There’s a news management thing happens during the international break. Football news generally goes quiet, internationals do not really bring the same number of readers as the club game.
Games and results drive the football media business, with transfer ‘information’ dominating times in the calendar. If you are in the business of writing about football, as these breaks approach, you will maybe stick a piece up your sleeve, to bring out during the fortnight. You will spot everywhere, including here.
This week, UK football outlets have gorged on EPL referee, David Coote. Who seems to have a lassez-faire approach to actions and consequences. Two videos were made public this week.
In the first, from three years ago, he appears ‘tired and emotional’ to use the old euphemism, when making derogatory comments about Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp. The second, taken during this year’s Euros (where he was officiating), shows him snorting a white powder. As far as news management goes, someone has knocked it out the park this week.
It’s unlikely we will ever learn who was behind the leaks, although David Coote will surely know. Nor are we likely to learn what went before, and there has surely been some actions before this.
Football referees are as prone to weaknesses as the rest of us. If some are so weak they sniff white powder without checking for cameras, football has a problem. This week will end Coote’s career, with financial consequences for the rest of his life. How compromised was he?
It may be that he was only weak when it came to some videoed comments on superficial racism and illegal substances, while he remained beyond reproach to threats of ending his career if he did not bend to an extortion demand. Let’s hope.
Betting is huge business and the majority of betting on UK games takes place beyond these borders. Money is placed on more than just the result, too. A compromised referee is worth a fortune in the wrong hands.
David Coote is no longer vulnerable to exploitation and maybe the release of these videos is a consequence of him declining to participate in a wider criminal act. Any other referee who has been subject to the videoing of inappropriate acts has a lesson on what can happen. If referees are no different from the rest of society, some may take drugs, gamble themselves into debt and indulge in other nefarious activity.
The wages in England are huge and in Scotland are big enough to accommodate some intrusion. Credit checks, bank statement inspections and background checks would be a reasonable response to an outed human fraility.
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Basa you just beat me to the cheating comment.
No pen even in real time.I take no VAR available?
HHm
Apologies meant BADA
Timforlife- a couple of late challenges from the Sevco GK could have been penalties
MAESTRO on 17TH NOVEMBER 2024 11:23 AM
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https://www.followfollow.com/forum/threads/trophy-count.285345/
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Cheers for that. Cheered me right up.
Here’s one of my favourites from the comments…
It’s absolutely shameful that it has come to this, I read the other day that we were around 40 trophy’s ahead of them in the year 2000, they will overtake us this season and be out of sight in the coming years.
Their current captain and his predecessor have 44 winners medals between them, our captain has 3.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Oh the Rangers are 💩
Oh the Rangers are 💩
Oh the Rangers are 💩
Oh the Rangers are 💩
So feckin 💩
Hard luck the ghirls
Another Hun ref with a whistle cheated the Celtic ladies today. In the previous league game played last month at Airdrie Rangers went into a 2-0 lead due to being awarded a penalty kick for a foul which took place outside the box. We’re up against industrial scale cheating or incompetence. Elena Sadiku got a red card for protesting this. I’m suggesting that incompetence might be involved because I heard the Rangers manager, Jo Potter, say in a recent interview that the standard of officiating must improve. The officials had made an incredible number of wrong decisions during the game and she was making the point that most of the teams are professional and the officials are not up to the required standard.
Elena Sadiku was denied her say on Sky after the game, the officials banned her as she was sent off,that’s a new one on me….
eratic
Re the new stadium in Horoshima…..
“….within walking distance of the World famous Atomic Bomb Dome…”
I’m guessing they dont have a local version of Hail Hail
BORGO67 on 17TH NOVEMBER 2024 1:21 PM
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It’s really quite easy, all they have to do is ‘swallow the truth’. However they cling to the unsound logic of the lesser evil – “a big boy(company)done it and ran away’ and ‘Rangers’ were demoted to the bottom tier.
The obvious is worth stating time & time again.
Rangers Football Club was born in 1872 and incorporated in 1899. Once incorporated there is no difference between club and company. The club trades, produces accounts, pays taxes, competes in competitions, signs players, pays players and belongs to governing bodies – e.g. the SFA. Rangers FC/plc, the above club, was liquidated recently by BDO and is officially dead.
The new club that started out in 2012 as Se***5088, then Se*** Scotland, is now incorporated with a new company number SC437060 as THE RANGERS INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL CLUB PLC. It has won three major honours: one League Title, one Scottish League Cup and one Scottish Cup. It has also won minor honours in the lower divisions.
The current Rangers(TRIFC) can claim that it owes no debt to HMRC and others – it can do that because it is a new club. The current Rangers(TRIFC) cannot claim honours won prior to 2012 – it cannot claim them because the club that won them(15 fraudulently) has been liquidated.
The perpetuation of the lie that the old Rangers survives is an accommodation by the football authorities and the media to keep the lid on civil unrest.
Celtic were right not to get down into the hole that Rangers were digging in the run up to 2012, if we had ‘argued the toss’ over every contentious issue, it would have become labelled as a Rangers/Celtic spat, or, as one SFA luminary (Reagan I think) said “a West Of Scotland thing” – it would have tainted us by association for years. We just carried on winning annd getting stronger and Celtic is now the most successful entity, on the pitch & financially, in the history of Scottish sport. We have also, through Peter Lawwell, been instrumental in fashioning a new UEFA fair play financial framework which is impinging on the TRIFC club at this moment. There will be no more “fiver and tenner’” loose talk/actions coming out of Ibrox in future.
It really is no more complicated than that. A straightforward reasonable explanation that they will never accept. You can’t reason someone out of a position that they haven’t reasoned themselves into. HH
Ireland getting themselves into trouble by trying to play out from the back when England are frontloaded.
Day of the Jackal on sky/atlantic/dodgy stick – the baddy is a DOB – i kids you not!
They can’t ever deal with the Irish question.
bellingham is some player.
she has done well for herself since they Oxo adverts from the 80s
Did the English boo all through the Soldier’s song?
Great tackle by Liam Scales on Kane there.
Scales booked for somehow delaying a free kick being taken..
Darwin on 17th November 2024 5:00 pm
A fine ( and useful ) post.
Kane booked just on half-time.
Ireland kinda gew into the game.
Didn’t give away any real clear cut chances, and got forward in the latter stages, then fouled.
Could have done better with their set pieces mind.
England not great, have lost three from five at Wembley this year so form not there.
Celtic mac
He kicked the ball away
Play up you fine Irish lads.
I do enjoy a Sunday. You can never have enough good times. 👍
Scales off
Pen engerland
1-0
so much shite i hate about football these days (and i know that makes me sound like the auld cnt i am).
but why was that not just a penalty? why the yellow card?
penalties and yellow/red cards are ruining the game these days.
hate it.
2-0
Liam now booked and sent off for challenge on Bellingham in the box after through ball from Kane.
Thought Bellingham left his foot in there to get the penalty, and not sure it meritied a second yellow.
Kane scores penalty. Gordon scores second from where Scales would have been from cross from right.
Long night now for the Irish.
Let’s all
I agree – the penalty is enough punishment unless it’s dangerous play or violent conduct
3-0
lets all do the huddle on 17th November 2024 6:14 pm
so much shite i hate about football these days
me..aye fekin’ engurland!
School boy stuff from Scales,stupid 1st booking
Scales played quite well in the first half. As did Ireland.
To reduce the Irish to ten men is beyond harsh.
School boy stuff from Scales,stupid 1st booking
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but that shouldnt mean he should have had a 2nd for that penalty.
anywhere else on the park that is only a foul, if even that.
5-0 oh dear
Not all fouls in the penalty area result in a card.
Liam was yellow carded because his foul prevented a clear goalscoring opportunity.
It could be worse. I could be a hun.
BIGRAILROADBLUES
I once heard the small doll call you hun.
Not all fouls in the penalty area result in a card.
Liam was yellow carded because his foul prevented a clear goalscoring opportunity.
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aye, under the laws it is a yellow for that reason.
but my original point was i hate so many of the laws these days.
they all seem to be around ruining the game as a spectacle – denying goals for a pixel offside, giving penalties (and so usually a goal) for the slightest touch, wanting to send players off because var has watched a slo-mo of a players foot being a few inches off the ground.
just pish.
LET’S ALL DO THE HUDDLE
Can’t disagree with any of that.
After Bellingham was booked in the first half, he followed the referee and threw a few expletive deleteds at him. That is dissent and merited a second yellow card. If we are going to play “by the rules” lets play by the rules, and send Bellingham off. Or do they only apply to Scales?
As for the second yellow, there was potential cover from Ireland to Bellingham’s attempted cut back onto his left, (where I thought he played for the pen) and in my opinion, it was not an “obvious” (not “clear”) goal scoring opportunity so the yellow card was harsh.
Just heard Anthony Gordon being interviewed on Radio 5 there, was asked if Scales deserved a second yellow card, and he responded that yes because he was “stopping a goal scoring opportunity”.
That is not the rule.