Nobody in the world will despute that it’s dogso if it’s a foul, I’m not strongly opposed to it being a foul but I think it’s very soft. As I said, I’m not convinced that the fall is consequential of the contact, neither am I convinced that the contact was impactful.
You're right, one missed KPI (however obvious) doesn't make a poor performance. The fact he had a wildly erratic foul/caution threshold, complete failure to act against multiple delayed restarts and some basic out of play decisions wrong is why his overall performance was poor.
Come on David, I normally agree with most things you say. But he was poor.
Can't tell from that image whether it's an earring or not.
IF the video is real. Wouldn't shock me if it was AI. Seems a touch coincidental that this comes out straight after Coote refereeing Liverpool.
Referees are held to a higher standard, in the same way police are. Look at France a few years ago; a referee kicked out at a player and was sacked. If roles were reversed, player would likely get a ban but not be sacked.
Removed that part of the post because I agree that we are held to a higher standard. Not sure I agree it should be a career ender though, although it would potentially be difficult for him to officiate on Liverpool games again.
They could stop him refereeing Liverpool games. But then he wouldn’t really be able to referee any games of rivals of Liverpool, as the accusations would end up coming.
How do they deal with this stuff in the SPFL, cos I imagine that about 60% of refs in the professional game up there support(ed) one of the big two.
They just don't bother with that kind of stuff, and if they tried to bring in anything like that then I don't think it would work either due to how 'tribal' certain things are in Scotland. Referees can declare a conflict of interest if appropriate though - main example in recent times has been Steven McLean never refereed his brother Brian.
