Jamie Carragher, Roy Keane, Gary Neville, Ian Wright and Jill Scott react to David Coote in trouble with the video posted.
The Overlap crew have spoken out on the situation surrounding the suspended Premier League official David Coote after videos surfaced of him calling Liverpool “sh*t” and making derogatory remarks about their former manager Jurgen Klopp.
The PGMOL suspended Coote pending a full investigation, which they are currently carrying out. Then another footage surfaced of reportedly Coote snorting a white powder.
You can watch the Coote situation being discussed in the video below or read on for the transcript…
Gary Neville: So the big the big scandal was the Premier League referee, obviously, David Coote having a video released of him. Obviously, he’s had a few drinks, and he’s with a friend. It’s a few years ago as well, calling Jurgen Klopp a ‘Beep beep.’ And, what do we think of that?
Roy Keane: Why would your friend be recording a conversation with you? And people, like I know. You’re not about trusting people. Your friend’s video now.
Jamie Carragher: The fact that it [the Liverpool video] has come out four years after lockdown, for someone to have kept that and put it out now. People do stupid things on a phone. You’ve had a few drinks, and you wake up in the morning to delete that or whatever – but for someone to keep that is just… he [Coote] has had a nightmare. I don’t see him refereeing in England…
Ian Wright: As a referee as well you know, I have to go along with that you know, how can anybody be filming that. Yeah. And that’s something that he’s gotta be aware of. So this is Of course. That you cannot put out because…
Carragher: Well, you will look up the next morning. He’s had a few things and he got…
Wright: He looked like he was out of it
Neville: That second video, though, he does say that can’t go out, don’t he? He does say that that’s not for obviously showing. You know what I mean?
Carragher: When he’s saying it to the camera, the fella. So just when you’re saying it to the camera, f***ing just delete it…
Wright: He should have instantly he should have gone up and just said delete that now. Delete that now. I’m now I’m saying you know? But then we’re saying, well, if he deletes that now, we don’t know he’s how he feels about about Jurgen.
Keane: Yeah. But yeah. But what so what did he say? So he’s just slagged Klopp off?
Neville: Yes
Keane: Do do you not think other referees do it privately? I’m thinking they must have chatted different obviously, he’s just being caught on camera. But if he thinks that of Jurgen Klopp does that mean he should stop refereeing forever?
Carragher: How can he referee?
Keane: Just avoid Liverpool matches.
Carragher: I know but then say he’s refereeing Arsenal or Man United, and they that they’re competing. They’ll be so I just don’t think
Neville: You said that under your breath at the end of your answer. I don’t see how he can referee in this country again. To be honest with you, I think that will probably be the likely outcome knowing the way in which we’re obviously going. But my view is that if you call Jurgen Klopp a c*** or Erik ten Hag a c***
Wright: People think if you spell it out it ain’t as bad
Scott: It’s worse.
Wright: The kids are going like this. Sorry.
Neville: So what do you call Jurgen Klopp? What do you do?
Carragher: If he just said that in the video, he’s could still referee.
Keane: So it’s a big leap. It’s a big leap for a guy to make a big mistake like that, whatever, to say never referee.
Neville: That’s my point. Right? To get it from a point whereby you’ve called a manager, what he called him, and then meaning that you can you’re essentially cancelled and never referee again in this country. I’m struggling with that a little bit. I think maybe a suspension of some kind, punishment, but then I think he should be able to come back.
Carragher: I am with ya. He sounds so stupid on you know, you can imagine what the fellas going through right now. I don’t want that, you know, cancel culture, but the point being is how could he then, so he could never referee a Liverpool game, but how could he then …
Keane: But his issues were with Klopp.
Carragher: No, but then the fella next to him says, oh, we hate Scousers or whatever. What I’m saying is, why did he’s had a few drinks, we all say stupid things. But my point being is, it’s not just that he can’t referee Liverpool. How does he referee Everton? If they give Everton, you’re just the amount of eyes and put on it
Neville: You’re from Liverpool, and I think to be fair, you’re in a position to be able to speak on not on behalf of everybody in Liverpool, but you’re a Liverpool fan and a level of self composure. Is there a case here whereby you don’t believe this guy is, you know, making decisions against Liverpool, or do you believe that?
Carragher: No. No. No. I don’t. The thing I despise most about social media is not people giving me stick. It’s when a referee makes a decision and that whole fan base is like, the world’s against us. I want you to done that. And it’s like, honestly, even my own fan base. But it’s like, whoever it is, I’m like, I can’t get into my head that, like, a referee is like that because you’d never sleep, you’d never be able to, like, I’ve just gotta go you know.
Wright: You know what? Listen to Gary O’Neil. When listening to Gary O’Neil, one popped up yesterday, I think it was, when he was talking about in their subconscious, you’re playing against. They’re saying about sometimes you feel like things might sway you and this and that. Now with him saying that and him coming out and blatantly speaking like he did, now fans have got every right to feel like they feel about what how he said about Klopp and that. Every right to feel that now. Call everything into question. He’s brought refereeing into…
Carragher: Did you not think that referees thought that
Scott: Being 4th official, and he’s getting peppered every week.
Neville: Just just so we get everyone’s view, because, obviously, I think the the key question here is, obviously, we all know that he’s done wrong. He’s been stupid. He’s been let down. We know that we all know that, and he’ll regret it, and he’ll be having a terrible time. The question is, I think, going back to your first point, should he referee in this country again? My position quite clearly is I think he probably should get a suspension of some kind. I think Liverpool matches will be a no no for him, but I’d like to think he could come back and referee in the I don’t let I don’t think someone being completely cancelled forever from doing the job for calling someone a what he did is to me a I can’t think that’s worthy. It’s not a sackable offence in respect of him never working again. So for me, if he if they do sack him, they’re effectively taking him off the employment list of everybody moving forward, and that, to me, I don’t think he’s right. That’s where I stand.
Scott: I agree with you.
Neville: He needs punishing, and he needs to understand the consequence because, obviously I just think around I’m not just like, how Liverpool think.
Carragher: I just think because what he said about Liverpool, I think I think it make it difficult. I don’t wanna see anyone cancelled. I don’t wanna see….
Neville: He didn’t say, by the way, I hate Scouse. That was his main one. I actually think I actually think if he’d said, I hate Scousers, which to be fair is funny coming from someone who, to be fair, had, you know, all his life, I think that would be a bigger problem than calling Jurgen Klopp a c***
Wright: Why do you keep spelling it out? We know what he called it.
Scott: You can’t say
Neville: I’m sorry.
Scott: Just say the c word. We’ll give this extra power, social media and suddenly more video. Because as soon as that went out, everyone’s like, oh, I can’t wait for the other videos to come out.
Carragher: I’m again, if he can referee in the Championship or he went abroad. My point being is, if you’re Howard Webb, head of the referees, the eyes and the attention on him every game, if he made a decision that favoured Liverpool, not favoured them. Say Liverpool are going for the league with City, and City had a bad decision…
Neville: Are you saying are you saying he can never referee in the Premier League again, are you?
Carragher: I think the Premier League, I think it’s very tough for him to referee around, he couldn’t referee Liverpool games, but around teams who were involved with them.
Scott: That was Klopp, he’s not even there
Keane: I think it’s a bit extreme, that, Jamie. I don’t think we had right here a few months ago where they obviously look at referees who can’t manage teams to support it or from certain areas. So obviously, they’d have to look at his yeah. He’d have to obviously take some sort of punishment. He’d hold his hand up and certainly have a break from the game. But this idea, we could say to a referee who’s trained for donkeys years, He’s made a daft mistake.
Wright: I just with Jamie on it. I’m not saying he should do, but I can’t see how it would sound.
Neville: He shouldn’t referee again?
Wright: I’m not saying he shouldn’t referee again.
Carragher: Maybe he’s in the EFL, maybe he goes abroad. I don’t see if I can lose this job.
Wright: It’s this kind of mistake what he’s made, and again, you go back to the people who’s snitched on him, even though fourth officials, all of them, they’re all snitches anyway. But the fact is, is that whoever snitched on him has completely finished him in the Premier League, I believe, simply because honestly Roy, simply because all the variables that can happen
Keane: He slagged Klopp off. Is Klopp a scouser?
Wright: He’s not a Scouser, but he’s a linchpin
Neville: We’ve all there’s 5 of us here. We’ve all made crazy, daft mistakes. And every now and again, when you do make a mistake, you you want someone to give you a helping hand. If everyone just got punished for every mistake they made I just weren’t as bad as direct. I think that I think ultimately and accept there’s a trust thing. There’s an integrity thing about the fact that Liverpool games. But I do think, personally, there is a way back from in the Premier League. If the PGOML are strong enough. Now where the clubs go with this, where Liverpool obviously go with this is the club because they’re the ones that have been affected and a club involved, you know, will be interesting. But I suspect Howard Webb will, I think, he’ll, look. He has to make a decision probably in the next few days. I would buy time and say, look. He’s suspended to the end of the season or whatever till January. You know what I mean?
Carragher: Sorry, Gary. The problem with it, I think you just mentioned that is, it’s not just about him. The actions of him now has almost cast sort of every referee now is like
Neville: Has it?
Carragher: I think, everybody’s going to say, listen. We all think, would this happen in private problem? But what I’m saying is everyone’s now thinking, well, it can’t just, is everyone doing this? He caused a problem for his mates as well.
Keane: Most of the managers over the years. Just thinking of would it be Arsenal, Ferguson, Wenger, do you think all the referees didn’t curse these lads?
Carragher: No I get it.
Wright: But we didn’t see it Roy blatantly like that. It just doesn’t, it doesn’t feel good or great for a referee to be called out like that.
Neville: There are referees on the circuit at the moment. I saw a referee the other day telling the story about Roy. It was absolutely rubbish. But he tells what I’m saying is there are referees who immediately retire, go on the circuit, and start to tell stories about when they were playing, about, oh, do we need to get one back on him and go and get So we know this is happening with referees. I mean, it’s not stupid that referees are not obviously like, we’ve got we’ve got refs on the circuit there, actually. So the fact that he’s been caught, I get, ultimately, he’ll think, you know, it’s sloppy, and, obviously, it’s a bit it’s very embarrassing for him. But the idea of he never referees again, he’s essentially cast out.
Carragher: I’m not saying that. No. I’m not saying that. No. I’m not saying that. No. I’m not saying…
Wright: It’s gonna be tough
Carragher: Tough in the Premier League. So maybe it’s EFL, maybe it’s he goes abroad, he’s just Champions League, whatever. I’m no. I don’t want to see the fellow lose his job. But I just think if you’re Howard Webb…
Neville: You know, it’s like the minute he’s sacked from the Premier League, from the PGMOL, no other organisation will look at you. You know how that will plays out. It’ll play out in a bad way for him because then they’ll think, oh, we can’t touch him. He’s, you know, he’s been sacked for that so we can’t. And that that that’s the that’s the difficulty I have with it.
Keane: Tranmere games? Mike Dean’s Tranmere, ain’t he?
Neivlle: Jill?
Scott: I agree with you. I think everybody probably, he’s had a bad day at work, gone back, and had a bit of a bitch, hasn’t he, really? But I think because of social media, now all these videos circulate. And I just think, is it enough for people to lose jobs? Because people are now going, oh, when’s the video gonna come out about like, everybody says stuff. Managers probably go home and say stuff. But I’m thinking, how has that surfaced after 4 years
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