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[Football] David Coote



Triggaaar

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I absolutely think that Coote has been forced or compromised into giving the interview. It’s standard practice from that rag.

I can’t see why he’d benefit from knocking at their door with the intention of spreading his truth as it really doesn’t add up to me in a cost/benefit type of way. I think the Sun hunted him down and black mailed him.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but blackmail is illegal.
 




Hugo Rune

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I'm not saying you're wrong, but blackmail is illegal.
Yes, too strongly worded on my part.

Perhaps the paper contacted Mr Coote with a story they were going to go to print with. The communications would have been along the lines of ‘we’re running with this story but perhaps we can go with your version in a special exclusive and then we don’t have to mention x, y and z’.
 




aolstudios

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Yes, too strongly worded on my part.

Perhaps the paper contacted Mr Coote with a story they were going to go to print with. The communications would have been along the lines of ‘we’re running with this story but perhaps we can go with your version in a special exclusive and then we don’t have to mention x, y and z’.
Exactly this.
Blackmail without actual law breaking
 


Triggaaar

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Yes, too strongly worded on my part.

Perhaps the paper contacted Mr Coote with a story they were going to go to print with. The communications would have been along the lines of ‘we’re running with this story but perhaps we can go with your version in a special exclusive and then we don’t have to mention x, y and z’.

Yes I agree, although (being that I'm not up on the law) I'm not sure a paper is allowed to out someone without good reason (eg an MP extoling family values whilst being dishonest about their family life). Coote is yesterday's news, he'd gone, so I'm not sure they'd have a good reason to out him. But regardless, maybe you're right.
 






Guinness Boy

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Hopefully a few years out of the spotlight reffing in another country a la Bobby Madley and he could return.
The cynic in me says there are agents lining up at his door already. A book. An appearance in the jungle with Ant n Dec. Pride appearances. Get clean and be an anti drugs ambassador. LGBTQ+ football campaigner.

I’d worry about his mental health far more than his financial health.
 














ClemFandango

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I absolutely think that Coote has been forced or compromised into giving the interview. It’s standard practice from that rag.

I can’t see why he’d benefit from knocking at their door with the intention of spreading his truth as it really doesn’t add up to me in a cost/benefit type of way. I think the Sun hunted him down and black mailed him.
What he has done is textbook PR. Make a very public mea culpa after a scandal before moving on with your life. He comes across very well in the video interview
 








MJsGhost

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What's the difference between him and footballers testing positives.

6 months ban, test him regularly and let him back.

I'm shocked they are not drugs tested already?
Testing for illegal drugs maybe, but why the need for testing for performance enhancing drugs?

With the standard of reffing as it is, maybe it should be encouraged?!
 


abc

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I reckon the deal was simple. The Scum were about to expose his sexuality or something he wanted to remain private unless he did the interview.

They are shameless and I hope they are investigated post-Harry and shut down.

That said, I think we need to take a long hard look at ourselves.

Refs are human beings. Like all of us they make mistakes. Like all of us, they deserve to be allowed a life free from fear outside of football.

Perhaps we should do away with them and let AI ref games. But then, who would we rail at? The machines?

If someone is making death threats towards refs they need to just grow up. And the rest of us need to root them out and stop it. Coote’s actions and words aside - clearly said in private drunken moments - do not allow any of us to pursue refs in this way.

Oliver’s red card was in our view a subjective mistake. But it was subjective. We shouldn’t be hanging him out to dry for it.

I need to remember this at the next game I’m at. I’m happy to use the ref as the panto villain on the stage, but the second the final whistle blows it stops.

These guys spend 90 minutes of their lives each game trying to both ref the rules and see through the cheating antics of 22 players. Let’s remember that. They are going to make mistakes because players are setting traps.

#TeamRef

Excellent post and spot on in every respect.

Some very judgemental people, who apparently live perfect lives, on this thread
 




Herr Tubthumper

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Come on he can’t go back to reffing in this country he will get slaughtered, the same as Greenwood can’t ever play in the PL again.
I disagree. He was a decent ref from what I can recall. I think most would be in his side.
 




DavidinSouthampton

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Seems like you are condemning Coote here not the newsparer?

And yes - once the story was running anyway, it would be a bit silly to refuse the money when a Tabloid is going to print crap about you anyway but offers you a chance to “sell” your side of the story before it goes to print. All tabloid papers work like that, not just the Sun - the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror too.

Of course it produces the sensationalism and gossip content that characterises tabloid journalism and is usually utter tripe about celebrity culture and sports stars but that’s another issue.
But it also gives him the opportunity to make points about the pressure on referees, the fear of coming out and the pressure that brings, and to apologise.
I have a daughter who is gay, aged 40, in a civil partnership, very good job, three sons between them, but has often mentioned “it’s not easy being gay”, and she’s not high profile in the public eye.
 


Hugo Rune

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What he has done is textbook PR. Make a very public mea culpa after a scandal before moving on with your life. He comes across very well in the video interview
I think he has done the opposite to moving on with his life. He has everyone talking about him again. That’s not meant to be the life of a ref, you’re not meant to notice them. Surely he’d just want to disappear from the public gaze and get on with his life after the recent media driven pursuit of him?

If he wants to tell his story, the Sun is the last place he should go. It’ll looks hypocritical, shoddy, dirty and entirely money driven when it’s that rag. That’s why I still believe they made him do the story.
 


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