Simon Royce
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Simon Ernest Royce | ||
| Date of birth | 9 September 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Forest Gate, London, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Brentford (goalkeeping coach) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989–1991 | Heybridge Swifts | 70 | (0) |
| 1991–1998 | Southend United | 149 | (0) |
| 1998–1999 | Charlton Athletic | 8 | (0) |
| 2000–2003 | Leicester City | 19 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | → Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2002 | → Manchester City (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2002 | → Queens Park Rangers (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2002–2003 | → Queens Park Rangers (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2003–2005 | Charlton Athletic | 1 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | → Luton Town (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2005 | → Queens Park Rangers (loan) | 13 | (0) |
| 2005–2007 | Queens Park Rangers | 50 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Gillingham (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2007–2010 | Gillingham | 92 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Brentford | 2 | (0) |
| Total | 431 | (0) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Simon Ernest Royce (born 9 September 1971) is a retired English footballer currently at Brentford as a goalkeeping coach. Royce joined Gillingham in April 2007 as an emergency loan signing after the Kent team were left with no fit goalkeepers for their final three matches of the season and signed for the club on a permanent basis in August 2007.
Royce began his career with non-League Heybridge Swifts and after claiming the number one jersey off long standing Albie Bridge while still a teenager soon attracted the interest of many Football League sides. He joined Southend United and became the first Heybridge player to be sold to a professional club. He spent a few seasons as understudy to Paul Sansome before finally establishing himself as the Shrimpers' first choice and a fans' favourite – he played in the successful Southend side in the mid 90's under Barry Fry and later Peter Taylor before Charlton Athletic manager Alan Curbishley snapped him up on a free transfer. Previous to this there had been speculation linking him with big money moves to Everton and Celtic. Despite some strong performances in the Premier League, including many clean sheets resulting in setting a post-war club record, injury prevented Royce from establishing himself as regularly as he would have liked and, after the arrival of Dean Kiely, he rejoined former boss Peter Taylor at Leicester City. Some good early form resulted with speculation about an England call-up for new manager Sven-Goran Eriksson's initual squad, however this never materialised, and further injuries prevented Royce from making as many first team appearances as he possibly could.
A second spell at Charlton followed before he moved into the lower tiers of the Football League with Queens Park Rangers, Manchester City (on loan), Luton Town (on loan) and Brighton & Hove Albion (on loan) again teaming up with Peter Taylor. During a Stoke City vs QPR game, he was attacked by a Stoke fan.
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