Old Sod's Army- Mike Dean to be suspended?

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For his behavior when at the controls of VAR in the Newcastle v Fulham penalty chaos, Mike Dean is to to be suspended. Emm


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[Lordedmundo]

Yes - article about it here on a Newcastle site:

https://www.themag.co.uk/2023/01/mike-dean-now-set-to-be-suspended-after-newcastle-1-fulham-0-var-shambles-at-st-james-park-newcastle-united/#disqus_thread

In the comments - some Newcastle fans do acknowledge that the Burn challenge on Pereira was a penalty (although surprise, surprise Dermot Gallagher on Sky thinks it wasn't).

[MikeTheCubed]

It should be noted that the article is posing it as a proposition rather than an assertion.

[Surlyc]

That's a Newcastle United fan site speculating that Mike Dean could be suspended, given Lee Mason was unofficially suspended for mistakes relating to VAR last season.

There is no chance Mike Dean is suspended over this incident, even if he deserves it.

[Logicalman]

That's a Newcastle United fan site speculating that Mike Dean could be suspended, given Lee Mason was unofficially suspended for mistakes relating to VAR last season.

There is no chance Mike Dean is suspended over this incident, even if he deserves it.

Unfortunately VAR has ust become another point of failure in the decision-making process, and simply dilutes the number of mistakes the actual ref at the match makes, all making him/her look that little better (just above pathetic in too many cases)

[General]

Really does shine a light on how sketchy and poor refereeing is doesn't it. Even with all the rules. Refereeing has been surprisingly poor for the last couple of seasons and still costs teams points despite it being clear and having VAR.

[Nick Bateman]

Mike Dean or "The Dean" should be commended for his BRAVE decision to give Fulham a chance at justice away to the Saudi-owned Toon Army.

Dean has always been a maverick referee, often controversial, but fairly independant to other 'career' officials who will always favour the so-called big boys in the Premier League. Arsenal fans didn't like him as he did not give them every dive as much as other refs did, hence he never became the top dog. He was often criticized in hostile media circles as being haughty and red-card-happy just to court headlines, which they duly afforded him (helped their sales too).

In the Newcastle game the newcomer ref in charge was so pro the home team they might as well have put a genuine brown ale swigging geordie in his place, he was that biased.

Fulham have incurred woeful refereeing this season but this occasion were given fair treatment by VAR under Dean's stewardship. The newly appointed match ref dwelled at the monitor, balancing his desire to appease the richest-club-on-the-planet so as to further his ambitions to become the next rotten Anthony Taylor, against the authority of the legendary senior official that is Mike Dean. Naturally the rookie crumbled and gave us the pen. Mitro then fluffed his lines to allow them to steal an undeserved win.

One is not entirely defending Dean; he had a shocker in the Liverpool-Wolves match, allowing Mo Salah to score from an offside postion and then not overturning Wolves' disallowed winner because he claimed there was no pitch-side camera of which I doubt is true. Dean was banned from covering a Liverpool game for 15 years, only on his last year to be permitted. Of course he pretends to support Tranmere but not even the FA were that gullible. But they feel he cannot help the 'Pool that much as a VAR overseer so injudiciously they have appropriated him there.

Liverpool are one of the big boys afterall.

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