Yep. It's systemic.
What PGMOL will try to do with this is present itself as having punished Coote and cleaned house. Borrowing an idea from Sara Ahmed, but institutional processes will often sacrifice one or two bad eggs to reinforce the whole rotten institution.
Apparently PGMOL knew of this video immediately in 2020 when it was filmed but then covered it up.
Now say shit like his welfare is the most important. Come on.
Corrupt organisation
Clrnc Apparently PGMOL knew of this video immediately in 2020 when it was filmed but then covered it up.
Now say shit like his welfare is the most important. Come on.
You've gotta assume they all know of countless dialogues and messages where clubs, coaches and players are being slagged off. Makes perfect sense they wouldn't regard this one as an outlier warranting action.
By the way, the neck of The Sun to write headlines about the 'shock' of someone doing cocaine, like they aren't queueing for the bathroom stalls every weekend themselves.
Burnwinter No idea what this is, but the idea of one of these refs being a sex pest is gross.
There are pictures of these refs with hookers out in Thailand I think, all of them taking photos. Alleged links to Asia betting syndicates as well but hard to prove that.
Clrnc Now say shit like his welfare is the most important. Come on.
People in the media have already started with that, he needs help blah blah. Mental heath has become the go to excuse when it comes to cover ups.
Burnwinter Not to absolve or defend Coote, but if I'm put in a position where I've got to stand on a touchline and have abuse screamed in my face from the likes of Klopp, without him receiving any meaningful reprimand for it, I'd have pretty colourful views on him as well.
I also think it shouldn't be a problem for people to both hold contrary views of individuals and be trusted to ref impartially. You would expect any professional to act within the rules, referees included.
The problem is that in many cases perceived bias and impartiality is being conflated with incompetence and poor structures, and resulting in some wild conspiracies.
That's separate from the clear conflicts in picking up ref jobs abroad linked to PL clubs.
My apologies, Indonesian hookers not Thai.
JazzG Yep, that's gross. Fucking sex creeps on tour.
This just gets better and better.
So he did some coke, fucked some hos, and insulted someone he didn’t like.
He ought to be executed. Firing squad.
Don’t care much for this story if I’m honest. His crime is poor judgement, which ironically is the real problem for me, and why I think he has to go, as that’s basically what his job is all about.
What they get up to in their spare time is their business, but he can’t be letting this shit get recorded on video.
flobaba I agree about not going to judge someone on specific actions even if I personally disagree with them. His poor judgement means that those private actions have become public and there does have to be accountability for those decisions. For me it means you can't be a referee as someone with a public profile and requiring trust that's gone now.
My bigger issue is what did the PGMOL know, if you were made aware of that incidents and don't have a means to intervene or discipline appropriately then you really aren't fit for purpose. What happens if he was a drug addict and it could be impacting his decisions? From the stories it looks like they aren't discrete so doesn't seem likely nobody have known something is going on that might need action.
Coote on the Toot
Now I’m getting at the stage of worrying about this guys mental wellbeing
My advice to him : announce tomorrow you are quitting reffing for good. Start a ‘fun’ podcast. Will be rich over night.
Podcast could be called ‘Beyond the white line’ 
“Surely he should have been concentrating on the game and not arranging drug parties” 
Sicario2 - Tier 1 Podcast could be called ‘Beyond the white line’
A disgraced ex-ref hosting a podcast called "White Lines" with this as the intro theme would probably kill the market.
Just gonna leave this here.
You can talk about our inadequate attack all you want, but in my view we've just been fucked out of another two points.
They've been inventing new reasons to fuck us all season. As Arteta said post match it took them "three seconds" to look into this incorrect decision and double down.
