Give blood to help little niece Poppy

FAMILY HEARTBREAK FOR FOOTBALL BOSS | Rangers manager’s plea as he shares devastating cancer diagnosis of brave girl the same age as his daughter Alba

- ANDY NEWPORT

RANGERS boss Michael Beale has pleaded with Scots to give blood after his three-year-old niece was given a devastating cancer diagnosis. 

While preparing for the Viaplay Cup final last month, Beale and his wife Roxanne were told that their niece Poppy had suffered a relapse of a blood cancer she thought she had beaten only months before.

Opening up on the heartbreaking news, he said: “It’s difficult because it’s my wife’s sister’s baby – my niece.

“She’s the same age as my daughter so I have a daughter [Alba] who is three-and-a-half years old and well, and a niece who has had two years of chemotherapy. She rings the bell [after beating cancer] then three months later, it relapses.