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ElusiveEd

Danny Simpson's Struggles

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5 minutes ago, phoneticerror said:

Got any good news this morning mate? 

Incoming - We are re-signing Ryan Bertrand on a 5 year contract  :jump:

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Looking forward to @ElusiveEd lunchtime post "Sergio Hellings found eating out of bins in Amsterdam's red light district"

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1 hour ago, phoneticerror said:

Got any good news this morning mate? 

Your wife says she will be heading home after she's had a shower.

 

Or is that not good news? :D

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43 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Just a note for those who don't want to click on their article, this happened 4 years ago and he's in a much better place now.

moved out of leicester then?

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Just a note for those who don't want to click on their article, this happened 4 years ago and he's in a much better place now.

The. That's good to hear.

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After life, the sporting short life, rugby players seem to adapt a lot better then football players. Maybe its an education thing as Rugby tends to be a posh boy game with the former players more capable of going on to have successful companies or careers. For less academically gifted footballers with no prospect in punditry then it is easy to see how they can get lost in their late 30's without a stable family behind them. It only goes to prove money isn't the pathway to happiness, though we know a lack of it is a cert for misery. 

The football league or the PFA players union needs to do more for its retired members. Retiring executives get sent on gardening leave courses to prepare them for a dramatic life change from being centre stage important to irrelevant in but a brief moment.

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1 hour ago, Lionator said:

Just a note for those who don't want to click on their article, this happened 4 years ago and he's in a much better place now.

At least drinkwater is getting some minutes 

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52 minutes ago, Babylon said:

It's a massive issue with sportsmen, you dedicate your entire life to something and it ends for many without any real path for them afterwards. 


 

 I remember reading about the health struggles Frank Bruno had. He felt so lost at one stage he would sleep in a boxing ring. It’s the only place he felt safe. :(

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1 hour ago, Babylon said:

It's a massive issue with sportsmen, you dedicate your entire life to something and it ends for many without any real path for them afterwards. 

 

30 minutes ago, Bazly said:

After life, the sporting short life, rugby players seem to adapt a lot better then football players. Maybe its an education thing as Rugby tends to be a posh boy game with the former players more capable of going on to have successful companies or careers. For less academically gifted footballers with no prospect in punditry then it is easy to see how they can get lost in their late 30's without a stable family behind them. It only goes to prove money isn't the pathway to happiness, though we know a lack of it is a cert for misery. 

The football league or the PFA players union needs to do more for its retired members. Retiring executives get sent on gardening leave courses to prepare them for a dramatic life change from being centre stage important to irrelevant in but a brief moment.

Also for those that get eventual career-ending injuries before their time

Some ( modern times) are on a good contract.. Others have to rebuild and switch mentality and aptitude..That can take a few years, if one hasn't got an Outlet. Some push on, some fall by the wayside..

Same has our Military servers. 

 

Though since the 80s,there have been organisation's that do help, and sometimes out of ignorance, Machoism,.. etc Individuals don't speak to family, or pick up the Phone...

 

Then the hardest of calls and decisions,

"Get on with life" search, find, fight to find those life's compromises & Journeys.. Many do.!! 

 

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 I remember reading about the health struggles Frank Bruno had. He felt so lost at one stage he would sleep in a boxing ring. It’s the only place he felt safe. :(

 

54 minutes ago, fuchsntf said:

Also for those that get eventual career-ending injuries before their time

I have a relative who was an elite-level sportsman, and his career was cut short. When that happens, they can often struggle more as they wonder what might have been. He went as high as you possibly can and achieved a huge amount, but still, he lost years of his career and has struggled with mental health. 

 

Not only do you lose your career, you often lose friends as you've been hanging around with the other players or people linked with the sport / club most of the time. Find the wrong partner and they often drift away from the glamour ends. Then, you can end up with a nice house and a healthy bank balance but not much else. 

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2 hours ago, Bazly said:

After life, the sporting short life, rugby players seem to adapt a lot better then football players. Maybe its an education thing as Rugby tends to be a posh boy game with the former players more capable of going on to have successful companies or careers. For less academically gifted footballers with no prospect in punditry then it is easy to see how they can get lost in their late 30's without a stable family behind them. It only goes to prove money isn't the pathway to happiness, though we know a lack of it is a cert for misery. 

The football league or the PFA players union needs to do more for its retired members. Retiring executives get sent on gardening leave courses to prepare them for a dramatic life change from being centre stage important to irrelevant in but a brief moment.

Rugby players tend to stay in mainstream education a lot later and the academy system starts a lot later in rugby. You also have thee obvious class divides between the two sports which means rugby players have a bit more money to fall back on. Football clubs are getting better at this sort of stuff but there's still lots of dinosaur's in the game who think that caring about people is 'woke'.

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4 hours ago, Babylon said:

It's a massive issue with sportsmen, you dedicate your entire life to something and it ends for many without any real path for them afterwards. 

A lot of people get these feelings at retirement but the huge difference is that this is happens when you are so young in sport.  It’s such a daunting thought that your trade is over but you’re not even halfway through life.  Not to mention that the highs of what it must feel to play in that type of atmosphere is something that nothing else could replicate. 

 

Hope Danny finds happiness in other passions 

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3 hours ago, Babylon said:

 

I have a relative who was an elite-level sportsman, and his career was cut short. When that happens, they can often struggle more as they wonder what might have been. He went as high as you possibly can and achieved a huge amount, but still, he lost years of his career and has struggled with mental health. 

 

Not only do you lose your career, you often lose friends as you've been hanging around with the other players or people linked with the sport / club most of the time. Find the wrong partner and they often drift away from the glamour ends. Then, you can end up with a nice house and a healthy bank balance but not much else. 

I the old days, one could still slip back into the mainstream.. Plus we didn't have such a split society.. 

 

These last year's, elite or high potential sportsmen/women.. Push themselves to extremes, hard mental routines & training targets, besides the obvious physical necessities for one's chosen sport. One's head gets mighty confused for awhile, still wanting, needing, feeding, routines that your body no longer can keep. Often it's also the small things and details that can grow into burdens. 

 

The explosion of sponsorship, self marketing and management, took away

a lot of "self" not only group and personal trainers, advisors are at your feet... Some of the support & contacts, will stay around, but soulmate are few or non-existent, as mentioned some souls in this split society just haven't anybody understanding to turn to, plus understanding ones demands or needs, but Most do get through.My own experience my own aspirations also taken from under me..

It caught me in that twighlight zone between amateur - proffesional, name doing the rounds, but not quite taken off.. I struggled and often fell into feeling down for some reason of regret, but I luckily had other outlets great GFs, then wife and another aspiration to hold onto. 

 

People are frail but also resolute, especially if they themselves can map their future... 

But today, those sponsors, agents though giving young kids that great chance in life.. ( different levels), just I suppose nature of the beast, the school kids who mature reach various high levels, some with medals & trophies on their sideboards stay in their secure bubble, either career being cut short or come to a natural end, have had the normal, natural process of "thinking" 

allowed to be taken away, because of giving all to those daily  routines. That one pushes to the limit. 

 

It's good recognising the problem and from within and across each sport, there is the support and organisations

to call on today.. It depends how the individual sees his own needs and acts upon it.. 

 

Even though majority, do  go through their natural positive career "endings"  & take up their further life's thread. 

We are not bereth or short of organisation's and support. for those that struggle.. 

 

Government though improved is still failing and tracking our Military-servers.

 

Certain sympathies and understanding all round, but everywhere in our secure

Western world bubble, within and amid our normal folk, through different levels of our society we have, through no fault of their own struggle through their daily-Routine.. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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https://foxesofleicester.com/leicester-pl-title-winner-out-of-retirement-to-play-for-this-club

 

Leicester PL title-winner out of retirement to play for this club
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In the grand, often predictable theatre of English football, few players have navigated a narrative arc as jagged or as storied as Danny Simpson. A graduate of the Manchester United academy, Simpson's career was a nomadic odyssey across the professional landscape, featuring shifts for Royal Antwerp, Sunderland, Ipswich Town, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United.

Yet, it was amidst the blue-hued fervor of Leicester City that the right back secured his immortality. As a vital component of the 2015/16 squad, he helped script the most improbable fairy-tale in sporting history: a 5000-1 odyssey that elevated a band of 'misfits' to the summit of the Premier League.

The Blue Army hold Simpson in high regard, remembering the grit and determination of a right-back who defied the odds. However, his journey was never devoid of shadow; off-field controversies and legal entanglements once threatened to eclipse his defensive industry.

Transitioning into a post-playing life defined by media punditry and mental health advocacy, "Simmo" was seemingly content to let the boots gather dust. All while he dissected the modern game from the warmth of a television studio.

Former Fox's renaissance: Leicester City hero Danny Simpson's unlikely final act
Yet, in a maneuver that has blindsided the pundits, the 39-year-old has eschewed the comfortable silence of retirement for a peculiar appearing return to the pitch. Simpson has officially signed for Stretford Paddock FC, a club birthed from the digital womb of YouTube fan culture.

"And the former Man Utd ace led them to a major 5-3 victory at Project Solar Stadium."
The Sun
It is a striking juxtaposition: a man who once marshaled the backline against the world's elite now finds himself in the grassroots trenches of the Cheshire League. For Simpson, this isn't about the pursuit of silverware or the roar of 30,000 voices: it is a raw, nostalgic homecoming to the turf, proving that for a true champion, the game never truly ends - it simply finds a new, humbler rhythm.

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"It is a striking juxtaposition: a man who once marshaled the backline against the world's elite now finds himself in the grassroots trenches of the Cheshire League." what a rediculous statement. Blokes nearly 40, what do they expect, come out of retirement to play for Real Madrid in the Champions League.

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23 minutes ago, brookfox said:

"It is a striking juxtaposition: a man who once marshaled the backline against the world's elite now finds himself in the grassroots trenches of the Cheshire League." what a rediculous statement. Blokes nearly 40, what do they expect, come out of retirement to play for Real Madrid in the Champions League.

@leicsmac did you write this article?

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