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Former ref David Coote - charged with possession of CSA material (p14)
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He was the VAR.soapboxsam said:redman said:
He actually has a history of bad decisions against Liverpool. The Pickford foul on Van Dyke being the worst. He wasn't going to give the foul on Salah on Sunday, which Nunez scored. Several other contentious decisions. The worst decision was not awarding a penalty against Rodri a few years back which handed City the title over Liverpool.HastingsRed said:Read on Wiki that he was the VAR ref when Pickford done Van Dijk, where Pickford went unpunished.
David Coote (referee) - Wikipedia
Coote made a sign meaning no foul on Salah but
Michael Oliver was the Ref the day the assault on Van Dijk by Pickford took place.
Was Coote the 4th official or the VAR that day ?
He definitely wasn't the ref.
VAR checked to see if Van Dijk was offside which he was and didn't bother with the karate scissors kick which ending up in a ACL injury.1 -
A new video is online of him doing a line of coke.Would say a few on here have done the same, does he deserve to have his life ruined? The sun as per creating a potential suicide,
scum journos as per that would do anything to sell a story.14 -
Ben Kitt, the guy 'allegedly' sitting next to him and probably filmed it, has been suspend as well https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/david-coote-liverpool-klopp-referee-340954170
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Not just the Sun. Daily Mail, The Independent,GB News,Daily Star, Daily Express. The Metro are headlining that this took place during Euro 2024.palarsehater said:A new video is online of him doing a line of coke.Would say a few on here have done the same, does he deserve to have his life ruined? The sun as per creating a potential suicide,
scum journos as per that would do anything to sell a story.
But I get your point Mr Cootes should not be reading any of the morning papers. Probably would need a councillor once the dust settles.1 -
He’ll get cancelled and hung out to dry by the woke mob. The good thing now, is that there is always a place for people that have made mistakes in Saudi. I imagine he’ll be officiating out there within a couple of months.2
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Just makes me laugh a line of coke and some choice language about a manager and the man gets made to be a menace it’s a regular Saturday for me…. I jest4
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Ultimately his biggest issue is being dim around cameras, although I suspect snorting lines will be enough to have broken his contract0
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Honestly any of my mates recorded us doing shit like that over the years they’d be getting a slap from the rest of us.16
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The bigger question here is, who else had these videos, has pressure been put on him to make certain decisions in favour of any bets placed?3
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He must’ve shagged his mates wife for him to be leaking all these vids1
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Unless there’s a longer one I haven’t seen, how can anyone even verify that’s Coote doing the line?0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXgr5EA3duk - sky have done just thatJaShea99 said:Unless there’s a longer one I haven’t seen, how can anyone even verify that’s Coote doing the line?
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Getting a lot of love on X from football fans. Valley Gary summed it up above and that’s pretty much the view of the football fan community3
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New idea for society.
When someone has a drug problem rather than sacking them we help them. That way someone’s life isn’t ruined, and a family life isn’t ruined.4 -
Even talking about it outside of the sesh itself is cringe as fuck never mind recording it.ValleyGary said:Honestly any of my mates recorded us doing shit like that over the years they’d be getting a slap from the rest of us.0 -
Since when did this obsession start with everyone and anyone needing to be ‘sacked’ or ‘step down’? You can’t open the news nowadays without about a 100 articles telling you why the head of McDonald’s needs to be sacked because Karen got served a Big Mac instead of a cheeseburger at the local Maccies etc or why the local primary school teacher should be dismissed because she swore once when she was 12.
Whenever anyone does anything wrong ever there now seems to be an automatic assumption now that they must immediately be sacked, tarred, feathered and sent down the pits for 28 years like it will somehow make everything all better.Hopefully those calling for his head will sleep easy at night if he does lose his job. Let’s get this monster off our streets who used a naughty word to describe an ex football manager and did a line of coke on a night out. Will anyone’s life be materially better because this guy loses his job, livelihood and reputation? Or actually, could everyone accept we all make mistakes and he has just been very unfortunate that his mistakes have been filmed, and shared by people he no doubt trusted.
As others have rightly pointed out, the first video is naive however he clearly believes he is amongst friends. He will not be the first or last person to record something silly when in the company of people they trust, nor will he be the first or last to discover you have to be very careful who you trust nowadays. I detest drugs but he is a fully grown man who is capable of making his own decisions and is one of hundreds of thousands of people who have chosen to do drugs at some point in their life. If we sacked everyone who had done a line of coke at some point our economy would collapse.
At what point did so many people stop trying to put theirselves in the shoes of others and think how their actions must be making them feel?
It must be a horrible place for him to be in right now. It has probably taken him decades to get to the top flight of professional football and clearly his position is under threat. Whilst top flight referees are well paid I doubt it is well enough paid that he could choose to retire into the sunset so there will be all the financial considerations to take into account as well as potentially losing a career he has worked exceptionally hard for and having to see this all unfold in the papers, as will his family and (proper) friends.
Let’s be clear, he has made some mistakes and will need to answer to his employers for those but it’s not like he has taken a bung or been caught dealing crack to teenagers. The whole media pile on makes me sick, although I wouldn’t expect anything less from the S*n.
The only pile on should be on whoever decided they wanted to try and wreck their mates life by sharing videos clearly taken in private. Pathetic.14 -
This is a dire situation the bloke has found himself in, in the cold light of day he hasnt done anything that 1000's of people do all the time, however in his position he should never have put himself in that situation. His career is now completely untenable, the chants from the stands if he ever set foot on a pitch again would be too much0
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If a person takes cocaine would it affect aspects of refereeing in a negative way? Like blurred eyesight, or forgetting the laws of the game, or sleepiness, or slow down the ability to run or some such stuff?1
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Careless behaviour to be saying what he said and having it recorded. But that video was from a couple of years ago I believe.
Also careless to be caught doing a line of coke - especially if it was during the Euros this year (that's a bit more daft)
But the fact is there's a couple of years between the videos - but he has pupils like saucers in both - could suggest the cocaine is slightly more than occasional recreational use. That's indicative of a bigger issue and will lead to a lot more scrutiny of anything he has done that is contentious.
Whilst I hate the whole media pile-on and cancel culture - this man has to be white than white in his line of work and he's just proven to be anything but that. He's literally got nobody to blame but himself but the housing of him is unlikely to end well7 - Sponsored links:
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Would probably improve the standard of officiating in League One if anything!seth plum said:If a person takes cocaine would it affect aspects of refereeing in a negative way? Like blurred eyesight, or forgetting the laws of the game, or sleepiness, or slow down the ability to run or some such stuff?4 -
I’m not sure we should assume he has a “drug problem” because he’s done a line of coke.BR7_addick said:New idea for society.
When someone has a drug problem rather than sacking them we help them. That way someone’s life isn’t ruined, and a family life isn’t ruined.
He was silly for doing this stuff on camera, and whomever leaked this stuff is a snake, but the bloke doesn’t need his life ruined over any of this.5 -
Lets be honest his life won't be (hopefully) ruined, but he'll (probably) just officiate lower leagues where he'll get shouted out about this. (lets be real if he is down at the Valley (vs Crawley or Mansfield) the Covered End is not going to let this issue slide away.se9addick said:
I’m not sure we should assume he has a “drug problem” because he’s done a line of coke.BR7_addick said:New idea for society.
When someone has a drug problem rather than sacking them we help them. That way someone’s life isn’t ruined, and a family life isn’t ruined.
He was silly for doing this stuff on camera, and whomever leaked this stuff is a snake, but the bloke doesn’t need his life ruined over any of this.1 -
Probably the opposite, lazy focused vision and an encyclopaedic knowledge of the laws. The only issue is he doesn’t shut up about a new business idea he’s come up with.seth plum said:If a person takes cocaine would it affect aspects of refereeing in a negative way? Like blurred eyesight, or forgetting the laws of the game, or sleepiness, or slow down the ability to run or some such stuff?8 -
If it was an elite player, i'm sure he'd be banned for a while, sent on some drug rehab course and then he'd come back and play. Given that he's a PL ref i'm going to assume he's considered an elite ref in England, so i don't see why he needs to lose his job.2
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Or conversely, he is massively compromised, has been wide open to blackmail for a number of years, and for a job that is supposed to require clear and sound judgement has shown all the intelligence of a dead whelk.
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What does the person releasing this footage want? For him to kill himself? No doubt if that were to happen the red tops who have caused it will be writing pleasant tributes to him.0
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Whatever happens in a kitchen at 5am stays in the kitchenBR7_addick said:
Even talking about it outside of the sesh itself is cringe as fuck never mind recording it.ValleyGary said:Honestly any of my mates recorded us doing shit like that over the years they’d be getting a slap from the rest of us.11 -
Premier League refs are professional whereas lower league refs are not, so if the outcome is as you predict then he’s effectively losing his job. He’s also losing the opportunity to work at the highest level of his industry which he must have worked hard for for a very long time. Additionally he’s having his name dragged through the mud on the front page of the papers.JustFloydRoad said:
Lets be honest his life won't be (hopefully) ruined, but he'll (probably) just officiate lower leagues where he'll get shouted out about this. (lets be real if he is down at the Valley (vs Crawley or Mansfield) the Covered End is not going to let this issue slide away.se9addick said:
I’m not sure we should assume he has a “drug problem” because he’s done a line of coke.BR7_addick said:New idea for society.
When someone has a drug problem rather than sacking them we help them. That way someone’s life isn’t ruined, and a family life isn’t ruined.
He was silly for doing this stuff on camera, and whomever leaked this stuff is a snake, but the bloke doesn’t need his life ruined over any of this.All of that is life ruining territory if you ask me. Not expecting sympathy for him, he’s been a wally, but we’re addicted to the annihilating people for relatively minor indiscretions in this country, it isn’t healthy.3 -
“So anyway as I was saying, if Roland woulda backed us after the play offs we’d probably be in Europe now, how fars the Uber?”Croydon said:
Whatever happens in a kitchen at 5am stays in the kitchenBR7_addick said:
Even talking about it outside of the sesh itself is cringe as fuck never mind recording it.ValleyGary said:Honestly any of my mates recorded us doing shit like that over the years they’d be getting a slap from the rest of us.6
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