{"id":51237,"date":"2025-10-14T07:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ex-premier-league-referee-david-coote-pleads-guilty-to-child-image\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T07:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:01:23","slug":"ex-premier-league-referee-david-coote-pleads-guilty-to-child-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/ex-premier-league-referee-david-coote-pleads-guilty-to-child-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Premier League referee David Coote pleads guilty to child image"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1014%2Fr1559936_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nFormer Premier League referee David Coote pleaded guilty at Crown Court to creating an indecent image of a minor.\n\nCoote, who was previously a Premier League referee until he was dismissed in December 2024, appeared before Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe appearance was related to an accusation about a Category A video, the most serious type, which was recovered by the police in February.\n\nThe 43-year-old former referee only confirmed his name and declared his guilt during the six-minute hearing.\n\nJudge Nirmal Shant KC granted him conditional bail and ordered him to reappear in court on December 11.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You have pleaded guilty to a serious matter. Whether or not this means custody will be decided when all the information is before the court, which is why I have ordered a pre-sentencing report.<\/p><cite>Judge Nirmal Shant KC<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nCoote was dismissed by Professional Game Match Officials Limited in December after a video of comments he had made about former Liverpool manager J\u00fcrgen Klopp in 2020 came to light.\n\nIn August of this year, the Football Association imposed an eight-week suspension on him for Klopp&#8217;s images.\n\nIn January, Coote revealed that he was gay in an interview.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Premier League referee David Coote pleaded guilty at Crown Court to creating an indecent image of a minor. Coote, who was previously a Premier League referee until he was dismissed in December 2024, appeared before Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday. The appearance was related to an accusation about a Category A video, the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9799,856,4213,2500],"class_list":{"0":"post-51237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-child-image","8":"tag-court","9":"tag-david-coote","10":"tag-referee"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}