{"id":456310,"date":"2023-08-25T15:20:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T11:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456310"},"modified":"2023-08-25T15:20:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T11:20:37","slug":"dean-avoided-var-call-to-save-taylor-more-grief","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/dean-avoided-var-call-to-save-taylor-more-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean avoided VAR call to save Taylor &#8216;more grief&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former official Mike Dean has claimed he decided not to alert a fellow official to a missed call via the VAR system during the past campaign\u2019s league game between Chelsea and Tottenham because he wanted to pardon him from &#8220;more grief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike, who now shares that he regrets what he did, was the VAR during a 2-2 draw in Chelsea\u2019s stadium 12 months ago when Tottenham\u2019s Cristian Romero pulled Chelsea defender Marc Cucurella to the ground by his hair.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Taylor didn\u2019t give a foul, and Spurs netted a goal in the extra time to win a point from the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I missed the stupid hair pull at the Blues versus Spurs, which was pathetic from my point of view,&#8221; the ex-referee shared to the Up Front podcast. &#8220;It&#8217;s one of them where if I had to do it again, what would I do? I&#8217;d send Taylor to view himself the situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mike Dean admitting he didn&#8217;t do anything as VAR ref last season for the Chelsea hair pull vs Spurs as he didn&#8217;t want to cause his mate Antony Taylor grief confirms everything fans moan about every week. Arrogant, biased, incompetent officiating to look after your mates<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Goldbridge (@markgoldbridge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markgoldbridge\/status\/1694969236060315652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former official Mike Dean has claimed he decided not to alert a fellow official to a missed call via the VAR system during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":456311,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,20443,17317,18466],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17902,20444,17886,18467],"acf":{"announce":"The ex-referee shared why he avoided the VAR call.","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\/456310"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456313,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456310\/revisions\/456313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456310"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456310"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}