I was almost ready to write almost the exact thing you wrote earlier in the day. Not a great day for AR1, who I believe was Beswick of the Beswick/Nunn duo that usually works with Oliver.
May have been a sound/sync thing. The replay shown later, from well above the field, showed Oliver raising the whistle to his mouth (and tweeted) before the free kick was taken.
Also interesting that Caicedo seemed to have the Joelinton invisibility cloak for avoiding yellows. Other players---for both clubs---were booked much more quickly for less egregious fouls.
Just watched this play on the replay of the LIV-AVL game. It's absolutely mind-blowing that David Coote did not have a "DOGSO" foul on Salah (yes, I know the advantage ended up negating the DOGSO, but I'll still use the term in quotes since Salah had an OGSO) leading up to the Nunez goal). It's a clear pull back on Salah's shoulder. If Coote gives the advantage and the caution - even if Nunez doesn't score on his shot - we are all on here talking about what a magnificent piece of refereeing that is instead of (correctly) saying that Coote got REALLY lucky Nunez scored.
To be fair, not one lie was told about Klopp. Straight up ass-hole. But yeah, you can't be on video saying that. What a great friend he has had. Says, we can't have the video released and yet releases it anyways.
I don’t disagree with a word you say here. All of it is true. The sad and unfortunate reality is that anyone in a public position has to assume anything said or done could eventually be completely public one day. When I worked in the public school system, I assumed any email I sent would eventually be on the front page of the local paper or on a local newscast. Even though I’m back in the private sector now, I still assume that. It’s why I never post on social media and rarely even look at it anymore.
I've always thought Coote looked like he'd rather be anywhere else than on the field. Petition granted.
True, but this site would never come up on any sort of reasonable public search. I’m talking about the usual mainstream sites. Plus, I don’t think someone discussing a controversial referee call under a pseudonym will bring up a major firestorm.
This week’s edition of “Dale’s word salad” is now available. https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_...ailey-red-card-mohamed-salah-wolves-get-lucky Dale must have been on a word count for the Salah incident. Here’s a more concise version. “Because Nunez had a better obvious goal scoring opportunity, even if Coote had recognized the foul and played advantage he should not have sent Bailey off for DOGSO. A caution would have been the appropriate misconduct sanction.”
Does he survive and come back from this? We saw an AR elbow a Liverpool player and made it out. Clattenburg had multiple on-field and off-field incidents and made it back. Problem is Coote isn't as good as any of those guys.
The “elbow” thing was never a big deal IMO. The AR reflexively flinched when someone approached him from behind him and contacted him. Not sure how you assign much/any moral blame on him for that, tbh. Quite a different story here…
Maybe not for you, but it was pretty big controversy back when it happened and many were speculating he would be done for the season and maybe forever. I think he was temporarily suspended pending investigation. It only looks minor in hindsight now that it's passed.
I mean if you are going to commit career suicide, I guess you may as well make sure about the job. And he certainly did that.
Is he vulnerable to legal sanction for this? I know (believe) UK law and US law differ on slander/libel, but I'm not sure quite how.
Corey Rockwell should discuss controversial calls here under his pseudonym, no one would ever detect anything
The Coote video looks AI-generated to me, and I really hope that’s the case. Hoping the investigation is quick.
I'm interested in what you're seeing that makes you think it could be a fake. I'm not sure what to look for here.
Some of us may remember that way back in the earlier days of Twitter, one Alex Prus (then still an active MLS referee) posted regularly. Then one day he had a Sounders/Chivas USA game where he was advised by Ricardo Salazar to send off a player from each for VC in front of the benches. A while later, Prus said something on Twitter along the lines that he wouldn't have sent them off if he has seen the incident himself. His social media activity dropped off after that, at least under his own name.