For the best part of half an hour, Steve Cooper has been fielding questions centred around Nottingham Forest’s next opponents.
Manchester City, Pep Guardiola, Erling Haaland and the Premier League title race are all topics of conversation. With a sidestep as neat as any footwork Morgan Gibbs-White can produce, Cooper successfully dodges any predictions over who will be crowned champions.
“There’s a lot of talk about City, which I understand, but we are focused on ourselves,” he says, making a point rather than a complaint. “I’d rather talk about what I think about my team and my players, because we’re on our journey as well and we’re trying to be the best we can be.”
