Cristiano Ronaldo's timely arrival helped Danny Simpson salvage what had been a "painful" date with Miss California, the former Manchester United defender has amusingly recalled.
Simpson, 36, was in Los Angeles, California on Leicester's pre-season tour in the summer of 2016, a matter of weeks after he was crowned a Premier League champion. The right-back made 30 top-flight appearances as the Foxes caused the greatest upset in English football history to clinch the title under Claudio Ranieri.
However, that did little to help the conversation flow during what Simpson had hoped would be a romantic evening with Miss California. Leicester travelled to the United States in late July 2016 to face Paris Saint-Germain in a friendly in California, and it was there where he arranged to meet the model for dinner.
