Morgan was born in
Birmingham. He began his football career with
Leicester City, representing them in the
First and
Second Divisions of
The Football League, before being bought to then
Second Division Fulham in October 1990 by
Alan Dicks. and missed out on the play-offs by four points) with a squad which Morgan felt "should have got promoted but for one reason or another we blew it". was followed by the club slipping to 18th with nine matches remaining of the
1993–94 season, as a result of which Mackay was replaced by
Ray Lewington, and after going through these managerial changes, Fulham were relegated to the
Third Division. After finishing within three points of the play-offs in
1994–95 under
Ian Branfoot, the club had slipped to 23rd by February 1996, and eventually appointed
Micky Adams as
manager, who helped them finish 17th. The team was
promoted to the Second Division in 1997. The club was then bought by
Mohamed Al Fayed, which was followed by Fulham's rise into the
Premier League in 2001; with Morgan playing an integral role throughout as one of a back three alongside Welsh international defenders Andy Melville, Kit Symons and Chris Coleman. In January 1999, as runaway leaders of division 2 (tier 3 of the football pyramid), Fulham secured a shock 0 - 2 victory to knock Aston Villa (then joint top of the Premier League) out of the FA cup. Morgan, a Birmingham City FC supporter (from a family of Aston Villa fans), scored the first goal after 8 minutes, with Steve Hayward adding the second just before half time. Due to injury, Morgan only played once in Fulham's victorious
2000–01 Division One campaign, coming on as a substitute against
Wolverhampton Wanderers, This included a special edition of Fulham fanzine
TOOFIF, called "There's Only One Simon Morgan" (TOOSM), and culminated in a friendly match against
Spurs, supported by a Fulham vs.
Chelsea veterans' game (in which his son played). Morgan was unable to participate in the Spurs match due to injury, but kicked the match off before being shown a pre-arranged red card by referee
Graham Poll. Morgan then went to play at
Brighton & Hove Albion for a season, scoring once against Northampton,{{cite web ==References==