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
compete excited pieces
We'll compete in the set pieces (against the Bulls) and I'm excited about what we can do on attack.
I think he is only going to get better and better.
belief
Just having him back, with his knowledge, what he does and the belief that he'll give the group.
adapted simply
I thought we adapted better in the rain, simply because we were more committed.
named team wait
You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.
best call
We will see how he is and make the call that's best for him.
african south teams
We can't give South African teams that much ball.
assessment settles until wait
We have to wait until it settles down before an assessment is made.
came club few joined lucky running saw shops sports time
When I joined it was at the same time that he came back to the club after running a few sports shops and it was very lucky for me, he saw something in me as a 16-year-old that he saw in himself,
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.
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.
issue players
It's disappointing. It was an issue between two players and it's not a big thing.
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.
best early grounded left looked ourselves pair pros rags school seems stuff
We had to be down early to get the best stuff for the pros we looked after and then get the rags that we were left ourselves for training. It seems very old school but it grounded me as a person and made me appreciate everything as a footballer, because all we got was a pair of boots.