If there's something that the last few years in broken propoganda led britain has taught us, it's that if you don't tell them, nobody else is doing, and they wont know.
It's sort of a public service.
There's not a debate really...you think that Cooper demonstrated multiple periods of sub-optimal performance, and I think in context that's an idiotic position to hold. Presumably by idiots who the world has turned into febrile illogical reactionaries, with all the nuance and understanding of a furiously wanking chimp. I would argue that you don't have to fall in line.
Now. On mature reflection. With what he had at his disposal, and in the context of where he was deploying his trade, and the experience of other teams around him mostly with superior resources (Leicester, Leeds, etc), how many actually demonstrably sub-optimal spells do you really think that he had?