season, Keegan took sole charge of the first team and kept Bracewell as his assistant.
Keegan accepted the offer to become England national football team manager in March 1999, but remained in charge of the Fulham team until the end of that season, guiding them to the Division Two title with 101 points, before quitting as Fulham manager.
In October 2000 he became manager of Halifax Town although his stint there lasted less than a year. He resigned from the club 4 games into the 2001/02 season.
During his brief spell in charge he steered to the team to just 11 wins in 41 games, which included a 2–0 home FA cup exit at the hands of non league Gateshead. In 2013 he was appointed as Development Coach for the Sunderland Under 21s and 18s and helped with the transition between the two.
In June 2015, after assisting Dick Advocaat with first team duties at the end of the 2014-2015 season, he was appointed First Team Coach at Sunderland.
On 22nd October 2015 Sunderland promoted him to the role of Assistant Manager.