Leicester hero says team was still hungover from two days before in Chelsea win
Leicester hero Danny Simpson says he and his team-mates partied so hard during their title-winning campaign that they were often hungover during matches.
The Foxes, who suffered an FA Cup embarrassment on Tuesday night losing 2-1 at home in their fifth-round tie to Championship Blackburn, achieved the unthinkable in 2016 by becoming the world’s first (and most likely last) 5000-1 champions, winning the league 12 months after avoiding relegation by the skin of their teeth.
The championship was sealed when title-rivals Tottenham were held at Stamford Bridge by Chelsea, with a late Eden Hazard stunner sealing a 2-2 draw, and the entire Leicester squad gathered round Jamie Vardy’s house to watch it.
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Speaking on the Under The Cosh podcast, Simpson said Leicester behaved like a “pub team” throughout the season, and didn’t let the prospect of an unfathomable title win get in the way of their “team-bonding” nights out.
“We weren’t just the best team in the Prem that year, we were the best pub team in the world,” he said. “We’d go out together [regularly].
“I remember a night out a couple days before a Chelsea game. We won 2-1. I remember there was 10 minutes to go and I’m looking at Wes [Morgan] and I was like, ‘mate, I’m f*****’, because we were still hungover.”
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Simpson was left out of Claudio Ranieri’s side at the start of the campaign and was even told to train with the U23s for a period, something he feels was an intentional ploy to push him out of the club, but he eventually won the Italian over and was more or less ever-present in the first team from October onwards.
The Manchester United academy graduate remained at the King Power Stadium for another two-and-a-half seasons, and featured heavily in the team’s Champions League campaign in 2016/17.
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He left the club in January 2019, shortly after the arrival of Ricardo Pereira, who took Simpson’s place at right back, and moved to Huddersfield, before later seeing out the remainder of his career at Bristol City.
The 36-year-old has been without a club since the end of the 2021/22 season, but insists he hasn’t retired and hopes to find a new team, despite not having kicked a football in nearly a year. Probably best to ease up on the ‘hungover while playing’ stories then. Eh, Danny?
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