Don’t presume you screenshotted it yourself? I read it. Blackmailing/chatting up/seducing/grooming 15-16-17 yo refs. Shirt off, using Snapchat which auto deletes, but it was screenshotted. Pretty messy stuff.
Him and a bunch of other clowns that came out yesterday saying that Liverpool fans were making too big of a deal of this.
The Sun have released a video of Premiere League referee David Coote snorting white powder during the EUROs… pic.twitter.com/iphGISQqvX— Luxe ✧ (@luxcurv) November 13, 2024
things happening fast with this thing. just a checkpoint. so far with Coote we have: 1. two videos of him and some bloke on a sofa. Coote looks weird and many say looks like he's under the influence of illegal drugs. in one video he calls Klopp a C*nt and agrees that he hates Scousers. in the other he says "make sure this vidoe never gets out" or words to that effect. this video Coote has admitted is factual. 2. the above video posted by Oranje of Coote snorting coke during the Euro2024 competition, where he was working as a VAR (I think?). this is a video that he apparently shot himself, and sent to a friend. 3. a series of posts on X from a guy making allegations - second hand allegations, not about his own experience - that Coote behaved in an illegal manner toward a teenage boy, and including sections of messages from that young man. AFAIK none of this is verified as yet. is that an accurate summary?
Yes, except in the coke snorting video its kinda hard to tell if its really him or not. So far he hasnt denied its him though
I was lucky enough to go to the Brighton match last year that he reffed. Every lad in the kop was calling him a Pedo. At the time I just assumed they were using it as a generic insult, but in hindsight it seems like they knew something. So if the entire Kop knew it how didn't the PGMOL?
This is someone with serious addiction problems. I hope he gets help, but there is no way he should be reffing games of importance until (or if ever) he gets himself cleaned up, and I don’t think he should be near a field for a long time.
in a hugely (un)surprising turn of events, Gary Neville disagrees with you hubba. there's no need to fire Coote, just don't put him on LFC games. and this is a guy who gets paid a fortune to talk about football. jesus wept.
Who’s up for a drug fuelled party at a tawdry Travelodge? There’ll be booze and teenage refs and they won’t be checking for handball.
But everyone - he needs to get help - not lose his job!!! This is a stitch-up, after all. It was unfair for the world to learn of a biased, xenophobic, and drugged up referee (and other things) who is supposed to impartial - and learn that he is not. Your fault - not his!
Because (a) - the rule is because of performance enhancement possibilities and (b) it's not a police state and what they do in their own time is their own business (and the general legal framework's business). They are not competing in anything they can gain an advantage in. (Should he be removed from premier league officiating if found to have been driving under the influcence or withotu a license, etc) Why stop there - why not test the fans at games randomly - they might, you know, shout something illegally obstreperous if they are on drugs....?? Bringing the game into disrepute.
Thats not true. A referee who has a serious drug problem then becomes a target for criminals to try and bribe him to fix matches. Which may very well have happened given the strange refereeing decisions Coote made in the past
I am broadly against random drug testing but I could see how it could be useful here. While occasional use theoretically wouldn't be a problem having an addict as a ref is a massive problem. Being an elite prem ref is already a highly competitive industry. If someone is willing to put that at risk over cocaine then they shouldn't be a ref in the first place.