Former Premier League soccer referee David Coote was on Thursday given a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to a charge of making an indecent image of a child.
Coote, 43, was sacked last year by PGMOL, the English soccer referees body, after a video circulated on social media of him making derogatory comments about former Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp.
That incident sparked further investigations which led to Cootes electronic devices being seized by police in February 2025, prosecutor Jeremy Janes told Nottingham Crown Court.
