David Coote should have been fired by PGMOL, but the reaction to the leaked Jurgen Klopp Incult video was exaggerated, the renowned referee Mark Clattenburg tells the new post football podcast

David Coot earned to be dismissed by PGMOL after he admitted that they took cocaine, but the global response to a leaked video where the former referee formerly insulted Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp Was exaggerated, Mark Clattenburg told Whistleblowers, a new podcast for e -mail footballIn collaboration with Wickes TradePro.

The world-famous referee and fellow guesthouse of the new Podcast Clattenburg compared the video, which seemed to show an intoxicated Coote that the German manager called a ‘****’, with ‘Scherts in a pub’.

He added that not enough is being done to protect referees against the pressure of the game at the highest level.

Whistleblowers is a brand new football podcast organized by Omroep Gordon Smart, e-mail football editor Ian Ladyman and ex-elite referee Mark Clattenburg.

From what really happens in the referee’s room, to how clubs run crises and pull the strings behind the scenes – whistleblowers brings the inner stories that only those who can tell in the heart of the game.

Mark Clattenburg compared the video, which seemed to show an intoxicated David Coote that Jurgen Klopp A ‘****’, with ‘Scherts in a pub’. Listen now

Co-host Ian Ladyman shared Clattenburg’s sympathy for Coote, but said that the video did the ‘entire referee community a huge bad service’. Listen now

Whistleblowers is a brand new football podcast organized by Omroep Gordon Smart, e-mail football editor Ian Ladyman and ex-elite referee Mark Clattenburg. Listen now

Asked if Coote was treated unfairly by PGMOL, Clattenburg said: ‘No, because if he had a problem with drugs, he should have go to them for support.

“They would have supported him. Forget Liverpool’s stuff – that is chatter in a pub. I have been guilty with friends in the past.

‘Unfortunately, now, with recording devices and so on, the world has changed, but we have all been to the pub and had a little chat about football. I probably said things about managers and players.

‘I’m not sure if that was a career-end moment for him. It was the drug problem, especially in high -profile competitions.

“Coote allowed it to come out without any mechanism. I think that is where his career became difficult. ‘

Clattenburg, who referred almost 400 Premier League matches and the 2016 Champions League final, said he had some sympathy for Coote after the video appeared.

“As a referee, if you don’t speak a little – they call you arrogant,” said Clattenburg.

‘If you are gone, you always try to manage situations – people always ask what is and so.

Coote was fired by the PGMOL about a series of leaked videos that emerged last year

“You try to make a joke of it – but nowadays nobody knows with jokes, at what level you have that joke.”

Co-host Ladyman shared Clattenburg’s sympathy for Coote, but said that the video did the ‘entire referee community a huge bad service’ by nourishing the suspicions of fans about bias in the official.

Doorbell images that were originally shared by the sun showed Coote at work as a delivery person while serving his 16-month suspension from football.

The original Kloppvideo was reportedly recorded in 2020 after the controversial 1-1 draw of Liverpool against Burnley, in which Andy Robertson saw the English referee angry after he had not received a fine.

“So many people there in the weird world in which we now live are conspiracy theorists,” Ladyman said.

‘Football supporters are nowadays convinced that referees really act against their club. What Coote did play on that.

“It gave substance to the crazy edge and their theories – it gave them credibility.”

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