COOPER IRE AS WEATHER INTERVENES

DUEL: Forest Green’s Dayle Grubb and Mansfield’s Krystian Bishop

Forest Green’s Carl Winchester on the ball
PICTURE: PSI/Shane Healey

By Paul Humphrey
FOREST GREEN manager Mark Cooper poured cold water on referee James Linington’s decision to call the game off at half-time against Mansfield after torrential rain led to a waterlogged pitch at The New Lawn.
Cooper insisted: “The right decision would have been to not start the game.
“We told the referee the forecast that it would be a monsoon of Mongolian proportions but he...

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