Ronald Campbell Simpson was a Scottish football player and coach.
19 Facts About Ronnie Simpson
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Ronnie Simpson is mainly remembered for his time with Celtic, where he was the goalkeeper in the Lisbon Lions team that won the European Cup in 1967.
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Ronnie Simpson played for Queen's Park, Third Lanark and Hibernian.
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Ronnie Simpson represented Great Britain in the 1948 Olympics, but was not selected for Scotland until 1967.
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Ronnie Simpson started his senior career with amateur club Queen's Park; he was selected by their first team in 1945, aged just 14 years and 304 days.
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Ronnie Simpson was 15 when he made his first Scottish Football League appearance in August 1946.
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Ronnie Simpson won the FA Cup twice with Newcastle, after taking over as their regular goalkeeper from Jack Fairbrother, in 1952 and 1955.
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Ronnie Simpson's performances helped to save Hibs from relegation in 1962, but he fell out of favour under the management of Jock Stein due to his attitude in training.
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Apart from an early save with his knees from a Sandro Mazzola header, Ronnie Simpson had little to do during the match.
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Ronnie Simpson represented the Scotland Youth side in a match against England Youth played on 25 October 1947 at Belle Vue, Doncaster.
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Ronnie Simpson was selected by Matt Busby to play for the Great Britain squad in the 1948 Olympics.
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Ronnie Simpson set a new record for being the oldest player to make his Scotland debut, aged 36 years and 196 days.
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Ronnie Simpson won five full caps in total, alongside the Youth and B international caps won earlier in his career.
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Ronnie Simpson compensated for this with an unorthodox style of shot-stopping, using his elbows and shoulders to block shots.
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Ronnie Simpson had top-class foot movement and ball distribution skills.
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Ronnie Simpson served on the Pools Panel, which adjudicated on results of postponed matches in periods of exceptionally bad weather.
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Ronnie Simpson was a Progressives Councillor on Edinburgh City Council in the 1970s.
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In 2002, Ronnie Simpson was named in Celtic's greatest ever team, ahead of John Thomson and Pat Bonner.
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Ronnie Simpson was posthumously inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in November 2011.