Mike Dean believes claims that he didn’t send Anthony Taylor to the VAR screen because he is a ‘mate’ is ‘an absolute farce’. The former referee has come under fire fr…
"But when you get a game at the weekend, there's four of you in the middle, there's a VAR and the AVAR, that's them six people, they're your mates for the day.
"So the 'mate' thing has been like blown all out of proportion to be fair but I want to support the referee as much as I can and that's what you do as a VAR. "Both managers had been cautioned, he cautioned about eight or nine players and I'm trying to protect the referee," he said when asked a similar question."Not because he's my 'mate' because I'm trying to protect the referee. It was wrong and I paid the price, I didn't have a game for three weeks after that so I did pay the price. The buck stops at me and it was a bad mistake by myself.
"Other wording I'd use is probably not the right words, if I said colleague it's a bit different, because I've used the word friend it's, 'Oh he's your best mate'.
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