FOREST THUMP

Raul and Co have Cooper on the run

- MIKE WALTERS

FULHAM 5 NOTTM FOREST 0 

STEVE COOPER now knows how turkeys feel as they await an audience with Bernard Matthews this month.

At a requiem for Nottingham Forest's venerable manager, Cooper's players served up unacceptably halfbaked dross and two-goal Raul Jimenez administered the Paxo.

Despite the marvellous backing of 2,800 emissaries from Trent Bridge belting out their support for Cooper, Forest's fifth defeat in six games told its own grim story.

With owner Evangelos Marinakis looking down with a face like thunder, Cooper wore the resigned look of a condemned man.

Fulham, classy and clinical, won't bank an easier three points all season.