Career
Fairweather began his career in Non-League football with Dulwich Hamlet, Bromley and Tooting & Mitcham United where his performances attracted the attentions of Wimbledon. He signed for the Dons in 1984 and made his debut on New Years Day 1985 against Oldham Athletic. Early in his career at the club he had loan spells at Porin Pallotoverit and Koparit in Finland before establishing himself as a regular in the Wimbledon side.
His best season was the 1986-1987 campaign, where he played 23 times in the league and scored eight goals in their first campaign as a First Division club, finishing an impressive sixth and actually leading the table in early September.
By the end of his time at Wimbledon, he had become the club"s "forgotten man", failing to make a single league appearance in his final season and played just 11 times collectively in the two seasons before that. He signed for Carlisle United in 1993 after falling out of favour at Wimbledon.
He left Carlisle after only 12 league appearances (1 goal) to transfer to Golden F.C. He moved to American soccer in 1996 with New York Fever, before going on to represent Greek Americans Soccer Club and Connecticut Wolves. After retirement Fairweather returned to Wimbledon as a full-time coach in the club"s youth academy and managed both the Under-17 and Under-18 teams before being promoted to Reserve team manager.
He left Wimbledon to take over as Reserve team manager at Crystal Palace before taking up a position as a community coach with Sunderland A.F.C. and working as a coach at Sunderland High School.
In addition he has also coached as part of the United States Olympic Development Programme. He has also played for the "masters" team representing AFC Wimbledon.
In December 2014, Fairweather was appointed head coach of newly-promoted FA Forest, Snow and Landscape 1 club Sunderland Ladies.