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Yesterday, Nottingham Forest sacked Steve Cooper after a run of just one victory in their last 13 games.

Oh, Yates with a mistake, it's Pereira, it's Kearney, it's fire!

While the supporters mourned the departure of a coach widely regarded as the best since legendary

club figure Brian Clough back in the 80s, this is a story that will resonate with fans

all over the world.

There is no room for sentiment in modern football.

And with Nuno Espirito Santo unveiled as Cooper's successor,

do Forrest have a plan, or are they just the latest example of a Premier League side

run entirely on the impulses of a rich owner?

I'm Ayahu Ake-Mulere.

Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast.

Thank you. The Athletic Football Podcast. All right, let's get into this.

In the studio, we've got the athletics Nick Miller.

We've also got Daniel Taylor, Tim Spears, and of course, David Ornstein, just to break things up as they like to do it here on the Athletic Football podcast.

Right, Danny, let's get into Marinakis, because, you know, in terms of the relationship between Cooper and, you know, the owner of the club from, I mean, I was reading your piece, it's fair to say,

it was, it's rather fraught relationship, and it always has been in a very strange way.

Well, funnily enough, Steve Cooper was told the news by another member of staff yesterday, and he also,

you know, he knew that Nuno was in the building and between the training ground and the stadium, and it was all sort of very strategically done to keep the two of them apart.

So even in these sort of circumstances, you know, basically he and Marinacus, you know,

the relationship was broken.

It's been broken for a long, long time.

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