had to get this one is first Thursday 16 December 8pm kick off on BT Sports Referee: Mike Dean. Blind bastard who could not see the Everton player kick the Arsenal Player in the head even with VAR Why is he ref anyway he lives just across the water says he supports Tranmere but will have an affiliation with other Merseyside clubs we can't have a ref from Gateshead Assistants: Eddie Smart, Mark Scholes. Fourth official: Andy Madley. VAR: Simon Hooper. Simply useless ref Assistant VAR: Peter Kirkup.
Have to say I think HDQ has a point about where Dean is from. Why on earth is it necessary to have a ref from the local area? It makes no sense whatsoever for either side. For us he might as HDQ notes be sympathetic towards local sides. For them he may be die hard and really hate all other local sides. Either way its seems an unnecessary risk given the number of refs? We are going to get badly spanked either way.
When I have been to watch Gateshead play fans stay behind to watch the footie results coming in there is a cheer if Newcastle win there is also a cheer if Sunlund win now these guys are out and out Gateshead fans but they do look towards the bigger teams as a second option / favourite team I will be keeping a close eye on Dean and getting professional advice on his performance I can't see how Dean could be not be swayed to either one or both teams, in another hotbed of football on Merseyside I'm sure Kevin Friend was removed from reffing Leicester as he lived in the area yet he says he supports a different team
Not looking forward to this one. If Howe goes 4-4-2 against them we might as well just give them a 3-0 and not turn up.
Does it really matter for the next 2? Might aswel throw them and play the u21s.. Take a fully fit side into the man united home game and to Everton
We always have Anthony Taylor refereee us against United despite him being from Manchester so who knows. Mike dean is a **** ref no matter who he referees so can’t see it being any help to us
This will be a ****ing massacre, not even going to predict the score, don't want to. Instead lets predict what minute our fans start singing the cringeworthy "Feed the Scousers" song. I will go with during the playing of "You'll never walk alone" pre kick off.