Simon Lappin: Difference between revisions
D.Huckerby6 (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
|||
| Line 45: | Line 45: | ||
| date = 2009-06-29 |
| date = 2009-06-29 |
||
| accessdate = 2009-06-29}}</ref> |
| accessdate = 2009-06-29}}</ref> |
||
== Songs == |
|||
"Simon Lappin, King of Spain, King of Spain, King of Spain, Simon Lappin, King of Spain, He Looks Spanish." |
|||
==Honours== |
==Honours== |
||
Revision as of 23:02, 31 January 2010
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Simon Lappin | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Norwich City | ||
| Number | 19 | ||
| ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16:30, 1 February 2009 (UTC) | |||
Simon Lappin (born 25 January 1983) is a Scottish professional footballer, currently playing for League One club Norwich City. He was capped 10 times by the Scotland national under-21 football team.
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 at Carrow Road in a 2–1 win against Leeds United, in which he earned the official sponsor's Man of the Match award. Lappin then scored his first goal for Norwich against Luton Town on 27 February. 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 match-winning goal.
He played in most of Norwich City's games under Peter Grant in the 2007–08 season, but when Grant was replaced by Glenn Roeder, Lappin found himself out of favour after a 3–0 defeat to Plymouth Argyle. Lappin was one of six players criticised by Roeder after a 5–1 reserves defeat to Ipswich Town.
Lappin was loaned to Motherwell for the rest of the 2007–08 season on 31 January.[2] During this spell he scored Motherwell's goal in a 1–0 win against Celtic at Celtic Park.
Somewhat surprisingly, Lappin remained at Norwich through the following summer. Despite the club's poor start to the 2008–09 season, he still failed to get near the first team, even being made to train with the youths by then manager Roeder.[3] After Bryan Gunn's appointment as Norwich manager, Lappin made his first appearance for Norwich's first team in 16 months on 21 March 2009 (since the aforementioned defeat to Plymouth), in a 1–1 draw against Birmingham City at St Andrew's. He was, however, unable to prevent the club being relegated to League One.
On 29 June 2009, it was announced that Lappin had signed a new two-year contract with the club. [4]
Songs
"Simon Lappin, King of Spain, King of Spain, King of Spain, Simon Lappin, King of Spain, He Looks Spanish."
Honours
With St. Mirren:
Template:Sport honours Template:Sport honours
References
- ^ "Norwich net Lappin from St Mirren". BBC Sport. 2007-01-31. Retrieved 2007-04-29.
- ^ Norwich loan Lappin to Motherwell, BBC Sport, 31 January 2008.
- ^ "'Forgotten men' back in spotlight". Advertiser 24. 2009-03-17. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
- ^ "Lappin signs new City contract". Norwich City F.C. 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
External links
- Simon Lappin player profile at canaries.co.uk
- Simon Lappin at Soccerbase
  | This biographical article related to a Scottish midfielder is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 1983 births
- Football (soccer) midfielders
- Living people
- Motherwell F.C. players
- Norwich City F.C. players
- Scotland under-21 international footballers
- Scottish Football League players
- Scottish footballers
- Scottish Premier League players
- St. Mirren F.C. players
- The Football League players
- Scottish football midfielder stubs