Mike Dean admits avoiding VAR call to spare referee more grief [The Guardian] (www.theguardian.com)

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Mike Dean has admitted he failed to correct a mistake in a Chelsea v Tottenham match last season to prevent his friend Anthony Taylor receiving extra “grief”.

The former Premier League referee Dean was on VAR duty at Stamford Bridge in August 2022 when Chelsea wanted the Spurs defender Cristian Romero sent off for pulling Marc Cucurella to the floor by his hair. Dean says he made a “really bad call” in not sending Taylor to review his decision.

Why would he do that? And why on earth would he admit it later??

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[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

“I said to Anthony afterwards: ‘I just didn’t want to send you to the screen after what has gone on in the game.’ I didn’t want to send him up because he is a mate as well as a referee and I think I didn’t want to send him up because I didn’t want any more grief than he already had.”

I mean... that's outrageous, right? Wtf?

[-] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is scandalous man

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