==Career=====Manchester United===Eckersley made his first appearance for Manchester United in February 2004, when he played for the under-17 side as a 14-year-old against Manchester City.
Njegovo tirnico je izračunal Johann Franz Encke, ki je znal povezati pojave kometov v letih 1786 (oznaka 2P/1786 B1), 1795 (oznaka 2P/1795 V1), 1805 (oznaka 2P/1805 U1) in 1818 (oznaka 2P/1818 W1) in pri tem ugotovil, da je to isto nebesno telo.