As soon as I saw this thread I thought 'oh no' not another 'Coote bashing' and sure enough it has been apart from one posting? - I presume that everyone complaining thinks they can do better or could have done better when they were referees if indeed they were/are - surely if he is that bad he would be removed from the list but he has not - so is it always necessary to always be so negative all the time
Although I never reached anywhere near the dizzy heights of the EFL, I like to think I'd take appropriate firmer action in response to a deliberate stiff arm shove into the neck of an opponent causing him to go sprawling and require lengthy treatment and a player scraping his studs down an opponent's Achilles Tendon area of the heel, which Mr. Coote failed to do in both cases. An SG1 Referee should do better than take no action at all in the first instance and only issue a caution in the second.