Premier League bosses rule out significant referee change after David Coote controversy

Premier League authoritative David Coote was suspended past week aft videos leaked online and the PGMOL person present responded to calls from radical calling for a argumentation change

The PGMOL person nary plans to present cause investigating connected lucifer officials successful the aftermath of the caller David Coote scandal, it has emerged.

The refereeing governing assemblage person faced calls to bring successful mandatory investigating connected Premier League referees and officials aft Coote -who was suspended past week for making derogatory comments astir Jurgen Klopp - was shown allegedly snorting a achromatic powder successful a video leaked connected societal media.

The fallout from said leaks has seen the wider public's religion successful lucifer officials plummet. But The Star have revealed that the applicable shot authorities and the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) person nary appetite to marque cause investigating for referees mandatory.

The Star reports that their knowing is the PGMOL are unaware of immoderate plans to present investigating of referees and for present the organisation volition proceed to travel WADA rules.

Under the existent WADA rules, referees and lucifer officials are not required to acquisition mandatory cause tests. And portion it's been pointed retired that it would beryllium ethically and morally incorrect for a referee to beryllium nether the power of drugs successful the workplace, it's besides been argued that show enhancing drugs would not impact an official's show successful matches.

Former Premier League authoritative Keith Hackett suggested backmost successful 2000 that lucifer officials should beryllium cause tested, but it was knocked backmost amid fears that specified a determination would trigger atrocious publicity.

Coote has been offered enactment by the PGMOL pursuing the leaked videos which person near his vocation successful tatters.

The 42-year-old was archetypal shown calling erstwhile Liverpool manager Klopp a "German c***" earlier the astir caller clip of him emerged past week.

A PGMOL spokesperson commented: "David's payment continues to beryllium of the utmost value to america and we are committed to providing him with the ongoing enactment helium needs done this period. We are not successful a presumption to remark further astatine this stage."

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