David Coote: The Ref Who Became the World’s Punchline
The Curious Case of David Coote: How One Referee’s Zoom Lens Became a Global Rorschach Test By the time the clip reached a bar in Lagos, David Coote had already been sacked, re-hired in effigy, and turned into a cautionary emoji in Jakarta group chats. One slo-mo replay of a Liverpool midfielders’ kneecap—captured on an…