Mike Dean has admitted he failed to correct a mistake in a Chelsea v Tottenham match last season to prevent his friend Anthony Taylor receiving extra “grief”.
The former Premier League referee Dean was on VAR duty at Stamford Bridge in August 2022 when Chelsea wanted the Spurs defender Cristian Romero sent off for pulling Marc Cucurella to the floor by his hair. Dean says he made a “really bad call” in not sending Taylor to review his decision.
Why would he do that? And why on earth would he admit it later??
And this is why having VAR refs be PGMOL refs is a bad idea. He straight up admitted what fans have been criticizing about VAR ever since it was implemented in the PL: the VAR refs care more about making their friends look/feel good than about getting the call on the field correct.
This moron doesn’t understand a very basic concept: helping your friends in need doesn’t always require making them look good. If the mindset was you have your friends watching your back so your mistakes get covered, then VAR would work a whole lot better. Instead, they care how they look not how they perform.