From snorting coke to moaning he was ‘too big’ to ref Coventry, nine moments in David Coote’s downfall
From snorting coke to moaning he was ‘too big’ to ref Coventry, nine moments in David Coote’s downfall
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TWO days after his Klopp comments went viral, The Sun revealed on November 13 Coote snorted cocaine in a video taken on July 6 while he was officiating at the Euros. COOTE: “The drugs happened on an entirely ad-hoc basis. It fills me with a huge sense of shame to sit here and to say that I took that route.”.
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COOTE said in video chats table toppers Liverpool “will not win the Premier League”. COOTE: “I guess I’m a human being who made a mistake in a moment I now deeply regret.”. THE ref branded the Reds defender Andy Robertson a “Scottish p****.”.
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COOTE: “I certainly don’t think that. Everybody who takes to the football field is full of emotion. When we’re involved in the game, things will be said that people don’t mean. "I’m pretty sure there’s been plenty of players or managers that have said things about me they wouldn’t sit here and say they believe. The same is true of us as match officials.”.
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HE said Everton’s Goodison Park was the worst place to referee, due to the fans “shouting abuse so close to the pitch”. COOTE: “It’s certainly not the worst place to officiate. Each ground, depending on how the result goes, can be just as difficult as any other.
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"So there’s no particular ground that’s more difficult than the other because it’s all really circumstance dependent.”. COOTE said he hates officiating at Bournemouth games because it is “too far away”. COOTE: “We’re asked to go north, south, east and west, and all over Europe.
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