Danny boy

[Kingleicester]

https://www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/11095/12187503/danny-simpson-interview-leicester-city-favourite-on-his-search-for-a-new-club
 

The bloke still has a lot of love for Leicester, I’m hoping he finds a club in the next few weeks, he played an absolutely pivotal in that right back role for our title winning season 

Edited 14 January 2021 by Kingleicester

[LC/FC]

Do Leuven need a right back? 😁

[Jacnah]

Danny Simpson, as a stalwart of that team, deserves some consideration, but even so, its nice to hear his positive comments about the club generally. They behave with a strong moral compass and long may it continue. The more I hear the more I'm proud it's 'my' club.

Edited 14 January 2021 by Jacnah

[Kingleicester]

19 minutes ago, Jacnah said:

Danny Simpson, as a stalwart of that team, deserves some consideration, but even so, its nice to hear his positive comments about the club generally. They behave with a strong moral compass and long may it continue. The more I hear the more I'm proud it's 'my' club.

That teams bond must be something special, it’s good of the club letting him train with us to, fair play 

[sacreblueits442]

27 minutes ago, Kingleicester said:

That teams bond must be something special, it’s good of the club letting him train with us to, fair play 

.....not sure if this is normal for professional sportsmen to have such a need to carry on for one more challenge!!!

I know some boxers do not know when to quit and keep coming back unable to say goodbye to the attention or having to change a routine that has been ingrained for years.

 It is now getting to a stage where he needs to find a way to move on,as to what he needs to do in his life in order to fill in the next 30+ years where he can no longer experience the highs he seems to crave and alleviate the seclusion that he is now experiencing in these Covid days and nights.                      

  Without going over the top, he needs to speak to someone to understand why he is feeling this way, he can not rely on football to make him value his worth, when his career is over, where does he get his next buzz.

  Perhaps this is a regular thing for players coming to the end of their careers and something he can work through when he finally hangs up his boots, but I feel there is an obsession there that might be something that overwhelms him and he finds avenues to cope which takes him in the wrong direction.

[Jobyfox]

Great player for us and it speaks volumes of the club that they still look after players who aren't in contract any more. 

 

Good article apart from this bit: "I grew up as a Manchester United fan but when United play Leicester now I want a draw".

 

A draw!!!! Bollocks to that 

[peach0000]

I have very mixed feelings regarding Simpson. As a sportsman and what he achieved at Leicester there's no questioning the respect he should have. However this is very much overshadowed for me by his personal life which should not be forgotten. I personally am still some what surprised and saddened that the club gave him the platform they did as a role model everything considered.

[Freeman's Wharfer]

He’s got Salford or Leuven written all over him for that one more thing to achieve!

[AmyLGK]

7 hours ago, peach0000 said:

I have very mixed feelings regarding Simpson. As a sportsman and what he achieved at Leicester there's no questioning the respect he should have. However this is very much overshadowed for me by his personal life which should not be forgotten. I personally am still some what surprised and saddened that the club gave him the platform they did as a role model everything considered.

Very much this. I found it confusing and uncomfortable that he was simply allowed to carry on playing. I can't remember what the club statement was at the time, does any remember?

 

Having just reminded myself of what happened and read news articles it seems he always denied the assault, so there was no remorse? Not a good role model really. Vardy on the other hand handled his issues well, by admitting that whilst he was nieve and not aware of the meaning of his slur, it is no excuse and actively sought to educate himself. 

 

Im absolutely guilty of forgetting what Simo did and hailing him a hero. But until he admits what he did was wrong, we can't say he's been rehabilitated and maybe he doesn't deserve another chance! Yet!

 

It all makes me very sad 😥 

 

[Buce]

8 hours ago, peach0000 said:

I have very mixed feelings regarding Simpson. As a sportsman and what he achieved at Leicester there's no questioning the respect he should have. However this is very much overshadowed for me by his personal life which should not be forgotten. I personally am still some what surprised and saddened that the club gave him the platform they did as a role model everything considered.

 

11 minutes ago, AmyLGK said:

Very much this. I found it confusing and uncomfortable that he was simply allowed to carry on playing. I can't remember what the club statement was at the time, does any remember?

 

Having just reminded myself of what happened and read news articles it seems he always denied the assault, so there was no remorse? Not a good role model really. Vardy on the other hand handled his issues well, by admitting that whilst he was nieve and not aware of the meaning of his slur, it is no excuse and actively sought to educate himself. 

 

Im absolutely guilty of forgetting what Simo did and hailing him a hero. But until he admits what he did was wrong, we can't say he's been rehabilitated and maybe he doesn't deserve another chance! Yet!

 

It all makes me very sad 😥 

 

 

He was dealt with by the law - would you have liked to see him punished twice for the same crime?

 

He stepped up and changed his life around, and he deserves his legendary status just like the others.

[AKCJ]

Joining Leicester is the best thing to happen to him as a person. Obviously as a player it was considering he won the league with us but it really seemed as though over the span of his time at Leicester he's really grown up.

 

Goes without saying that his off the field issues were desperately bad and we probably ought not to have signed him in the first place. But he seemed to knuckle down and it felt like Big Wes got an arm around him.

 

I think had he not had the past that he had that he would have been on the plane to Euro 2016 ahead of Nathaniel Clyne.

[shen]

11 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

 

He was dealt with by the law - would you have liked to see him punished twice for the same crime?

 

He stepped up and changed his life around, and he deserves his legendary status just like the others.

Well that's the dilemma with convicted people, right? The nature of the crime means a few fans will struggle to regain trust in him. Look at how Ched Evans, Adam Johnson and Dennis Wise are viewed, still to this day.

Edited 15 January 2021 by shen

[AmyLGK]

10 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

 

He was dealt with by the law - would you have liked to see him punished twice for the same crime?

 

He stepped up and changed his life around, and he deserves his legendary status just like the others.

The issue I have is he never admitted he did anything wrong. Being "dealt with by the law" is the punishment,  but rehabilitation is a personal journey I don't know that he's gone through. Personal as in only he can make a mends for what he did, not that it should be out of the public eye. As a role model, as his football talent and hard work are on show for all to see and aspire to achieve, so should how he responds to and handles mistakes made, so the kids can see that yes people do make mistakes but we can learn from them and use them to be better people. 

[Fox92]

10 hours ago, peach0000 said:

I have very mixed feelings regarding Simpson. As a sportsman and what he achieved at Leicester there's no questioning the respect he should have. However this is very much overshadowed for me by his personal life which should not be forgotten. I personally am still some what surprised and saddened that the club gave him the platform they did as a role model everything considered.

The two aren't joined. That was his personal life and we can enjoy him as a footballer. The police dealt with the situation. What do you feel towards Vardy when he got caught shouting a racist slur in a public place? 

Edited 15 January 2021 by Fox92
Typo...

[suffolk fox]

6 minutes ago, shen said:

Well that's the dilemma with convicted people, right? The nature of the crime means a few fans will struggle to regain trust in him. Look at how Ched Evans, Adam Johnson and Dennis Wise are viewed, still to this day.

Ched Evans ,Court of Appeal quashed his rape charge albeit had served 2 years in  prison, he was then found not guilty, at the retrial due to the unreliability of the victim in the said rape case.  

[AjcW]

If Lee Peltier can start games at right back in the Premier League then there's absolutely no reason Danny Simpson can't. 

[Fox92]

10 minutes ago, shen said:

Well that's the dilemma with convicted people, right? The nature of the crime means a few fans will struggle to regain trust in him. Look at how Ched Evans, Adam Johnson and Dennis Wise are viewed, still to this day.

Dennis Wise is a **** for what he did here, that goes without saying, but how are you putting him in the same category as Adam Johnson? 

[AjcW]

I've said many times I felt incredibly uncomfortable when he signed for us and when the incident with his partner happened. But there's so many other things in that article that this thread could focus on now, we've all had that other conversation a million times and none of us can change the outcome.

 

Personally liked this bit...

 

"Jon Rudkin, I cannot speak highly enough of. If you have done well for them, the type of club they are, they will help. There are not many like that. They pick up the phone.”

[RonnieTodger]

I’ve never seen anyone defend the back post so well. 
 

So many crosses looked like they were going to be put away, but he’d always nick in front.

[shen]

14 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Dennis Wise is a **** for what he did here, that goes without saying, but how are you putting him in the same category as Adam Johnson? 

The category is being convicted for quite severe crimes and the point is how the public are still resenting their actions. I didn't equate or compare the crimes of these guys.

[shen]

21 minutes ago, suffolk fox said:

Ched Evans ,Court of Appeal quashed his rape charge albeit had served 2 years in  prison, he was then found not guilty, at the retrial due to the unreliability of the victim in the said rape case.  

Fair play, I did not know that. I just went off my memory of convicted footballers, but didn't know he was found not guilty.

[CosbehFox]

21 minutes ago, suffolk fox said:

Ched Evans ,Court of Appeal quashed his rape charge albeit had served 2 years in  prison, he was then found not guilty, at the retrial due to the unreliability of the victim in the said rape case.  

Without wishing to veer this thread off topic, the details of what Evans did are absolutely horrific. The rape verdict was inconclusive but the scenario and situation which occurred define Evans as a total willy puller 

[nnfox]

9 hours ago, peach0000 said:

I have very mixed feelings regarding Simpson. As a sportsman and what he achieved at Leicester there's no questioning the respect he should have. However this is very much overshadowed for me by his personal life which should not be forgotten. I personally am still some what surprised and saddened that the club gave him the platform they did as a role model everything considered.

When the news broke about his domestic situation, I was disgusted.  As a brand, especially such an inclusive family oriented one, I thought LCFC should have binned him off there and then and we should have distanced ourselves from any association with type of incident.  We didn't do that, and in fact, the family side to the LCFC brand actually looked after him.  Let the authorities do what they have to do and take the punishment, but we didn't throw him on the scrap heap.  Really, it was a defining moment in his career and life, he could have gone either way.  He was looked after though and given the support of the club and fair play to him, he turned it around quite remarkably.  People lead complex lives and when we look in from the outside, it's very easy to judge. Everyone makes mistakes, but you don't have to carry on making mistakes.

 

Hindsight shows that I was wrong in my initial reaction and I'm glad that it turned out well.  He was the perfect square peg in a square hole in that team, a vital contributor to our success.

[foxfanazer]

1 hour ago, Fox92 said:

The two aren't joined. That was his personal life and we can enjoy him as a footballer. The police dealt with the situation. What do you feel towards Vardy when he got caught shouting a racist slut in a public place? 

A racist slut? What a typo

[RowlattsFox]

None of us have any idea about his ability now but surely someone needs him. Wage demands too high or wants a team near where he lives? Obviously the fact he's been or is injured hasn't helped.