By Betting Zone
March 31 2007

Middlesbrough coach Colin Cooper admits he is not yet ready for management after seeing the pressure heaped upon former team-mates Stuart Pearce and Gareth Southgate.

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The 40-year-old has been elevated to the role of first team coach at the Riverside Stadium following Steve Round's departure, and is enjoying the step up from reserve team level.

But, while the move into management remains a long-term ambition, the experiences of his current boss Southgate and fellow Nottingham Forest old boy Pearce have persuaded him the time is not yet right.

Southgate has endured a rollercoaster first season at the helm at the Riverside Stadium following his shock appointment last summer, while Pearce's job was hanging by a thread before last weekend's 2-0 Barclays Premiership victory on Teesside.

Cooper said: "If you go into management and think everything is going to be rosy, then you are very naive.

"Today I look at people I played with and respected to see how they cope with management.

"Stuart Pearce is one of the strongest characters I have ever played with in my life, and if it is too much for him, I feel it is too much for me at the present time.

"Gareth is very tactically astute and a lot calmer both on and off the pitch.

"At the moment, I would like to think I am somewhere in between the two, if I am being honest."

Like Southgate, Cooper was still registered as a player last season, although unlike the 36-year-old, he played only a minor role on the pitch.

His appearance as a substitute at the age of 39 at Fulham on the final day of the Premiership campaign was his 421st for the club from which he emerged through the ranks in two spells either side of distinguished stints with Millwall and Forest.

Having cut his teeth as a coach with the reserves, he was appointed second string boss and then as Southgate reshuffled his staff, joined the first-team ranks.

Intensely committed as a player, he has taken all his passion into the latest phase of his career and is relishing his role at the club.

He told Boro's official website, www.mfc.co.uk: "I wear my heart on my sleeve - I always do - and I do not get myself too up or down before, during or after games.

"My role is probably higher up the ladder than I thought it would be in my coaching life.

"At the moment, I am thoroughly enjoying it and the future will take care of itself.

"For now, I am very happy to be doing what I am doing."

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