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http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/magazine/196723-davie-cooper-centre-inspires-little-boy-to-make-a-big-difference/ When a chimney fire broke out in their home in November 2010, the Shearer family lost everything they owned. Colin Shearer escaped from the blaze with young sons Euan and Alastair, carrying them to safety amidst the chaos of smoke and sirens. All the family could do was watch as their home and its contents were consumed by flames, leaving them with nothing. â??We lost everything in the house - all our possessions, and we had to move into temporary homeless accommodation,â? said Colin. â??Euan was four at the time and old enough to see what was going on. â??He was traumatised. He lost all sense of himself. It took a lot of care and attention to bring him back.â? Haunted by memories of the fire and unsettled by moving from place to place, Euan struggled to cope in the weeks following the incident. It took turning his attention to helping others and the support of his family to get the little boy back on his feet. Raising money for the Davie Cooper Centre, a charity based in Clydebank, is the shared focus that managed to help Euan and his family recover from their ordeal. The generous little boy, now aged six and back to his cheery self, is about to embark on a charity walk up the Clyde to raise money for the organisation. â??We started fundraising a couple of years ago when we lost everything,â? said Colin. â??We had to move three or four times before we got settled. The people at the Davie Cooper Centre were really kind to us and we built up a friendship with them in the weeks after the fire happened. â??They were really kind to Euan and gave him fun and friendship. We thought as a family it would be something good to focus on to start fundraising for them.â? The Davie Cooper Centre is named after the late legendary Scottish footballer, and its high-profile patrons include Walter Smith MBE and Alistair McCoist MBE. The charity, founded in 2005, exists to help children with special needs. It aims to provide play and learning facilities for children with disabilities and respite for the people who take care of them. The charity own a plot of land in Clydebank, which was initially intended as the site for a Davie Cooper memorial stadium. The site will now be built upon in Davie's name to provide valuable services for children with special needs. In keeping with Euan's passion for football and love of helping others, the little boy has raised nearly £8,000 for the charity to date with the help of friends and family - selling bracelets and also holding online auctions of signed football memorabilia. His charity walk - Walk With Euan 2012 - aims to raise the remaining £2,000 the family need to reach their total of £10,000. The money they raise will go towards helping the Davie Cooper Centre build their dream facility with indoor and outdoor play facilities, a short stay respite centre, a learning unit and sensory rooms. The walk was scheduled to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Davie's landmark free kick for Rangers against Aberdeen in the 1987 League Cup Final, but had to be postponed to a couple of weeks later. "Weâ??re walking along the Clyde because weâ??re doing it for Davie Cooper. To build a new playground and build the Davie Cooper Centre," said Euan. "Iâ??m excited about it because Iâ??ll be at the very front and we're going to raise £10,000. "I sold bracelets and we were doing lots of work, and last time we had to walk round Ibrox with a banner." Charity fundraising has been a welcome distraction from the hardship the Shearer family has suffered, and has allowed Euan to re-build his life again after his traumatic experience. He is now happiest playing football, going to Beavers and raising money for worthy causes with his Dad. "For a wee boy to understand that thereâ??s people less fortunate than himself, and to then give so much to them, is amazing," said Jackie McDonald, director of the Davie Cooper Centre. "The family could have easily lost their lives by all accounts. They came away with nothing and had to start from scratch, but they still give to others. "We formed a close relationship with the family and Euan got involved, which was just fabulous. What the wee manâ??s doing is just amazing, he's not only raising money but raising awareness, which is really beneficial for us." Walk With Euan 2012 takes place on Saturday, November 10, beginning at the SECC. A crowd of supporters, led by Euan, will walk 5km walk up the Clyde to Glasgow Green and back again. Euan will be joined by footballers such as Bobby Russell, members of the Davie Cooper Centre and supporters of the charity. All sponsorship for the walk and donations towards the centre are welcome, and can be given by donating on Euan's Just Giving page. To learn more about the Davie Cooper Centre, visit their website

It is up to fans to make up their own minds, as you say. Just think most Supporters would rather pay for a S/T so they can watch the team, rather than paying for shares.

Nah, it's called parting with your hard earned.

It may just be me, but I don't understand why anyone would pay out, what is a considerable sum to most, when they can wait until the future is clearer.

The elephant in the room is, he wants us to put our hand in our pocket. Any mud flying about will have a giant effect on how much they realise.

We keep saying that about things we don't like.

At the wages we are paying, it only needs a few extra in the squad.

I think perhaps Rangers needed an outsider like Green in his position. I never supported TBK, Kennedy, McColl or Smith, but what one of these might have given us, was stability to plan ahead. The present owners are unknown as are their plans.

Depends more on the wage bill than what we actually spend on the players. I wouldn't say they want it to rise dramatically.

Many supported Whyte, when it was staring them in the face there was something wrong. You have to ask why? Also, would they support someone else who was offering the same meetings and kudos.

David Frost available ??

Played a better game, or had the inside track all along. I wonder if Green will react today?

Pompous and pretentious springs to mind.

'Not going back to Ibrox', is a bit different from 'not being a Rangers fan anymore'. I've said a few times on here my dislike for 'Rule Brittannia', there are a couple of others I detest 'Super Rangers' being one. But to think that would stop me either going to Ibrox or supporting Rangers, well no chance. That was what I meant when I said he probably wasn't much of one in the first place. As it has disturbed someone who thinks my posts are rubbish, I will withdraw the post, and now he can use the ignore button. Don't bother with the ignore button, I'll just stop posting.

A mod posted this . . . 'I had a forum member contact me last night telling me he's leaving the forum because of this bullshit. Tonight he tells me he's not Rangers fan any more.' Now if it isn't true, or there is more to it, then the mod can tell me. If there are other circumstances, of course I will withdraw what I said. Where did the timposter come from?

No idea, but that's a couple of commentators who have said we will lose some, and win some.

Passing judgement, dearie me. [it's only a Forum, nothing important] I was saying, someone who lets a Forum decide whether he is a Rangers fan or not, wasn't much of one in the first place. Nothing about timposter or any other silly names.

elfideldo Heard anything of the new kid in town, Mather?

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/a-taxin-question.19222492 The club could not conceivably move on while the First Tier Tribunal determined whether or not Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs were justified in charging £24m in unpaid tax, with additional penalties and interest, from Rangers' use of Employee Benefit Trusts. The verdict is now thought to have been delivered to the two parties, and should be made public in the coming days, but what will it mean? In some ways, nothing, and in other ways, everything. A judgment on a period of Rangers' history certainly will be made if the club is found to have misadministered the EBT scheme and left itself liable to millions of pounds of unpaid tax. It was Murray International Holdings, Sir David Murray's company, that initiated the EBT scheme and made the appeal to the FTT against HMRC's bill. So the verdict will be a reflection on the way Murray ran Rangers. At hearings in October 2010, April, May and November 2011, and January 2012, the tribunal considered evidence about every individual EBT administered by the club, with some thought to include side letters detailing payments which HMRC considered evidence of the scheme being used for remuneration. The payments, made in the form of loans from a trust, should be discretionary to keep the tax avoidance scheme valid. The likelihood is that the tribunal will find in HMRC's favour for some of the cases, and in Rangers' favour for others. The size of the bill, and any additional interest and penalties, will be significant if only in terms of revealing the scale of any misuse of the scheme. The liability falls to Rangers Football Club plc, the company that went into administration and which will soon become the subject of liquidation proceedings once the accountancy firm BDO formally takes over. The Rangers Football Club, owned by Charles Green's consortium and which bought the business and assets of the club during the summer and now owns the team, will not be liable for any of the tax owed. Green can, in effect, ignore the verdict. It will have little effect, if any, on the share issue the club has just launched, since the tax case was wholly the concern of Murray's reign and the EBT scheme, which ran from season 2000/01 to 2009/10. Craig Whyte, who bought the club for £1 in May 2011 â?? while paying off the £18m debt to Lloyds with money borrowed against future ticket sales from Ticketus â?? ran up an additional £9m of unpaid taxes in his own short reign. Yet others will be more concerned by the outcome. In theory, if the bill is not for the full amount but a figure that might have been payable over time, Rangers could have traded their way out of their financial difficulties. Due to Champions League revenues, and cutting costs, the club reduced the debt with Lloyds from more than £30m to £18m. Ultimately, paring down the wage bill would have undermined the team's ability to win the league, and without the Champions League revenue no profit would have been generated to pay off significant amounts of debt, but Rangers could have cashed in on their playing assets. The likes of Allan McGregor, Steven Naismith, Steven Whittaker, Steven Davis and Kyle Lafferty could have been sold to cover a manageable tax bill, instead of all leaving for free during the administration process. The big tax case played a defining role in Rangers' fate, though, since the threat of the full £24m bill, plus penalties and interest taking it up to £54m, then £75m according to administrators Duff & Phelps in their last report to creditors, made Rangers effectively unsellable. Without it, buyers might have emerged before Whyte appeared with an offer to take the club off Murray's hands. Whyte admits now that he considered administration inevitable, despite comments to the contrary at the time, and was merely waiting for the FTT verdict. When the club ran out of money before that happened, he had to initiate the insolvency proceedings himself. Even if it is likely that the tax bill will still be large enough to have prompted administration, the FTT verdict will not be merely a historical footnote. It will influence the reputation of those who ran the club then, and in some ways will deliver the final judgment on Murray's approach to owning Rangers, which was at times recklessly and heedlessly ambitious. Yet there might be more significant consequences. When HMRC voted against the Company Voluntary Arrangement proposal made by Green's consortium to take oldco Rangers out of administration, they reasoned that the liquidation process would deliver the greater return. "[it] provides the best opportunity to protect taxpayers, by allowing the potential investigation and pursuit of possible claims against those responsible for the company's financial affairs in recent years," HMRC said in a statement. Once BDO move in as liquidators, they have the power to investigate the conduct of previous directors, and criminal prosecutions can be sought, although no criminal allegations have been made. Losses can also be pursued in the civil courts if office holders have failed in their legal duties, and directors can also be disqualified. HMRC may also seek tax repayments from players and directors who benefited from the EBT scheme. The FTT verdict should, in theory, have no effect on the inquiry being conducted by the SPL's independent commission, headed by Lord Nimmo Smith, since it is investigating alleged breaches of registration rules in the way that Rangers' administered the EBT scheme. If some players received side letters detailing payments, the commission must decide if they constitute contracts and so should have been declared in the players' registrations. Yet the side letters issue are key to HMRC's case, and the detail of the verdict may provide some indication of the evidence being considered by Lord Nimmo Smith and his fellow commission members. However, if the big tax case was once central to Rangers' fate, it is now of greatest concern to the reputations and peace of mind of individuals, as well as being a judgment on a moment of time in the club's history.

Nope I never said I did, but I get to express an opinion. 'pompous and pretentious', at least you recognise yourself. I hope I have spelt these words correctly, in case I have insulted your superior wisdom and writing skills.

What a load of shyte. If someone says ' I'm not a Rangers Fan anymore', because of things that were said on a Forum, then what I said was true.

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Yes we have new foreign players. Yes we have young players. Yes we have players who are inexperienced against this kind of football. But where are the signs of improvement, we should by now be seeing how Ally wants the team to play, type of football, what formation, there is no philosophy about what way we are progressing as a football team. You have to think it is beyond Allys capabilities as a coach and manager.

Getting the right people in the right place could take a while. We need those at Ibrox who are able to put a 5 year plan in place, to do this we need stability. I cannot see the present incumbents being here in 5 years. We also need young guys with new ideas on the sidelines, and this will have to wait till Ally decides, either he has had enough, or gets rid of his mates. We can say what we like about the ********, but they have stability at the top, and know what they want.

Not sure why Faure keeps getting a game to be honest.