Paul Simpson

Remember Him coming down to Fog Lane Park and taking training with my team at Beaver Road school 35 years ago! He gave us a load of JD sports key rings. Has a great career in the game. I hope he fights it well and is healthy again soon.
 
Sky Blue Thinking said:
Had a loan spell at Finn Harps before becoming the hero of the '85 promotion run in. Hope treatment goes well and he beats this bastard of a disease.
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Yep, Simmo and John Beresford (a young central midfielder at City but later a decent full back for Keegan’s Newcastle) were sent to Finn Harps in Donegal for a few months. I think they might have been managed or coached at the time by someone McNeill knew from his time at Celtic
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
All the best Paul. Great memories of Pompey away Charlton and Huddersfield.
He was also manager of England U17's with Phil Foden who won the world cup

Hoping for a speedy and successful recovery.
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He was under 20s manager who won the World Cup the same year. This is an odd one as UEFA comps were usually under 21 and FIFA had the Under 20s, and players were not neccesarily released for the under 20s so Foden never played for him.
 
Always came across as a very down to earth player who had time for the fans
 
Remember the Blackburn promotion game and seeing him walking down the hill towards the stadium, there was just a rolling chant of One Paul Simpson as he passed the hundreds of blues making their way to the ground, must have been a cracking buzz for him.

Best wishes Paul, you're a fighter and you can beat this bastard.
 
Very good, skilful winger on his day(tormented the 'Udders 'defence in the 10:1). Would liked to have seen him at City for longer really but can hardly have been the most 'settled' of places to be,, at our Gaff in those days!
Was at that Coventry game at Maine Road in 82(we started that season reasonably well didn't we before it went totally tits up!).
As mentioned he seemed to 'disappear' for a while and reappeared for the 85 promotion run in (we certainly knew how to celebrate goals in those days) Was as the Pompey match, really big win as I think they ended up just missing out on Promotion in the end?
Horrible, horrible disease. Hopefully the fact he is still relatively young and certainly seems otherwise pretty fit helps him in fighting it.
 
Oh man I hadn’t heard about this. He’ll always be one of the first people who spring to mind when thoughts drift back to that glorious baking hot day at Maine Road in May 1985. Seen him several times on telly over the years and he always comes across as an absolutely top bloke.

Good luck Simmo.
 
Get better soon, Paul.

He was my absolute hero when I first went watching City. I can clearly remember watching him score against Blackburn Rovers in my first ever game on 21st January 1984 from the Kippax. My brother had told me at the start of the game that Simpson would score; he did and it was like magic to the 5 year-old me.
 
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Uwe was touched by all the good wishes of City fans as he beat cancer. How do you let Simmo know we're still rooting for him?
 
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