OPTIMISTIC: Mark Cooper

MARK COOPER will send his players, and particularly son Charlie Cooper, out at Wembley today with a little reminder.
“I never ever got near it as a player,” the Forest Green Rovers boss and former Exeter, Birmingham and Tamworth midfielder, tells The NLP.
“That’s what I said to my son. ‘You’re 19 and you’re getting to play at Wembley! You can’t thank me enough, you’re so lucky’. If I pick him!
“The biggest thing is keeping the players in a good place so they can focus on their game. We’ve got ...