Colin Cooper
Colin Cooper
Colin Terence Cooperis an English former professional footballer. Cooper spent most of his playing career at Middlesbrough and Nottingham Forest. Prior to his appointment at Hartlepool, Cooper was part of the Middlesbrough coaching staff after leaving his role of assistant manager at Bradford City...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth8 March 1856
expect perform react smarter team tuesday week
Tuesday we went pretty intense, but we can't do that all week and expect them to perform at the weekend. Everyone's under the same hammer. It's about which team is smarter to react to that.
kid leave tough winning
It's tough on a kid to leave the Crusaders when he was part of them winning the title,
game kick played second special
It's only his second game at first five-eighth . . . so he's got a lot of promise. He played fullback for a while as you saw, and he can kick goals. He's a pretty special player.
absolute bike falling hit last nobody tree worried
It's unbelievably freakish. It's an absolute tragedy. You're always worried about getting into a bike wreck, about getting hit by a car, but nobody would think about a tree falling on you. That's the last thing you would think of.
issue players
It's disappointing. It was an issue between two players and it's not a big thing.
heard nice
It's not a nice thing. I heard he was pretty crook, I didn't actually see him but I heard he was pretty crook.
both huge
It's a huge loss, both on and off the field.
asking buzz call club dave delighted great hopefully learning left moment phone wanting
When I left Bradford and got a phone call from Dave Parnaby asking 'did I want to come back in?', I was delighted to accept. The whole buzz at the club at the moment is great for someone like me who is still learning and wanting to hopefully go into management in my own right at some point.
good messages sent team teams
We sent a lot of good messages to the other teams that this team is going to be a threat.
cancer confirmed larger number results terms understanding work
This work is potentially very important in terms of understanding how prostate cancer develops, but the results must now be confirmed in a larger number of prostate cancer samples.
club conditions downward joining kids kit none spiral
After joining as a youth trainee at 16 from school, in my first two or three years the club was on a financial downward spiral and there was none of the new sparkling kit and the sparkling conditions that the kids get now.
adapted simply
I thought we adapted better in the rain, simply because we were more committed.
belief
Just having him back, with his knowledge, what he does and the belief that he'll give the group.
chance feet
He's just so young, you have to give him a chance to find his feet for a while.