Overview

• Coote entered the guilty plea at Nottingham Crown Court to the offence involving a Category A image, the most serious classification.
• Nottinghamshire Police say the file was recovered in February 2025, and he was charged on 12 August after their investigation; he had initially denied the charge at a September hearing.
• Court materials state the allegation concerns a video made on 2 January 2020, with “making” defined to include downloading, sharing or saving indecent material.
• Judge Nirmal Shant KC granted conditional bail with restrictions including no unsupervised contact with under-18s, warning that a custodial sentence remains possible.
• Coote had previously been dismissed by PGMOL in December 2024 over leaked comments about Jürgen Klopp and is serving a UEFA ban running until 30 June 2026.