Simpson’s son, Jake, is a performance coach at opponents Stockport. One person close to him has been keeping his distance, though. Simpson has had texts from Gareth Southgate and Steve Holland this week - he knows them from his time at England - while many others from in the game have been in touch. I learned how coaches can use coding to watch matches.’ ‘At England I was fortunate that I was only in camp for about 54 days of the year so I had a lot of time to review, prepare and reeducate myself. The same person who is called rubbish and gets sacked is the same person who is called great with success. ‘From my life in football, I have learned you have to take the rough with the smooth and I’ve become battle hardened from being sacked. ![]() He is not the media perception he is a fantastic coach and great person. ‘My years away from Carlisle have educated me and I learned a hell of a lot under Steve McClaren. The 56-year-old gritted his teeth in No 2 roles - under Steve McClaren at Derby and Newcastle Simpson took a slightly different route and also managed Stockport, but mainly gritted his teeth in assistant roles - under Steve McClaren at Derby and Newcastle - then won the U20 World Cup in South Korea in an England squad starring Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Fikayo Tomori. Find a manager in England with a better c.v. After that, he led Hartlepool then Stockport to the Football League. Both managers have walked the not-so-trodden path of working their way from semi-professional clubs to the big time.īoth managers, Simpson and Dave Challinor, have spent time in the nether regions of English football, such as Northwich Victoria and Colwyn Bay.īoth had respectable playing careers but had to fight for everything good in their managerial life, seldom being handed anything on a plate.Ĭhallinor, for example, won promotion at Colwyn Bay before guiding AFC Fylde from the eighth to fifth tier of our pyramid, plus an FA Trophy. The League Two final might not have the romance of Luton’s clash with Coventry, or the big-club factor of Sheffield Wednesday in League One, but Carlisle versus Stockport is an ode to everything great about our sacred football pyramid. Uniting Carlisle and the fans is enormous, my biggest achievement here.’ ![]() ‘What I’m most pleased with is not the fact we’ve got to Wembley, it’s the response from the local community. Simpson took Carlisle from the Conference to League One as a player-manager in back-to-back promotions back in the mid-2000s
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