Personal and Later Life
Simpson's father Jimmy Simpson also played for Scotland, and enjoyed notable success as a centre-half for Rangers and Dundee United in the 1930s. After Simpson retired as a player, he was manager of Hamilton Academical for a year. He also served on the pools panel, which guessed results of postponed matches in periods of exceptionally bad weather. He was also a Conservative Councillor on Edinburgh City Council in the 1970s.
He died from a heart attack on 19 April 2004. Simpson was posthumously inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in November 2011.
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