\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bFormer Premier League referee David Coote has been charged with making an indecent video of a child, Nottinghamshire Police have confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 43-year-old from Collingham is due to appear at Nottingham Magistrates Court on Thursday, September 11 and is currently on conditional bail.<\/p>\n
He has been charged with a Category A offence which relates to a video file recovered by officers in February 2025.<\/p>\n
Category A is the most serious of the categories.<\/p>\n
The charge of making an indecent image of a child refers to activities such as downloading, sharing or saving abuse photos or videos.<\/p>\n
Coote was sacked by Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) in December 2024 after a video appearing to show Coote making derogatory comments about Liverpool and their former manager Jurgen Klopp was widely circulated on social media.<\/p>\n
In August this year he was given an eight-week suspension by the Football Association over the Klopp footage.<\/p>\n
The PGMOL investigation also covered a second video which emerged in November 2024, appearing to show Coote snorting a white powder, purportedly during Euro 2024 where he was one of the assistant VARs for the tournament.<\/p>\n
European football’s governing body UEFA also appointed an ethics investigator to look into the matter and Coote was banned by UEFA until June 30, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bFormer Premier League referee David Coote has been charged with making an indecent video of a child, Nottinghamshire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-413210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115180209618413420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413210","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=413210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}