Ronnie Simpson

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Ronnie Simpson
Personal information
Full name Ronald Campbell Simpson
Date of birth 11 October 1930(1930-10-11)
Place of birth    Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death    19 April 2004 (aged 73)
Place of death    Glasgow, Scotland
Playing position Goalkeeper
Senior career1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1946–1950
1950–1951
1951–1960
1960–1964
1964–1970		 Queens Park
Third Lanark
Newcastle United
Hibernian
Celtic
Total		 078 (0)
021 (0)
262 (0)
123 (0)
118 (0)
602 (0)   
National team
1953–1957
1967–1968		 Scotland B
Scotland		 002 (0)
005 (0)
Teams managed
1971–1972 Hamilton Academical

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Ronald "Ronnie" Campbell Simpson (11 October 1930 — 19 April 2004) was a Scottish football (soccer) goalkeeper.

He is mainly remembered for his time with Celtic, where he was one of the Lisbon Lions, the first British team to win the European Cup in 1967. Although having little to do during the match, his fancy footwork when dealing with a backpass was one of the highlights of the match.In 2002 he was in Celtics Greatest ever team and beat Patrick Bonner to the best Celtic Goalkeeper ever.

Before this, he played for Queen's Park, Third Lanark, Newcastle United (where he won the FA Cup twice after taking over as Newcastle's regular goalkeeper from Jack Fairbrother) and Hibernian. Thought to be in the last throes of his career, he was transferred to Celtic in 1965 as cover for John Fallon. Simpson's anticipation, handling and maintaining his concentration during long periods of inactivity, made him an ideal goalkeeper for the attack-minded Celtic; and he soon won the Celtic number one place from Fallon.

He also played for the Scotland national football team, in particular when they beat England 3-2 in 1967, which was Simpson's international debut at the age of 36.

Simpson's father Jimmy Simpson also played for Scotland, and enjoyed notable success as a centre-half for Rangers and Dundee United in the 1930s.

After he retired as a player, he was manager of Hamilton Academical for a year. He also served on the pools panel, which guessed results of postponed matches in periods of exceptionally bad weather.

He died on 19 April 2004, from a heart attack.

[edit] Honours

[edit] As a player

Newcastle United

Celtic

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SFWA Footballer of the Year
1965: McNeill | 1966: Greig | 1967: Simpson | 1968: Wallace | 1969: Murdoch | 1970: Stanton | 1971: Buchan | 1972: Smith | 1973: Connelly | 1974: Scotland | 1975: Jardine | 1976: Greig | 1977: McGrain | 1978: Johnstone | 1979: Ritchie | 1980: Strachan | 1981: Rough | 1982: Sturrock | 1983: Nicholas | 1984: Miller | 1985: McAlpine | 1986: Jardine | 1987: McClair | 1988: McStay | 1989: Gough | 1990: McLeish | 1991: Malpas | 1992: McCoist | 1993: Goram | 1994: Hateley | 1995: Laudrup | 1996: Gascoigne | 1997: Laudrup | 1998: Burley | 1999: Larsson | 2000: Ferguson | 2001: Larsson | 2002: Lambert | 2003: Ferguson | 2004: McNamara | 2005: Hartson | 2006: Gordon | 2007: Nakamura | 2008: Cuéllar | 2009: Caldwell
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Hamilton Academical F.C. – Managers

Raisbeck (1914–22) · Buchanon (1922–23) · Duncan (1923–25) · McAndrew (1925–46) · McStay (1946–51) · Wylie (1951–53) · Cox (1953–56) · Lowe (1956–59) · Paton (1959–68) · Crines (1968–69) · Lamont (1969) · Ewing (1969–70) · Shearer (1970–71) · Simpson (1971–72) · Lamont (1972) · Smith (1972–78) · McParland (1978–82) · Blackley (1982–83) · Auld (1983–84) · Lambie (1984–88) · Dempsey (1988–89) · G. Miller (1989) · Lambie (1989–90) · G. Miller (1990) · McLaren (1990–92) · Munro (1992–96) · Clark (1996–99) · C. Miller (1990–00) · Dawson (2000–02) · Hillcoat (2002–03) · Maitland (2003–05) · Reid (2005) ·


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