Following a successful loan spell at Glenavon,[7] he went on to play in the Football League with Fulham, Brentford and Brighton & Hove Albion, making a total of 134 appearances.

[9] He will always be remembered for two feats with the Seagulls – scoring a hat-trick in Albion's first ever competitive match at Withdean Stadium, when they beat Mansfield Town 6–0, and scoring the first English football league goal of the new millennium when he netted in an early kick-off against Exeter City on January 3, 2000.

[16] His final ever appearance was from the bench in a Sussex Senior Challenge Cup tie at Horsham on 26 November 2013.

[17] Freeman was appointed sole manager of Whitehawk in May 2010,[18] having previously been joint-manager of the club alongside George Parris since May 2009.

[25] Freeman left Lewes in October 2019 to take up a full-time role with the SportsTotal agency with his former teammate at Brentford, Dirk Hebel.