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?
David Coote being confronted by Jurgen Klopp. The referee has been suspended pending a full investigation of a video showing him making derogatory comments about the former Liverpool boss. Photograph: Oli Scarff/NMC Pool/PA WireLet’s take a look at your best bits. Not sending off Jordan Pickford for an attempted amputation at Goodison Park.
Perhaps PGMOL should turn this whole cycle into a regular post-match feature: shit-talking late-night videos of a glassy-eyed referee explaining the weekend’s big calls by insulting people on a sofa, which would at least be more interesting than Michael Owen agreeing with Howard Webb. At this point it is worth keeping a discrete handle on what has actually been said. The video lasts just over a minute. Coote appears accompanied by a beaming companion.
The second point, and it will not be a popular one, is that we also need to be careful of David Coote now. Yes, he has behaved idiotically. But Coote is also a fragile, breakable human being like the rest of us and this incident is going to make his life incredibly difficult for a long time. What is the reasonable response to this as a working environment? Because a normal person is going to end up spitting it all back out at some point. While this may be wretched behaviour, it is hardly inexplicable.
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