Frankie 8,529 Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 15 years today since he was taken so young... It's a Kind of Magic! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhRrUjCq_pM]YouTube- Davie Cooper Tribute To A Legend[/ame] 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmck 117 Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 Mind the day he died. Was in Primary school. I had watched his video like a million times and cried like a child. I tried to convince myself for over a year I was left footed so I could be like Davie Cooper. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Preston Burke 0 Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 Never forget the date as it was my 9th birthday. Also seem to remember us scoring within 10 seconds after his silence at Tannadice! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangers Football Club 0 Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 McCOIST wishes his kids could have seen Coop play More... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,720 Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 RIP Super Cooper 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 5,199 Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 The term "legend" is trotted out far too often these days. If you want to see what "legend" means look up the dictionary and you are likely to find a picture of Coop - he most definitely was a legend and epitomised what it means to a fan to play for the club he loved. Not just a footballing legend but also a gentleman to the core. Many of today's prima donnas could do well to learn some lessons from Coop, both on AND off the field. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangers Football Club 0 Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 LINDSAY Herron reflects on one of the most fantastic Ibrox talents More... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gers4Life 0 Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 My all time favourite player, gone but will never be forgotten, RIP Davie Cooper. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 RIP Davie. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 Brilliant Coop Remains Sadly Missed By Lindsay Herron IT'S hard to imagine but 15 years have passed since the numbing news came through that Davie Cooper had been taken from us. He was filming a soccer skills programme on March 22, 1995 with Charlie Nicholas when he collapsed after suffering a brain haemorrhage and was pronounced dead the next day. I was working at Easter Road on the fateful day when, unusually, Hibs played Motherwell in a Premier Division match in the middle of the afternoon on a week day. There was work being carried out in two of the stands which affected the floodlighting, if I recall correctly, and so the match had to be played in daylight. Keith Wright scored twice, as it happens, as Hibs won 2-0 but all of us who were there did not have any enthusiasm to produce flowing prose on the game. We were gripped by a sense of horror when it emerged what had happened to Davie Cooper. He was just 39 years old and the whole situation was so hard to comprehend. Scottish football as a whole was in mourning. Although a Rangers man through and through, Cooper had illuminated the lives of many non-Rangers fans. I feel privileged that I was able to watch him in action throughout his career from the early days at Clydebank as well as his Rangers days and his time at Motherwell. I was also there behind Neville Southall's goal in Cardiff in 1985 when Coop scored the penalty which took Scotland to a World Cup Finals play-off with Australia. There are so many great Coop memories. He was a player who was genuinely worth the admission money, to use the old clich�©. Dazzling close control, tremendous speed and a stunningly powerful shot were just some of the features of his play. Of course, there were occasions when he was not the entertainer that everyone remembers him as. He played in poor Rangers sides in the early 1980s and it was when Graeme Souness arrived in 1986 that he became reinvigorated. It was Cooper's penalty that clinched the 1986/87 Skol Cup Final to give the new manager his first success and he was hugely instrumental in the winning of the championship that season ending nine long years without it. Indeed it was Cooper's free kick that was bulleted into the Aberdeen net by Terry Butcher at Pittodrie that clinched it. His free kick against Aberdeen the following season in the Skol Cup Final was so powerful that Jim Leighton has still not seen it. However, as most Rangers fans know, that was not his finest goal which came in the 1979 Drybrough Cup Final against Celtic at Hampden. In an act of outlandish skill and flair he kept the ball in the air four times with his left foot and thigh to elude the challenges of four defenders before deftly finishing from close range. Sandy Jardine had earlier scored a fantastic goal when he ran from his own half and smashed a shot into the roof of the met while a young John MacDonald scored the other Rangers goal in what was his Old Firm debut. These are two entirely note-worthy events but no-one remembers them. They were lost in the audacious brilliance of Cooper's wonderful individualism. Souness actually edged Cooper out too soon. He used him more often as a substitute in the 1988/89 season than he did from the start mainly due to the arrival of Mark Walters. Cooper was reluctant to leave Rangers but he signed for Tommy McLean's Motherwell in the summer of 1989 for regular first team football and he was a fantastic player for them. Indeed aside from playing a key role in the incredible Scottish Cup success of 1991, he forced himself back into the Scotland team and would have gone to the 1990 World Cup but for a foot injury. It seems laughable that he was only capped 24 times for his country when there are players with considerably more international honours who must blanch with embarrassment at the thought. Contrary to a common misconception, Cooper was far from moody or insular. Indeed, he was the most engaging company and spoke intelligently about the game. On so many levels he remains sadly missed. . http://www.rangers.co.uk/articles/20100323/brilliant-coop-remains-sadly-missed_2254712_2002655 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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