Ref Dean gets threats as another red is overturned
English Premier League referee Mike Dean has reported receiving death threats to the police after being targeted through his family鈥檚 social media accounts.
The menacing messages were received after Dean sent off West Ham United鈥檚 Tomas Soucek in Saturday鈥檚 game against Fulham. The red card was overturned on appeal yesterday, just like the one shown to Southampton鈥檚 Jan Bednarek at Manchester United on Tuesday.
Having two of his decisions so publicly judged to be wrong by the Football Association has increased the spotlight on Dean. But the scrutiny has moved into a troubling territory for the Professional Game Match Officials Board and Dean has decided to take a break from this weekend鈥檚 round of matches.
鈥淭hreats and abuse of this nature are totally unacceptable and we fully support Mike鈥檚 decision to report these messages his family received to the police,鈥 said Mike Riley, a former EPL referee who is general manager of England鈥檚 refereeing body. 鈥淣obody should be victim of abhorrent messages like this. Online abuse is unacceptable in any walk of life and more needs to be done to tackle this.鈥
Dean was threatened online after dismissing Soucek in injury time of West Ham鈥檚 0-0 draw with Fulham for catching Aleksandar Mitrovic with his elbow.
Dean watched replays repeatedly in slow motion on a pitch side monitor at Craven Cottage after consulting the video assistant referee, Lee Mason. West Ham manager David Moyes said after the game he was 鈥渜uite embarrassed for Mike that he would have made that decision鈥 and the FA decided ultimately that the club鈥檚 appeal was legitimate.
鈥淚 am disappointed with football in general that the officials would allow these situations to take over from the game,鈥 Moyes said. 鈥淚 can only see the officials being the people that can stop it by not allowing the players to get away with the actions they are taking, because it is making the referee鈥檚 decision so difficult in giving them a decision when there wasn鈥檛 one to give.鈥
Dean had also consulted replays by the pitch at Old Trafford before sending off Bednarek for a challenge on Anthony Martial in Southampton鈥檚 0-9 loss at United. A Southampton appeal led to that decision being rescinded.
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