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Ricky Charlesworth

Steve Cooper has no room for sentiment as he looks to smash Liverpool's 16-game streak

Steve Cooper is eyeing up another FA Cup upset - and this one would mean that little bit more to him.

The Nottingham Forest chief has won plenty of plaudits for the job he has done since arriving at the City Ground. He came into the club last September with Forest sitting bottom of the Championship, forlorn of hope and in wretched form. What has since followed is a superb run of results and a fillip in performances that not only has them on the coat-tails of the play-off places but into the last-eight of the world's oldest cup competition.

Sunday's visit of Liverpool may well conjure up meetings of days gone by, when the two sides were tussling it out to not just be domestic kings but European champions back in the 1970s and 1980s. But for Cooper, it offers the chance to pull off a huge scalp against his old employers - albeit, a Liverpool side unbeaten domestically in 16 games. The 42-year-old spent five years at Anfield between 2008 and 2013.

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