Paul Simpson (footballer)

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Paul Simpson
Personal information
Full name Paul David Simpson
Date of birth 26 July 1966 (1966-07-26) (age 41)
Place of birth    Carlisle, England
Playing position Winger
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1983–1988
1988–1992
1992–1997
1996
1997–2000
1998
2000–2002
2002–2003
2003–2006
 Manchester City
Oxford United
Derby County
Sheffield United (loan)
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Walsall (loan)
Blackpool
Rochdale
Carlisle United
Total		 121 0(18)
144 0(43)
186 0(48)
006 00(0)
052 00(6)
010 00(0)
076 0(13)
042 0(15)
036 00(6)
673 (150)   
National team
1986-1987 England U21 005 00(1)
Teams managed
2002–2003
2003–2006
2006–2007
2008–		 Rochdale
Carlisle United
Preston North End
Shrewsbury Town

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

Paul David Simpson (born 26 July 1966 in Carlisle) is an English former footballer who is currently the manager of Shrewsbury Town.

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[edit] Playing career

Simpson had playing spells at Manchester City, Oxford United, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Derby County, where he captained the team to promotion to the Premier League, as well as loan spells at Sheffield United, Walsall,Blackpool and Rochdale, where he was the clubs player-manager, and finally three years at Carlisle United where he eventually retired after a cameo appearance against Stockport County on 6 May, 2006.

[edit] International career

Simpson represented England at under 21 level.[citation needed]

[edit] Managerial career

Simpson took over as manager of Carlisle United five games into the 2003/04 season after the sacking of Roddy Collins. A transfer embargo prevented new players being brought in and by December Carlisle were 15 points adrift, resulting in relegation to the Conference National despite an improved latter half of the season. They gained immediate promotion in the 2004-05 season back to the Football League, winning the Conference National Playoff Final despite the Carlisle floods and a catalogue of other problems. A second successive promotion to Football League One followed when he steered the club to the Football League Two Championship in the 2005-06 season. He was also named as the League Two Manager of the Year and in the League Managers Association statistics was the best manager in the country on points per game above Sir Alex Ferguson.[citation needed]

In June 2006. Simpson replaced Billy Davies as manager of Preston North End and led the Lancashire side to the top of the Championship by December, their highest league placing for 55 years. However, from March 2007 the club went on an alarming slide down the league. This happened even after holding on to David Nugent in the transfer window and Simpson being allowed to bring in numerous loan signings, the club failed to make the end-of-season play-offs, finishing in 7th place.

After losing only one key player David Nugent and bringing in key players for over £3m (Carter, Nicholls, Hawley, Jones) to reshape the team they continued on their poor run. The team did not recover and after a bad start to the 2007-08 season which saw Preston pick up just 3 victories Simpson was sacked on 13th November 2007; since then the club recovered their position after the appointment of new manager Alan Irvine and a winning run saw them avoid relegation from the Championship. Simpson never had a good relationship with the Preston supporters and even blamed them for the bad run of form before turning on the match day announcer and blaming the team's poor performance on his choice of pre match music.

On 12 March 2008, he was appointed manager of Football League Two club, Shrewsbury Town replacing Gary Peters who left Shrewsbury by mutual consent after a poor run of results.

[edit] Honours

[edit] As a player

Derby County

Blackpool

[edit] As a manager

Carlisle United

On March 12th 2008 Paul Simpson was appointed the manager of league two club Shrewsbury Town FC with an aim to propell them up the league to the Championship.

[edit] Managerial statistics

As of 12 March 2008.
Team Nat From To Record
G W L D Win %
Rochdale Flag of England May 29, 2002 May 7, 2003 54 16 21 17 29.62
Carlisle United Flag of England August 29, 2003 June 16, 2006 157 70 50 37 44.58
Preston North End Flag of England June 17, 2006 November 13, 2007 58 25 23 10 43.10
Shrewsbury Town F.C. Flag of England March 12, 2008 - 0 0 0 0 0.00

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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Carlisle United F.C. – Managers

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(c) caretaker (d) director of coaching (s) secretary-manager
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Preston North End F.C. – Managers

Parker (1906–15) • Hayes (1919–23) • Lawrence (1923–25) • Richards (1925–27) • Gibson (1927–31) • Hayes (1931–32) • Muirhead (1936–37) • Scott (1949–53) • Symon (1953–54) • Hill (1954–56) • Britton (1956–61) • Milne (1961–68) • Seith (1968–70) • Ball (1970–73) • Charlton (1973–75) • Catterick (1975–77) • Stiles (1977–81) • Docherty (1981) • Kelly (1981) • Lee (1981–83) • Kelly (1983–85) • Booth (1985–86) • Kidd (1986) • McGrath (1986–90) • Chapman (1990–92) • Beck (1992–94) • Peters (1994–98) • Moyes (1998–2002) • O'Hanlon (2002) • Brown (2002–04) • Davies (2004–06) • Simpson (2006–07) • Irvine (2007–)
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Shrewsbury Town F.C. – Managers

Adams (1905–12) • Weston (1912–34) • Roscamp (1934–35) • Ramsey (1935–36) • Bousted (1936–40) • Knighton (1945) • Chapman (1949–50) • Crooks (1950–54) • Rowley (1955–57) • Potts (1957–58) • Spuhler (1958) • Rowley (1958–68) • Gregg (1968–72) • Evans (1972–74) • Durban (1974–78) • Barker (1978) • Turner (1978–84) • Bates (1984–87) • Brown (1987) • McNeill (1987–90) • Hartford (1990–91) • Bond (1991–93) • Davies (1993–97) • King (1997–99) • Bates (1999) • Ratcliffe (1999–2003) • Atkins (2003) • Quinn (2003–04) • Bates (2004) • Peters (2004–08) • McMahon (2008) • Simpson (2008–)
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Shrewsbury Town F.C. – current squad

1 Garner • 2 Moss • 5 Kempson • 6 Hunt • 7 Pugh • 8 Langmead • 9 Hibbert • 10 Constable • 12 Herd • 14 Davies • 17 Humphrey • 18 Leslie • 19 Madjo • 21 Bevan • 23 Tierney • 28 McIntyre • 33 Meredith • –– Hindmarch • –– Murray • Manager: Simpson