EXCLUSIVE: 'I just don’t like dressing rooms being quiet': Nottingham Forest centre-back Steve Cook is bringing noise and intensity back to his team's changing room and admits his side 'believe they CAN stay up'

For a team at the wrong end of the Premier League, optimism abounds at Nottingham Forest.

Last weekend’s epic win against Liverpool was based on blood and thunder with a dash of total football thrown in.

Centre-half Steve Cook set up Taiyo Ayoniwi’s winner with an instinctive first-time cross from the wing.

Steve Cook (pictured) Taiyo Ayoniwi’s during their 1-0 win over Liverpool last week

‘As a defender, I know the hardest thing to deal with is an early ball, so that’s what I tried,’ he says.