“We don’t want to be in awe of these big teams,” a disappointed, but not deflated, Steve Cooper told a packed City Ground press room at full-time. “We want to go and attack them head on.”
It will not be the games against the big-hitters which define Nottingham Forest’s season. But it is in those kinds of matches where the Reds can prove they belong on the big stage.
On Sunday, they did just that. They looked more than at home in Premier League company, with the general consensus being, ‘play like that and Forest will be just fine this season’.
