When Steve Cooper and Jamie Robinson met 22 years ago it must have seemed almost impossible that they would end up where they are today.
Cooper was managing Wrexham Under-16s with Robinson in the opposite dugout in charge of Shrewsbury Town Under-16s - a decent rivalry in that part of the world at first team level. Now Cooper is a Premier League manager with Robinson one of his first team coaches at Nottingham Forest having joined from the FA in the summer.
Both men have Liverpool connections going back to their formative years, Robinson as a player and Cooper as the head of their Academy. Both have come through and even formulated to a degree the modern FA style of coaching, especially in Robinson's case, but back at the turn of the millennium, the Premier League and the FA was a long way off.
