He was sacked because his actions were found to be in serious breach of the provisions of his employment contract. That would surely nullify any payout claims. It's different to managers where you're effectively paying off their contract, i.e. there's no breach of terms on their side.
If it were just the Klopp incident.... I suspect he would have been publicly reprimanded, but not punished. He might have not officiated our games for a few months, but things would pretty soon go back to normal for him. It's the other stuff that put the nail in his coffin.
I’m not posting this to be argumentative but it’s a link to a legal case regarding PGMOL and whether referees are self employed or employees for tax purposes. It’s rather complicated and it’s ongoing so, to me at least, it doesn’t look clear at all. Don’t know what you think, https://www.lewissilkin.com/en/insights/supreme-court-shows-self-employment-the-red-card
Interesting to read. I also found this: https://www.ac-accounts.co.uk/blog/...ferees in charge of,(MOO) between the parties. So it sounds like Premier League referees (presumably including Coote) are employed, while for those further down the pyramid the status is currently unclear, with HMRC claiming they're employees and PGMOL saying they're self-employed.
Coote deserves everything he got. PGMOL had to investigate in private but I do think there needs to be more visibility into how they police for everything - especially corruption.
