Well David Coote could be looking for a new job soon or at the very least won't be reffing Liverpool games in the future. I won't post the video due to the language but somebody has just released a video of him from a few years ago calling Klopp a 'German ****' after Klopp had a go at him during a game.
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Tbf I'm not sure it proves any bias (however Liverpool twitter have now listed 101 dodgy decisions he's given against us) and even the fact he's called Klopp a **** I have little issue with (Klopp was a **** to officials after all) but the xenophobic remark at the end of the video is what's going to kill him. And possibly the fact that he looks completely off his head in the video too.
You've described the first part of the video, he then makes some joke about social distancing (the video was taken during covid) and then goes back to say 'but yea, he's a German ****, **** me'. Saying that would result in a minimum of a 6 game ban for a player (the FA's rules are crystal clear regarding any insult referencing race, religion, nationality etc) - there's not a chance a referee gets let off saying that.
The Mirror are reporting that Coote is denying the video is real but if it is, he's getting a massive ban as a bare minimum.
If it is fake then the quality of the fake and the detail of what he says is something else. The incident Coote is referring to is from an inconsequential match vs Burnley over 4 and a half years ago where (perfectly calmly) Klopp says to Coote at the end of the match 'you have to be honest' in reference to a mistake Coote made. For somebody to know and remember that and be talented enough to make that video is a bit of an ask.
I don't think Coote is bias, I think he's rubbish but not bias. They'd have been the wrong decisions but had Coote wanted to, he had the opportunity to give Villa 2 pens at the weekend but he didn't.
Parking the xenophobia to one side (which is what could and should cost him his job), the problem these comments cause is that it fuels the paranoia that already exists in so many supporters. I think it was when he was interviewed on the overlap that Webb made the point that nobody accepts officials making mistakes anymore. When they make a mistake it's because they're corrupt now. Anything that happens in football that supporters don't like, it's corruption. I'm sure @woppy101 started this phenomenon.
Parking the xenophobia to one side (which is what could and should cost him his job), the problem these comments cause is that it fuels the paranoia that already exists in so many supporters. I think it was when he was interviewed on the overlap that Webb made the point that nobody accepts officials making mistakes anymore. When they make a mistake it's because they're corrupt now. Anything that happens in football that supporters don't like, it's corruption. I'm sure @woppy101 started this phenomenon.
It's probably nonsense but twitter investigators have concluded that it's vengeful Villa fans after he didn't give them a penalty at the weekend. It feels a bit 2+2=5 after the first video was shot the night Coote was 4th official when Villa beat Liverpool and the videos have come out after Liverpool have beat Villa in a match where Villa fans felt hard done by. The theory is Coote's ended up at a post match party with some Villa fans but that seems rather speculative. It doesn't look like he knows the other guy in the video (or doing the filming) particularly well but there's nothing to suggest he's a Villa fan.