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Referee Mike Dean will step down from his role as a Premier League VAR official and leave the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), the referees' body said on Saturday.

Dean, a colourful figure, began officiating in the Premier League in 2000 and refereed more than 550 matches in the top flight before he became a full-time Video Assistant Referee (VAR) official in 2022.

The 55-year-old often attracted attention for his charismatic style of refereeing, dishing out cards with flair and letting the ball run between his legs during games.

In the extensive highlight reel of his career, Dean will likely be best remembered for a viral video of him celebrating wildly in the stands while watching Tranmere Rovers, the club he has supported since childhood.

https://www.espn.ph/football/story/_/id/38015611/referee-mike-dean-quits-premier-league-var-role

 

The death of football as we knew and loved it continues unabated.


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https://www.espn.ph/football/story/_/id/38015611/referee-mike-dean-quits-premier-league-var-
Mike Dean immediately lands new role after bringing 28-year referee career to end
Former Premier League referee Mike Dean will form part of the new-look new Gillette Soccer Saturday programme on Sky Sports - with Simon Thomas as the show's new presenter

 

Unbelievable Simon.

 

Over to you Jeff.

Where's Jeff gone...

 

I went to Djurgården vs Malmo tonight. Standing allowed, beer in the stand and an amazing none stop singing atmosphere. Good fun

 

Don’t want any of that here. How many died of smoke inhalation, asthma attacks and being incinerated? How can you discuss xGs, pass completions etc with all that going on?

 

Couldn't discuss anything too noisy and I wasn't even standing in the Ultras section behind the goal.

Even the flares ae done with class. They are banned from grounds hear but you seem them every game. Once the lads in balaclavas are finished waving them about they come to the front of the stand and drop them on the ground so the fire marshalls and stick them in buckets and use a fire extinguisher on them.

 

The HCST would have a fit at scenes like that going by the comments, particularly by one person, at the last meeting.

 

One of my many cousins lives in Sweden. You're not him by any chance are you? Initials TW?

 

Apologies if the badge should have come with a trigger warning

 

Lol no those are not my initials. That was my tweet so I am in the profile picture.

 

Hope they turn them into a franchise and move them MK and mercan "football" style to the Scilly Isles or something

 

Fortunately I haven’t had breakfast yet.

 

Okay fella if you bump into an English guy with the initials TW give him my best...Tar.

 

I’m TW….., actually sorry I’m not I’m Spartacus.

 

Always like asking East Yorkshire ****es which was the last team to win the league or appear in a Cup Final with an Owl as their badge. They look at you as if you are daft and say they don’t know when but it must have been Wednesday. Most Leeds fans actually from Leeds, especially older ones, would know. The superstitious Revie after a period in which Leeds won the League for the first time in their history, won the Fairs Cup twice, the League Cup and got to two FA Cup Finals, the first times in their history, decided an owl was a symbol of bad luck and had the badge changed. Then a year or so later left.