Precisely. But it's not 'flawed' testing - it's the only testing available. Coote reported did a coke session at the Euros last year (allegedly, as said). As in the link above, coke can be in your system for 3-4 days: he would almost certainly be reffing with it in his bloodstream. That's when social use carries into professional life. He just simply shouldn't do it.
I consider the cannabis ones flawed due to the timescales involved not being particularly useful for the purpose and the lack of after effects relative to other things. If person A went out drinking all day on a Saturday and person B spent all day Saturday smoking up I know who I'd prefer to be driving a forklift come Monday morning. I do take your point though. To a degree they're all flawed as people's metabolisms are different - I've known someone fail for cocaine after a week and someone else pass after 36 hours - but they're all we have to go by so we have to live with it. As an aside you aware of how long the saliva ones used for driving are supposedly good for re cannabis? I believe it's much shorter but can't remember the exact time I was told by the old bill.
I actually thought the comments could be whitewashed . He only referred to our performance v bunrely as Liverpool were ****. That was blown up as being derogatory in general. He skirted the klopp one just about in calling him names but also saying he had his way of dealing with him as a result which as to blank the man. Again not a smoking gun. The fact he's on the back end of his trip and looks stoned while he is saying never release thst video is the really stupid stuff that will get him fired imo
Think everyone has forgotten as well just what a bloody awful decision it was - a nailed-on pen that Coote had to be blind not to give, and VAR being to timid to challenge him. But it was a run-of-the mill **** up (for Coote), not in the same ballpark as his mega tosspottery re the Virgil case, or the VAR watching golf on another screen in the Diaz incident.
Never mind random testing with the money involved ,all officials involved in reffing a game var included should be tested every time and if you don't agree then quit.
The corruption was the total lack of transparency about it all. They only released the audio because Liverpool and Sky threatened legal action.
The Premier league is treating the matter with caution as they do not want David Coote to have mental break down.
Yeah, er, he's the victim in all this. Getting the impression now that he's the PGMOL's human shield.
Then there are employers like my employer. They say they test randomly, but they never test anyone. I think it's so if they suspect something they can then "randomly" test the person they suspect.
We all know he's guilty, but they're protecting their own until judgement has passed. I think that's fair. As long as they come to the correct judgement in the end and don't try to spare him.
I don't think you're wrong entirely... I'm no expert but from my Google Fu I read that cocaine in small recreational amounts probably won't impact his abilities the next day.... If he's snorting a lot of the stuff that's different it can impact judgement and change personality. So my own opion, if he's snorting occasionally, I don't care. I also don't think he can ever reasonably be expected to judge any Liverpool game or that of a points rival ever again due to his declared hatred.... I'm not naive enough to believe he is the only biased ref... He's just the only ref we know who they're biased against out their own mouth. He's allowed to be a biased turd... Really the only thing that bothers me about all this is that, not only has he admitted a bias, but results have shown that Liverpool do much worse when he's the ref. That shows his bias is translated on to the field. If he said he hates Liverpool and Scousers and German ****s but there wasn't a statistical difference in outcomes... I wouldn't care. Even if he snorts cocaine occasionally
Get the twats mic'd up so we can here what they're saying like in rugby...total transparency,not hard is it unless they're bent as **** and won't allow it.
If there is a source for this - I'm ****ing praying there is - then it's no wonder the PGMOL are using him as a human shield and going big on the 'He's the victim here - and so are we' horseshit. Time for the National Crime Agency to get involved.
everyone running with it: (edit: looks like the scum broke it, but it’s everywhere now) https://www.skysports.com/amp/footb...ving-yellow-card-before-leeds-west-brom-match Said the other week that I feel a monster scandal on the way…
He’s come out and denied it…. Although he also denied the video was him initially and then back tracked. Not an unreasonable claim given what’s already come about
