The League Paper

COOPER’S FOREST MIRACLE HARD TO BELIEVE…

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The LeaguePaper Team
1 May 2022

John Lyons
FLP EXECUTIVE EDITOR

IF YOU had said back in mid-September that Nottingham Forest would enter the final week of the season in with a sniff of automatic promotion, people would have thought you were crazy.
But that’s exactly what has happened since Chris Hughton departed and former Swansea boss Steve Cooper took the reins.
Take a glance back at the league table after Hughton’s last game in charge and you’ll see that Forest had one point from seven games. To put it in perspective, leaders Fulham had 16 on the board by that stage and Bournemouth, in third, ...

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