Mike Dean admits deliberate VAR error

aytonstrummer

aytonstrummer

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He has admitted he deliberately never sent his referee mate to the screen to review the cucarella hairpull.
His excuse was he didn't want his fellow ref to get hassle.
WTF how many other decisions are missed on purpose to protect the 'referees union'

www.bbc.co.uk

Dean declined VAR call to save ref from 'grief'

Ex-referee Mike Dean failed to use VAR in a Premier League match to save fellow official Anthony Taylor from extra "grief".
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It is a bit confusing. Dean say's he 'missed it', rather than he ignored it but why would you send the ref to view it (or not in this case) unless you thought there'd been a foul that the actual ref had missed.

Acklam_Lad said:
Surely that makes his position untenable now.
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He's not a VAR official now.
 
Mental that he'd admitted it so soon after the incident.

I know he's retired now, but it's barely been a year and that was a big incident which indirectly helped lead to Tuchel losing his job.

I don't think anyone's surprised that referees are biased and willingly make dodgy decisions, but I am surprised that he's openly saying it.
 
Why has he come out with this now, what is he trying to gain?

To me it's blatant confirmation that football officials are influenced by many different factors and do not remain impartial. We all know this but it's always just been argued that things even out over the course of a season. What a load of utter bollox.

He has essentially abused his position of power which is I think a form of corruption.
 
Tryasize10 said:
Why has he come out with this now, what is he trying to gain?
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From reading his comments it seems his point is around the undue criticism that referees and officials get and whilst you can't condone this single decision, I get his broader message entirely.

The levels of cheating and gamesmanship, in every game it seems, is damaging to the sport as a spectacle and the abuse referees get for trying to manage games is beyond acceptable.
 
Priv said:
He basically just admitted to a form of match fixing. He’s knowingly failed to give a genuine penalty. Chelsea could be due a fair amount of recourse from this.
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Failed to give a penalty? I thought the incident took place at a Tottenham corner? The BBC story has that wrong?

 
Cardiffdaffs said:
Failed to give a penalty? I thought the incident took place at a Tottenham corner? The BBC story has that wrong?

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"Just before a late Harry Kane equaliser Chelsea felt they should have had a penalty after Cristian Romero pulled Marc Cucurella's hair."
"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."

This could be the tip of an iceberg 🤔
 
aytonstrummer said:
The decision could have cost Chelsea one place in the table, which is about 2.2Million. Chelsea should sue him.
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You are right in that Romero should have been sent off and that might have led to Chelsea going on to win the game. It wasn’t a penalty incident. That’s speculation but what is wrong is for Dean to admit this. He may have been saving a fellow ref grief but he’s created potentially a whole lot more for himself now. This clearly has all the smell of a book promotion.
 
aytonstrummer said:
"Just before a late Harry Kane equaliser Chelsea felt they should have had a penalty after Cristian Romero pulled Marc Cucurella's hair."
"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."

This could be the tip of an iceberg 🤔
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Which as Cardiff has pointed out is wrong. The incident was in the Chelsea box not the opposition’s.
 
He has admitted to making an error of judgement. Something we see and suspect most matchdays, something we all see going on every week. VAR officials should be a select group on their own and separate from the PGMOL
 
MichaelDebeve said:
Mike Dean is an attention seeking media whore

This is just another stop on the Mike Dean circus train.

The man is a tool and from allowing that comment to be aired and not realise the consequences, then he's not a very intelligent tool at that.
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I can forgive him for all of that just for sending that Brighton player off after kicking Ramirez. Dean initially gave a yellow, until Ramirez showed him the damage that had been done to his leg, Dean then sent off their player. Some refs would have stuck to their original decision as not to knowledge their mistake there and then, and kept it at a yellow. Dean didn't that day.
 
This is a ridiculous thing to admit to. To openly state he didn't apply the rules of the game is bad but to admit that when he was in the position that is designed to remove errors is insanity.
So how many other decisions have been missed because of tough games or it involved a big team? It questions the validity of the whole refereeing structure at the top level.
VAR, in its current guise, doesn't work. For me, they need to move to a system that is similar to cricket and tennis. The on field ref should be able to go over and look at a screen at the side of the pitch if he or the assistants feel they have missed something or want a second look at an event/issue. No VAR team, no calls in the ear from someone in an office block 200 miles away, just the on field officials using replays if they feel the need. On top of that, each team should have three reviews that the on field captains can request to the referee. If correct, they keep the challenge and if wrong, they lose one.
I think putting mics on refs would also help.
 
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