Premier League Referee David Coote suspended after video shared on social media

This latest one is the first actual allegation of wrongdoing on the pitch, correct (though every team probably has 10 incidents of wrongdoing against them in every game)?

He is a poor referee based on his decision making, both on and off the pitch - his poorest decisions are seemingly his choice of friends who are happy to leak sensitive information.

Hopefully this is the last we hear of him and he goes away to get clean/sober and retrained in a new profession.

It's funny cos the yellow card in question he had no choice with. He was probably delighted it happened

Hard to feel sorry for him tbh. You have to deal with the consequences of your actions. That's life.

No….

But he was definitely filmed calling Klopp a *not nice person* because Klopp is a *not nice person* 😂

Coote is a fool, no doubt about it (everything that has come out has shown he was just a ticking time bomb) but there is also a massive issue with what is allowed to be directed towards the ref at all levels of football. You won't attract a better level of professional into the game if most of your life is you being abused by players, manager and then fans outside the pitch.

2 of those can be very easily controlled.

Edit : Fixed my poor use of language there

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But like, they're literally the ones who can dictate what is ok to say to them… like, they can give a yellow or red card to a manager who's overstepping any time at all. There wouldn't even be controversy - Klopp's gotten a few and each time just said 'yeah, fair enough'. Same with Slot recently. You actually rarely hear managers getting pissy about getting a card - they might complain about the reffing that led to it, but when it comes to their behaviour it's there for everyone to see and they usually take it on the chin.

It's just such an easily rectified issue that they're in complete control of themselves already, but for some reason are weirdly inconsistent about when to exercise those powers.

it might be if they actually used them with more frequency and consistency. Give a yellow and at worst it immediately shuts their mouth for the rest of the day. If it’s egregious enough, give a red. Like, it’s obviously a useful tool which they’re just far too reluctant to use.

They’ve been pushing the whole ‘respect’ campaign for aeons at this stage, but don’t back it up themselves.

I just don’t think there’s much credibility in complaining about behaviour when you’re in the exact direct role to police that behaviour, and then don’t.