{"id":153090,"date":"2025-06-02T21:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153090\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:26:11","slug":"making-an-honest-living-ex-premier-league-referee-david-coote-now-has-shock-new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153090\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Making an honest living’ – Ex-Premier League referee David Coote now has shock new job"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Coote has returned to work during his 16-month UEFA ban.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The former Premier League referee is suspended until June 2026, having been sacked by the Professional Game Match Officials Limited<\/a> (PGMOL) in December.<\/p>\n

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Coote has a new job six months on from being sacked by the PGMOLCredit: Getty\"His<\/a><\/p>\n

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His contract was terminated after a video of Coote snorting a white powder emergedCredit: The Sun<\/p>\n

However, he is now delivering packages for Evri after being captured on a couple’s Ring door bell, The Sun revealed.<\/p>\n

Coote had his contract terminated by the PGMOL after a series of damaging videos emerged in the public domain.<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old was shown calling former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp an ‘arrogant German c***’<\/a> in one clip.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, another showed Coote snorting white powder<\/a> while working as an official at Euro 2024.<\/p>\n

Leaked text messages later emerged of the disgraced official organising a drug-fuelled party<\/a> while serving as the fourth official for a Carabao Cup tie between Tottenham and Manchester City last October.<\/p>\n

After the videos emerged, Coote later revealed he is gay<\/a> in his first interview since the scandal.<\/p>\n

He claimed his lifelong struggle to hide his sexuality had been a factor in the behaviour which caused his contract to be terminated.<\/p>\n

Over six months on from being sacked by the PGMOL, Coote is now working for Evri.<\/p>\n

The Ring door bell footage shows him dropping off a parcel outside a property near his home in Newark, Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n

Coote has said<\/a>: “I’m just trying to make an honest living,” after his new career was revealed, telling The Sun: “I want to get on with my life.<\/p>\n

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Coote is now delivering packages for Evri near his home in Newark, NottsCredit: PA\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

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The 42-year-old is serving a 16-month UEFA ban which ends in June 2026Credit: Getty<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m trying to move forwards and regain a sense of responsibility and purpose.<\/p>\n

“The job is keeping me busy and occupied, it\u2019s not a new long-term career.”<\/p>\n

It comes after he ran the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon last month to raise money for his uncle Mick, who has motor neurone disease.<\/p>\n

Coote said: “I\u2019m doing what I want to do, focusing on what\u2019s important like spending more time with friends and family.”<\/p>\n

Prior to being sacked by the PGMOL, Coote spent six years as a Premier League referee.<\/p>\n

During that time he took charge of 112 top-flight matches following his debut in 2018.<\/p>\n

Former referee Dermot Gallagher has sympathy for David Coote after coming out as gay<\/p>\n

Coote also officiated the 2023 Carabao Cup final between Manchester United and Newcastle at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n

He had previously been the referee in charge of the 2014 League One final earlier in his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Coote has returned to work during his 16-month UEFA ban. The former Premier League referee is suspended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65200,65202,65201,101,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-153090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-david-coote","9":"tag-evri","10":"tag-pgmol","11":"tag-premier-league","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114615889766137720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}