{"id":439858,"date":"2023-07-15T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T19:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439858"},"modified":"2023-07-15T15:32:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T19:32:40","slug":"mike-dean-quits-var-refereeing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mike-dean-quits-var-refereeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Dean quits VAR refereeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Dean has announced his retirement from refereeing body PGMOL, an year after he put an end to his professional refereeing career.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: PGMOL confirm Mike Dean will be leaving his role with the organisation this summer \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tHrz4akJfu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tHrz4akJfu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1680263967753502721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dean spent last season as an assistant in VAR, as well as coaching young match officials.<\/p>\n<p>The enigmatic Dean began his refereeing career in 1985 and steadily crept up the rankings ever since.<\/p>\n<p>He was promoted to the Premier League in 2000 and went on to officiate over 550 matches, before retiring as an on-field referee last summer.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Premier League\u2019s refereeing body said on Saturday: \u2018PGMOL would like to place on record its recognition of Mike\u2019s achievements as well as his immense contribution to refereeing and the game as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We thank him for his dedication to the organisation over a sustained period of time and wish him every success for the future.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Dean has announced his retirement from refereeing body PGMOL, an year after he put an end to his professional refereeing career. BREAKING: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439859,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20443],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[20444],"acf":{"announce":"The veteran match official puts an end to his illustrious 28-year career","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439858"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439858"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}