Roy Keane once joked about taking players paintballing to boost flagging team spirit when he was Sunderland manager.
"Paintballing! Brilliant, but you always know when teams are having a hard time when they’re paintballing," he said to Micah Richards last year as the chalk and cheese duo filmed for Sky Sports' Euro 2020 preview show. "You know you’re heading for relegation when you’re paintballing."
Nottingham Forest head coach Steve Cooper will hope his team are not worried about relegation as they make embark on their first Premier League season since the 1990s - a decade from Keane played for the club with distinction - as Cooper prepares for a different approach to the Reds great, when it comes to team spirit.
