Tim started his career as an apprentice at Luton Town. He eventually graduated to the first team where he had a long and successful spell accumulating in 210 appearances. From Luton he transferred to West Ham for £600,000. He spent nine years at Upton Park and was the first choice right-back for most of the 1990s again playing over 200 league games. Breacker finished his long playing career with two seasons at Queens Park Rangers .
On November 29th 2007 Tim became the assistant manager at Leicester City after following Ian Holloway from Plymouth Argyle where he was also Assistant manager to the Walkers Stadium. He left Leicester by Mutual consent on July 1 2008 after Nigel Pearson had taken charge at the club.