“I suffered deeply unpleasant abuse during my referee career and adding my sexuality to this would have been really difficult.” A dry observation posed by the English referee David Coote, who publicly revealed his homosexuality this Monday, January 28. In an interview with Sunhe explains “That there is much to do in the world of football and more broadly in society in matters of discrimination. I did not want to be this person who puts his head above the parapet to get shot, given the abuses that we all undergo as arbitrators in all cases. ”
This anxiety led him to take refuge in cocaine, explaining that an accumulation of repressed emotions, combined with a multiplication of matches between the euro, the Olympic Games and the Premier League, gave him “Want to escape cocaine.” The young referee regrets having hesitated, explaining to having “Hidden my emotions as a young referee and I also hid my sexuality, good quality as an arbitrator, but a terrible quality as a human being. And that led me to a whole series of behavior. ”