David Coote (Former Premier League referee) (1 Viewer)

[Nick]

Now being investigated for spot fixing.

What a c*** of a mate who’s slowly drip feeding all this

Makes you wonder how many refs are at it.

Certainly seen some performances where they do a random early booking

 

[stupot07]

A really good article

Wretched, haunted but human: David Coote was made by modern football | Barney Ronay

Refereeing is basically a nightmare now. Is it really a huge surprise a Premier League official should end up brutalised and spitting toxins on a sofa?

www.theguardian.com

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

A really good article

Wretched, haunted but human: David Coote was made by modern football | Barney Ronay

Refereeing is basically a nightmare now. Is it really a huge surprise a Premier League official should end up brutalised and spitting toxins on a sofa?

www.theguardian.com

Yep

 

[Nick]

He's gone down the Schofield Playbook of coming out as gay to deflect from the actual point.

 

[stay_up_skyblues]

He's gone down the Schofield Playbook of coming out as gay to deflect from the actual point.

Looks that way. Gay, straight or bi he’s fucked up and brought the game into disrepute. But in practice I expect that shit rag had the story and gave him the option of doing the interview or they would run it.

 

[shmmeee]

Still think this is a cunty mate story more than anything. Blokes allowed to get wrecked and vent in his time off FFS a d yes even suck a few cocks while at it. Who gives a fuck? If he’s interfered in an actual game that’s one thing but this is tabloid gossip bollocks mostly.

 

[rob9872]

Players are banned for betting breaches, drug use, abusing others in the game. He has to be held to at least the same standards and it's more than one misdemeanor, however yep his mates are bellends and fay ir straight I'm not sure it should even be newsworthy these days.

 

[shmmeee]

Players are banned for betting breaches, drug use, abusing others in the game. He has to be held to at least the same standards and it's more than one misdemeanor, however yep his mates are bellends and fay ir straight I'm not sure it should even be newsworthy these days.

Players are banned for saying in private another player is a c**t? I doubt that. And they’re banned from performance enhancing drugs it’s just a witch hunt man. He said online about booking someone and then booked him.

People need to chill out. The standards we hold celebrities to just because they’re celebrities is ridiculous. Let the man live. Far more bothered about a shit reffing performance than a ref mouthing off to his mates on the after sesh.

 

[rob9872]

Players are banned for cocaine which was his drug of choice.
Players are banned for eg suggesting a throw in first minute and kicking it out of play.
Players are banned for speech that brings the game into disrepute.

I'm not sure why you want to fight the good fight in martyrdom on every subject at the moment. I won't deny it's a bit of a witch hunt, or that his sexuality isn't an issue, or that his mates aren't bellends, but quite simply he did wrong, no excuses and needs to own it and be gone from the game.

 

[robbiekeane]

i don’t think i’d even seen the videos until now and i just watched them and who gives a fuck? i really expected him to have said a lot more audacious shit than that…he’s obviously absolutely charged and just talking shit

people need to get a life

 

[ccfc922]

 

[Shannerz]

He's gone down the Schofield Playbook of coming out as gay to deflect from the actual point.

Schofield didn't do that, did he?

He came out, then all the dodgy stuff was much later.

Back on topic, morally, he hasn't done much wrong, but you can't be caught on camera when you're a high-profile ref snorting cocaine and calling a high-profile manager a c**t and get away with it, even if it's nothing most people would disagree with.

I feel a bit sorry for him, tbh; he's been stung by people far more odious than he is.