Sadly Missed

[BLUEDIGNITY 33,638]

GBNF 💙

[Leftpegcoopz11 4,671]

Remember that sad day like it was yesterday. Shed many a tear that day. 

He was my favourite Rangers player then, and always has been. GBNF 

 

[dougie76 15,356]

My first Hero. 

[bornabear 6,200]

Wonderful player, sorely missed.

[KeyserSoze 14,519]

 

 

[Falkirk Blue 67]

Genius is an overused word in football but when Cooper turned it on he was unplayable. 

[folkestoneger 8,083]

4 minutes ago, Falkirk Blue said:

Genius is an overused word in football but when Cooper turned it on he was unplayable. 

As was your avatar

[HuistraHairDo 12,489]

So glad I  got to see him play live, he was doing things with his feet (or foot should I say) that no other player in world football was doing with a ball in the early 80s
 

I even went to a Motherwell game just to see him play. 

one word

 

magic

[slimjim1690 4,534]

Only thing he couldn't do with a ball was make it talk.

[Bluekev 43,654]

[KeyserSoze 14,519]

 

[hawkfalcons 2,296]

A legend, every so often I go to the Hamilton Palace Grounds to look at the statue of him 

[superallysbears 7,571]

My first Rangers hero! and distant family relative to my father, best player to have come out of Hamilton imo.  God knows we miss you Davie ❤️🤍💙

[Dennis Reynolds 1,329]

should still be the name of the training center. 

[BlueVanguard 6,593]

Leaves a bitter taste in my mouth that i never got to see this absolute hero play football.

If he was a player in this day and age he would be up there with the worlds best.

[Willis 20,919]

It's weird cause I was 6 when he died so I should probably remember it cause he was one of my Dads favourite players and I'd been going to games with him since before I can even remember, but my earliest memory about Davie Cooper is my dad coming home with a poster for me similar to the pic Bluekev posted with the year of his birth and death on it and putting it on my wall

[VERITAS VOS LIBREBETS 3,315]

1 hour ago, Dennis Reynolds said:

should still be the name of the training center. 

Rangers F.C. Football Training Park

 

[BlueHatBlueDay 468]

I was 30 years old, remember taking flowers to the stadium before I went into work, was greetin like a baby. Strange how only certain players passing gets you that way. Remember seeing him a few times in a Hamilton Italian restaurant, heading up from Quarry St towards Low Watters Rd. Really civil man. 

[jamess 3,407]

I remember the excitement the day we signed him and he did not fail to deliver over the years. Someone very special.

[Bill8972 479]

I remember that sad day well. I took my wife to the stadium to place flowers that evening.

 My neighbour was a good friend of Davie Cooper wrote   -   Davie Cooper: Tribute to a Legend   and published it later that year.

[LegendofCoop 17,247]

I was too numb to cry when he passed. For days I just kept thinking"Why?". It just hit me so hard I couldn't really take it in properly. 

I've she'd a year every year since though. It's hard to explain to people how much a hero means to you, but essentially, all through my teens, I wanted to actually be Davie Cooper. I spent hours in our street with a ball trying to do the things he did. Tried to run the way he ran. As I say...hard to explain properly.

Thank you for not only being one of the greatest ever Rangers, Davie....but for giving me someone to look up to and give me something to aim for. I never even came close to being anything like you, but you inspired me to at least try. You were...ARE, my one and only real hero! 

I'll forever have that image of Super Ally holding you up after you scored that penalty against Celtic in the 86 cup final, thousands of bears in the background going mad! That's my ever lasting memory of you...... making us happy every time you played. Rest in peace Coop!

[Blacky Bear 863]

As much as McCoist will always be favourite, can easily say only Laudrup was better player than super coop

[pcbear 10,913]

My first daughter was born a week later, contrasting emotions that week, the lord giveth and the lord taketh away.

[Moody Blue 9,341]

Sad to some extent that he was getting on a bit when Souness arrived rather than e.g. in his mid twenties.  Shone in a much stronger team and didn’t really benefit from strong teams when he was at his peak. 

1981 SC replay, he was unplayable that night. 

RIP genius. 

[BlueboyG 5,225]

I remember his funeral, standing with my father outside the church which had speakers, most fans were in tears as were most players, Ally McCoist told a few story's of Coop which did have everyone laughing but still tears. The turnout for Coop was amazing as he deserved.