Danny Simpson - "Ronaldo, Giggs, Evra, Rio - that team made me a winner"
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Manchester United
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🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Former Manchester United full-back Danny Simpson is on the UTD Podcast this week, looking back on the years he spent at Old Trafford and beyond.
Danny takes us back to his first meeting with Sir Alex Ferguson and laughs at the incredible photo taken on the day.
He also talks about training alongside the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, Patrice Evra and Rio Ferdinand, and says if you couldn't handle Roy Keane's rants on the training ground, then you wouldn't be able to handle the pressure at Old Trafford.
Simmo also tells us about his career after Man Utd and we hear what it was like in the dressing room during Leicester City's Premier League title win under Claudio Ranieri in 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Manchester United podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm joined by Maisie and Sam. Hello. How are you? |
| 0:09.2 | Very good, how are you? You okay? Yes, I'm good. Thank you, Maisie. How are you? |
| 0:12.4 | Oh, how good. How good for seeing you. I think you've opened with a lie, Helen. |
| 0:16.2 | Why? I'm sure you're good, but I know for a fact that you're cold. |
| 0:19.0 | I've got my hot water bottle, got my coat, I've got a heater on, standard Helen. |
| 0:23.6 | Do you know what that is? I'm not okay. |
| 0:28.2 | Okay. We're sat in the Trafford Suite looking out, which I must say that has to be one of the best views. |
| 0:34.6 | Yeah, it's amazing. You have a ticket in here. |
| 0:36.4 | Uninterrupted glass, isn't it? So you can just look all the way around. |
| 0:39.4 | Beautiful view of the pitch, which is looking amazing. I love watching them walking along for long, |
| 0:43.9 | long wars to you. But yeah, I'm not okay because Maisie declared before we started recording that I, |
| 0:50.4 | for the last 10 years of knowing him, have never shared my food. |
| 0:54.0 | You never do. It actually hurt. Good. No, you know, I feel for the last 10 years, and more. |
| 1:01.1 | Starving away, I spent it. Starving away. |
| 1:04.7 | I brought a box of shortbread the other day. Oh, yeah. Not appreciated. |
| 1:07.9 | Yeah, it was an old Christmas present. It was not. It was stuck under the tree. |
| 1:11.5 | I actually bought it. I buy shortbread all year round. |
| 1:14.6 | I want to see the receipt, even though you say you don't go, and I want to see your bank statement. |
| 1:18.1 | I know, do you, Sam? Yeah, well, you've never given me any food on it, |
| 1:21.6 | but I think I'll buy it. Are you giving me any vegan food? |
| 1:25.7 | I go to the unit to get some chocolate for you instead of our idiots. |
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