J. James

Ah but in their world of hate they can and justify it to themselves.

As right as he's been picking every other team, if he was wrong in this one, he's been wrong once, the clever mouths on this forum would have picked this team every match and we'd now be bottom.

It's the team the know it alls on here have been screaming for! But l get people can't say "yeah l was wrong and he was right"

"Former Leicester winger Matt Piper believes the remarkable comeback against Southampton shows the Foxes' players are completely behind boss Steve Cooper. I was buzzing! Contemplating at half-time whether to turn it off, I thought the game was over - like most people would. But clearly we had already come back in a game where we were 2-0 down against Arsenal, so there's that little bit in the back of your mind. I think the change of shape to a three at the back really helped. Anyone that is questioning [Cooper], if you're not playing for the gaffer, you don't flick the switch at half-time. It was a massive result. Backing up the three points from Bournemouth against Southampton, when we're two down at half time, was huge." Says it all l think.

Yep, win and it's the players, lose and it's Cooper.. Nailed on.

You may well be correct, but l guarantee it would still be Coopers fault!

Great idea, 100% chance your missus will agree I'm guessing.... 😐

Wrong thread.. Should be in the "Danny Ward" one. 😐

Could it be that sparkly blue spandex mankini you wear to home games? 🤔

Hold on, back then these teams were actual champions! They were the cream of europe not 2nd,3rd,4th and sometimes 5th placed losers masquerading as "champions". So, so easy to denegrate past successes, Forest won because they were quite simply the best champions in Europe. In precisely the same way that we won the prem because we were best.

I hope you're right but frankly l don't trust the EPL and United in particular have an extremely cosmopolitan fanbase. Also, there is a massive demand for tickets and a waiting list for season tickets so would "it's only one game" put off the regular supporters? They would grumble for sure, but boycott? The superleague WILL happen but by the backdoor imao, we'll start to see more games in the champions league (happening), and the greedy six will either drop out of the league cup and FA cup or play entire youth teams in them. It's a tried and trusted method to push through an unpopular measure - change by degree until one day we all say " how did we get here?" Personally, l'd say good riddance if the greedy six buggered off!

Just when you thought football couldn't get any more money driven, Barcelona want to play Atletico Madrid in Miami, not a friendly, a la liga game! If this happens then it will be a greedy six club next, most likely Chelsea, Liverpool or Manure. (Manure would probably get more Mancunians in the crowd playing in America). Football as we know and love it is ending.

Yeah, got this a bit wrong, l know he went out in January, l thought it was for this season too if we didn't sell him.

Ahh, i see you are hypercorrecting by overapplying the perceived rule of language-usage prescription in adding the H to the word "umble"...... Just saying... I'll get my coat.

Lol... Cooperouts if we beat 'em

Lol.. So you believe that there are only 3 options which explain an incredibly complicated event such as 45 mins of football! My whole point is that there can be no simple cause or remedy, it's not black or white, nothing is, everything is a shade of grey. This is how l see it, Cooper is not a tactical genius nor is he a fool, like most he falls somewhere in between. His team selection was good as most commented at the time, Fatawu was omitted for what ever reason but the general concensus was positive, from that point it's the players responsibility to perform - they plainly did not. Half time and the chance for a manager to try to change things. In this case things clearly changed. If the manager is popular, he would be lauded as inspirational, a brilliant motivator who inspired his men to snatch a famous victory from the Jaws of defeat. Or if like Cooper an unpopular manager with a small vocal minority, its luck, the players, the rain stopped or anything but his doing. The truth lies somewhere in the middle. Here are the facts. 1.He picked an attacking team 2. He picked questionable subs which many criticised, particularly Ayew, but did not use the dreadful Soumare. 3.The first half performance was shambolic. 4. The second half (generally regarded as a measure of the managers influence) was excellent. 5. His substitutions worked and changed the game. 6. The most criticised player scored the winner. Now, you could say it was down to him that the first half was so bad, but then it was also down to him that the second half was better by a factor of 3 to 2, or both halves were down to the players. But it is plainly ridiculous to blame him for the first half and credit the players for the second! And that is what I'm calling out, one honest man posted that there is literally NOTHING Cooper could do change his opinion of him, l sincerely believe that is where the majority of the haters are but won't admit it. Fair criticism is great, (many of those critical of his bench remarked that Iverson should be there not Ward - a measure of their knowledge in a nutshell, he's on loan to Stoke) But what l find distasteful is the mindless, mob hatred based on nothing but assumptions, what someone suspects the players think or just plain fantasy. You and others can speculate, quote opta data and bookies numbers till the cows come home but the only thing that matters is that we won again and he is doing the job he is paid for atm.

5000/1

Lol.. Exactly as l predicted in the pre match.. The haters will say that if we win it was down to the players not Cooper.. And if you're sure he's just lucky it MUST be true! Congratulations you're the first of the haters.

Cooper is a wealthy man and cosmetic surgery is expensive..... Keep saving steve, gonna cost a few bob to get to look like that!

Lucky, sure he's lucky.. The great golfer Gary player was called lucky... He responded "yep, and the more l practice, the luckier l get" Guess Cooper is pretty much the same.

Any chance of popping down to Devon, mines a tip!

Ok, so he selects a team most of the Cooper outs grudgingly like, they play sh!t, he makes subs including the "useless" Ayew and bdr and we turn 0-2 into 2-3, and Ayew scores the winner... Guess that had nothing to do with Mr. Cooperout then.. 😂😂

Quite right, Iverson should be on the bench, even though he's at Stoke and another thing any decent manager would also have Foden and Kane on the bench not to mention Salah... Cooper out!

Lol.. So he picks a team that the moaners club want (almost) and if they lose its still his fault... Yeah that totally fits the pattern.

I can see the post match comments now.. Win 2-0 "Great performance from the players, could have been 3 or4 with a decent manager" Lose or draw "This result is all down to Cooper, sack him now" So, so predictable, so, so boring