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
months played
I played with a fracture in my foot for seven months without knowing it.
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I'm from a council estate myself, and the biggest release we had as kids was football. That's where all the great players learn their trade - as kids having a kickabout.
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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.
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I've stated before that nine and 10 are my concerns and David is another option there,
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I've read the original and I'm really looking forward to reading the new chapters by Hilary and Willie's kids,
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.
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It's tough on a kid to leave the Crusaders when he was part of them winning the title,
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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.
tough travel
The travel back is always tough (on players) and it won't be easy.
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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.
issue players
It's disappointing. It was an issue between two players and it's not a big thing.
boost confidence days early feet firmly good
The good thing was we had a win, which will boost the confidence of the players, and I thought it was a pretty good spectacle. It's early days and we can't take too much out of these games, so we've got our feet firmly on the ground.
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The Cats are very strong in the lineout and you've got to watch the one-off runners who come through the middle. We've just got to play smart against them -- that's been our key this week -- to play smart.