Simon William Ferry (born 11 January 1988) is a Scottish football coach and former player who is currently assistant manager for Lowland League club East Kilbride.
Ferry started his career with Scottish Premier League club Celtic but did not play a competitive match for the first team.
[3] A few months later Ferry made his first-team debut on a pre-season tour of Poland,[4] playing against Wisła Kraków and Legia Warsaw.
[5][6] His professional development was curtailed by injury problems sustained in the 2006–07 season, which resulted in his missing almost three years of club football.
He returned to the Celtic first-team squad in February 2009,[4][7] and featured in a Wembley Cup match against Tottenham Hotspur on 26 July 2009.
[8] On 27 August 2009, Ferry joined Swindon Town on loan until January 2010 along with Celtic teammate Ben Hutchinson.
[9] He made his debut for Swindon on 29 August, receiving the club's Man of the Match award in a 2–1 victory against Southend United.
[10] A week after scoring his first goal, on 26 November 2009, it was announced that a deal had been agreed with parent club Celtic to extend the loan until the end of the season.
[11] Ferry stated he would like to stay at the club and revealed he had adapted easily to life on and off the pitch at Swindon Town.
[citation needed] The next season, with the appointment of Paolo Di Canio as Swindon manager, Ferry believed he could look forward to life at the club.
[23] Soon after, Di Canio revealed that Ferry almost left the club about three weeks after being behind Oliver Risser, Jonathan Smith and Alan McCormack in the pecking order for a place in the centre of midfield.
[25] Having featured in eight out of nine games for Swindon Town, Ferry overly praised Di Canio's squad selection and was then immediately dropped from his first team plan.
[26] Di Canio praised Ferry on his home form, describing him as the main player that pressed everywhere and challenged every ball.
[29] In mid-April, with Swindon Town in the brink of promotion, Ferry was among several players on a wild night out after a match against Plymouth Argyle and was later forced to apologise by releasing a statement on the club website saying they had "let their standards massively slip".
The next season, with the club's promotion return to League One, Ferry continued to maintain his first team place at Swindon Town.
[33][34] In November, Ferry was named captain, ahead of a match against Macclesfield Town in the first round of the FA Cup, but lost 2–0.
In the last two games in early March, Ferry started playing on the right side of midfield, under newly manager Kevin MacDonald, mainly due to lack of options in that position.
[40] Upon joining Portsmouth, Manager Guy Whittingham described Ferry as someone he needs, due to being "extremely fit and his work-rate is fantastic, something our fans demand.
Titled Si Ferry Meets..., he has interviewed football players and managers such as Andy Robertson, Ally McCoist, John Hartson, Barry Ferguson, David Moyes, David Marshall, Ian Durrant, Leigh Griffiths, Kenny Miller, Jamie Carragher, Jonathan Woodgate and Gordon Strachan.