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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CELTIC MAC
Yes it is.
tom mclaughlin
No it isnt!
Saw a headline from the Comic that is Rangers News,about Cifuentes.
I read the first paragraph,thought,I have to share this,
“South America has always been know for producing very talented players.Rangers dipped into this market and brought,Danilo,Jefte,,Cortez and Cifuente.
Cifuente could not settle in Scotland,because of the weather” !!!!!!!!.
Danilo and Cortez have hardly played a game ,and Jefte is,well,nobody really knows.About £ 12 million for those 3.Not a great ” Dip into that market”.
Anyway,the finale is,Cifuentes is playing great with cash strapped Aris in Cyprus,and now every chance they could recoup the £1.9 million they paid,and probably make £3 million tidy profit.
Where do you start ?.You could start to doubt your own sanity reading this.
Celtic Mac,
Yes it is.😅😅😅
so the last i heard of that law was that if you deny a goalscoring chance then its only a yellow if you have made an attempt for the ball.
thats what i think happened here.
but scales was already on a yellow so…
turkeybhoy
No it is not!
CELTIC MAC
You just posted that there was an Ireland player moving in so it wasn’t a clear goal scoring opportunity. Now you’re saying it’s not the rule. Make up your mind.
but i still dont like it…
tom mclaughlin
Tom, first learn the rule, then get back to me
Assuming you understand it that is.
Anthony Gordon certainly doesn’t and he is a pro footballer.
You should know by now that when ye get TurkeyBhoy agreeing with you….
Yer on dodgy ground
Celtic Mac,
Oh I say,that’s a bit harsh !!!.
Its a sending off for two yellows.I take it you failed at Rocket Science as well.
turkeybhoy
Two yellows will result in a sending off.
That is not the question though.
Rocket Science?
In your case I would tend to drop the science part.
Looked like a second yellow to me.
Then again,in Celtic Macs”Opinion”it was not.
Who’s opinion to trust these days?,its a bit of a bind.Then again,Celtic Mac seems such a knowledgeable poster,I disagree with my own opinion,and I was brilliant at Rocket Science.
In my opinion.
Celtic Mac,
You did see my laughing emojis when I said
” Yes it is”earlier.A joke.No,?.
Maybe you had your head in the football rule book.
Then again,maybe it was stuck up your own Arse.Who can tell?.
Do you honestly think a Engerland player would be sent off for that HH
Are the Belgian team deliberately not passing to Engels ?.Is this a tactic?,like get the ball,always look for Trossard,he plays for Arsenal.
Fanad,
Who knows ?.Foreign Refs,anyone’s guess.We have witnessed some very strange decisions ourselves from them.
As Huddle said earlier,the rules are a pain in the arse now.Its not the rules,its the Refs interpretation.
turkeybhoy
Yes well we have to judge, if that is the right word, the decision against the rule as it is written. Not as we think it is, believe it is, assume it is, but as it actually is.
It is not about ” a goal scoring opportunity” as Anthony Gordon seems to think, there are any number of scenarios in and around the 18 yard box where that could apply, but you cannot yellow card every player who commits a foul against the player in such a position. No that will not do. And as for Tom Mac’s interpretation “clear goalscoring opportunity” will not do either, because that is not how the rule is worded. No it has to be an “obvious” goal scoring opportunity, taking into account a number of factors, two of which might have applied, eg location of defenders, and therein lies the question. We do not know if Bellingham, who should have been sent off earlier, would have had an “obvious” opportunity, and you know why we dont know, because either he was fouled, or that he left his foot there and played for the penalty. Ergo there was no obvious goal scoring opportunity and Scales should not have been sent off for a second yellow. In my opinion.
Celtic Mac,
Accept my apologies for saying your head may have ” Been up your arse”.Patently obvious it was stuck in the rule book.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Israel finished bottom of their Group in League A. Scotland are likely to finish bottom of theirs unless we beat the Poles. Both will be relegated – does that mean we will be in the same League & Group next time?
Warning! Warning,
Anyone contemplating coming to Turkey for a,
“Brazilian Butt Lift”, please be warned,due to illegal,untrained,” Butt Lifters”,it has now become very hazardous to your health,a BMA spokesman has warned.
Thank God I got mine from a reputable ” Butt Lifter”.
Not to be confused with Shirt lifter,when translating.
Sftb
Same league but maybe different group therein
Turkeybhoy
On a serious note there have been a few deaths recently of women who went to Turkey for cosmetic surgery.
turkeybhoy
Not the rule book
The Good Book
I agree with the sentiment of Ashworth Clifford today. Glad she came out with it.
The referee was biased today. No doubt about that. Allowing some brutal fouls by rangers to go without even a warning. One obvious penalty to Celtic not given as well as the horrendous ‘honest mistake’ of a penalty gifted to our opponent.
The schedule caught up with our girls today but the disgrace of coverage in BBC fell to an all time low online with some scumbag Campbell not even mentioning the penalty as contentious in his report.
Unreal that the manager was not even allowed to speak to sky to after. Trying to promote women’s football and we have bitter wee clowns like that chap as referees. Jamie Wilkie was his name for future reference.
Only 6 sleeps until Celtic will embark on 26 games in 14 weeks. Indeed it could be 24 if we either fail to reach top 24 in CL or reach top 8 in CL. Either way plenty of exciting games across 4 competitions.
At the end of this period we could be in last 16 CL and have won the Lesgue Cup and be in QF of Scottish Cup. Hopefully also with 12 pts clear water at top of PL.
We will likely 11 really big games. And likely 15 where the squad can be utilised.
Great times for Celtic fans.
Did you hear the one about the hun woman who went to turkey for a butt lift? She was so ugly , she came back with a complete set of pearly whites implanted in her bahookie .
Try again
Turkeybhoy on 17th November 2024 8:54 pm
Are the Belgian team deliberately not passing to Engels ?.Is this a tactic?,like get the ball,always look for Trossard,he plays for Arsenal.
I watched the Italy game the other night, and I thought the CB Faes wouldn’t pass to Engels…..
Poor stuff this login shyt
so i think ive worked out the login pish.
when it asks you to login again, you do it, but it takes you back to the first page. so then click on the last page number, it will tell you to log in again, but ignore that and refresh the browser instead and you are sorted.
i did offer to P67 a couple of years back that i could sort this pish out for him, but he is obviously more interested in adverts than usability!
Melvin Udall on 17th November 2024 2:34 pm
Your quote from FF: “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.”
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What an amazing turnaround indeed, fully acknowledged by the ‘bitter-end’ of our main (only) rivals. We must have had some great people running our club; e.g. top class CEOs, experienced & knowledgeable boards of directors, great managers and players since the start of the century to achieve such spectacular results……………………or maybe it was all down to the stupidity and selfishness of the Green Brigade and the know-alls who ‘rip the p***’ out of the club’s administrators at every opportunity on ‘so-called’ Celtic forums.
Let’s fill the boardroom with the likes of Jeanette Findlay and her bunch of fellow travellers who want to shoehorn their way into Celtic – we’ll be on our a*** within a few years. This anti-establishment brigade (AEB) would bring our great club to its knees in jig-time – quicker than Murray, Whyte & Green put together did at Ibrox.
We are fortunate to have had guardians of our club over the last twenty-five years who’s overriding criteria of ‘what’s in Celtic’s best interests’ has been used in all judgments and/or decisions – the results are self-evident and the success bountiful – long may it continue. HH
Good morning CQN.
Wrap up and stay warm.
Two weeks mid-season without a game is brutal.
Glad some of the group got a training camp in warmer weather.
Good morning from a foggy North Staffs – might get a bit of snow overnight or tomorrow.
A decent listen this m
A decent listen this morning bhoys.
https://youtu.be/PSH5IYWpOWQ?si=Y3MpWVrNn_ElDY5G
back to basics/gene
Yes it looks like the Arctic is about to say hello
Not to worry the old folks will soon be getting their winter fuel allowance from the new “Labour” govt. to help out. Wont they?
Good morning from Puerto de Mogan, only 24c at the moment, booo, but 27c expected later 👏
Yellow warning over most of Scotland blimey 😳
PP
I feel your pain 😢