After relegation from League One last season, Colin Cooper has been handed the chance of his first managerial role and the former Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough defender is under no illusions as to the size of it.
"If anyone sits here and pretends that you haven't got a real tough job on your hands then I think they are living in a world that doesn't exist," he told BBC Tees.
Northampton and Hartlepool last met in a Johnstone’s Paint Trophy in August 2010 which resulted in a heavy win for ‘Pools.
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