Villa at home 8pm Saturday

[baitman]

Yep it is a goal scoring opportunity for the team that is meant. Still should have been a yellow as soon as the natural run of play ended though.

[Cerbie]

Yep it is a goal scoring opportunity for the team that is meant. Still should have been a yellow as soon as the natural run of play ended though.

IFAB rule 12 states :-

"Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own
penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity
and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offender is cautioned if the offence
was an attempt to play the ball or a challenge for the ball; in all other
circumstances (e.g. holding, pulling, pushing, no possibility to play the ball etc.),
the offending player must be sent off.
Where a player denies the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring
opportunity by committing a deliberate handball offence, the player is sent off
wherever the offence occurs (except a goalkeeper within their own penalty area)."

First, it implies that it is the individual, and in the following paragraph, it is the team. Let's call it a grey area that refs will use to cover their mistake.

I'd have been happy with a yellow, but to call no foul was a new level of incompetence for Cootes.

[BG1973]

The second paragraph is specifically referring to handball. The next paragraph that I quoted is the broader and applicable one in this case.

It should have been a yellow, but very clearly not a red according to the rules.

[Scratch]

Can only be a yellow if the ref thinks it was a foul, but Coote didn't and VAR can't intervene in yellow card cases.

[Buzzo]

[ame]https://twitter.com/anfieldrd96/status/1855970227495809374[/ame]

[spud_gun]

PGMOL 'good process lads'

Probably.

[Mark79]

[ame]https://twitter.com/SamMcGuire90/status/1855976110334279875[/ame]

[Mark79]

And you can bet Coote isn't the only one like that either.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Assuming that is real and not some AI jobbie, if a manager spoke like that , on his own time, about a ref. You can be sure a way to charge that manager for bringing the game into disrepute and so on would be found.



Also surely it shows a very obvious bais against a manager and club, so every dodgy decision he has made against the team should be seen as being a potential result of that bias. Should also mean that he cannot in any way be involved in any game we are involved in in the future, home or away as he is clearly and openly biased.

[Buzzo]

He should be sacked.

Effectively on the record displaying a bias.

[spud_gun]

https://twitter.com/SamMcGuire90/sta...76110334279875

He was also VAR for the Ev game where Pickford ****ed Virgils knee

[chadrtc]

https://twitter.com/anfieldrd96/stat...70227495809374

Surely that’s not real?

[kingfunk]

If he ever refs us again I’ll be fuming, hopefully that ends the **** cunts career.

[chadrtc]

The press are running stories about the Coote video now. Astonishing.

[Mark79]

[ame]https://twitter.com/LewisSteele_/status/1855979848105148914[/ame]