Mike Dean has told Soccer Saturday other officials are ‘your mates for the day’ as he tried to play down the fallout from his remarks about Spurs v Chelsea
“I missed the stupid hair pull at Chelsea versus Tottenham, which was pathetic from my point of view,” Dean told Simon Jordan’s Up Front podcast. “I didn’t want to send him [Taylor] 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.”
Asked about his podcast comments, Dean told Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday: “It has all been blown out of context. Referring to him [Taylor] as a mate, you have got to look at it in context. You might not like some guys in your refereeing group, but when you get a game on the the weekend, there are four of you in the middle, a VAR and an AVR. Those six people are your mates for the day. The mate thing has been blown all out of proportion.
“I want to support the referee as much as I can, and that’s what you do as a VAR. Yes I was wrong and I should have sent him to the screen, but to say I didn’t send him over because he was a mate is an absolute farce and it’s just been blown all out of proportion. “It was wrong, and I paid the price. I didn’t have a game for three weeks after that. The buck stops with me. He’s not my best mate, we are just mates on the day. When you go out as a team of six, you want to look after your mate in the middle. That’s what you do.
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