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The tears, for Danny Simpson, started to flow in the changing room, as he said goodbye to the club he had called home for five years, the club he had helped make improbable history. In a way — the nicest possible way — that is just how Leicester City had wanted it.
Leicester’s executives had known, for some time, that Simpson would leave the club when his contract expired in May 2019, and they had known that they wanted to give him and his teammate Shinji Okazaki, whose contract was also expiring, the right sort of goodbye, one last act of gratitude for all they had done.