Suspended Premier League referee David Coote is being investigated by the Football Association (FA) following allegations he discussed issuing a yellow card with a friend before a match. The allegations were first reported in UK newspaper The Sun on Tuesday night and relate to a booking received by Leeds United’s Ezgjan Alioski from Coote during their Championship game against West Bromwich Albion in October 2019. “I strongly refute these false and defamatory allegations,” Coote said in a statement on Tuesday evening. “Whatever issues I may have had in my personal life they have never...