Simon Lappin

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Personal information
Simon Lappin
Full name	Simon Lappin
Date of birth	January 25, 1983 (1983-01-25) (age 25)
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position	Full-back / Winger
Club information
Current club	Norwich City
Number	?
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1999–2007 2007– 2008	St Mirren Norwich City → Motherwell (loan)	152 (9) 018 (2) 010 (2)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:09, 6 April 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Simon Lappin (born 25 January 1983) is a Scottish professional footballer, currently playing for Motherwell, on loan from Football League Championship club Norwich City. He has been capped by Scotland U-21s.

Lappin signed for Norwich City from St Mirren on 31 January 2007, for a fee of £100,000, signing a two and a half year deal.^[1] Lappin made his debut for Norwich on 3 February 2007 at Carrow Road in a 2-1 win against Leeds. He gave a largely impressive display at left full-back which earned him the official sponsor's Man of the Match award. Lappin scored his first goal for Norwich against Luton Town on 27 February 2007. City were awarded a free-kick in the 90th minute of the game at Kenilworth Road, with the scores level at 2-2, when Lappin curled in a superb goal.

He played in most of Norwich City's games under Peter Grant in the 2007-08 season but when new manager Glenn Roeder came in he found himself out of favour after a 3-0 defeat to Plymouth and was also one of six players criticised by Roeder after a 5-1 reserves defeat to Ipswich.

Consequently he joined Motherwell on loan for the rest of the season on 31 January 2008.^[2] On 5 April 2008 he scored Motherwell's goal in a 1-0 win against Celtic at Celtic Park.

[edit] References

^ "Norwich net Lappin from St Mirren", BBC Sport, 2007-01-31. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
^ Norwich loan Lappin to Motherwell BBC Sport 31 January, 2008

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Simon Lappin career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Motherwell F.C. – current squad

1 G. Smith • 3 Hammell • 4 Reynolds • 5 Craigan • 6 McLean • 7 Hughes • 9 Porter • 11 McCormack • 12 Clarkson • 14 Lasley • 16 Fitzpatrick • 17 Malcolm • 18 McGarry • 20 Meldrum • 22 Quinn • 23 D. Smith • 24 Grehan • 26 Connolly • 27 Maguire • 28 Forbes • 29 Nixon • 31 Murray • 32 J. Murphy • 33 Archdeacon • Manager: McGhee