Mike Dean death threats.

[paulchapo]

Apparently he has receive death threats to himself and family on social media. As a result he has asked to be taken off the referee's list for this weekends games.

 

[RandomJ]

Hopefully the police find and lock them up. Far too many pricks online just throwing death threats around thinking they are immune from consequences.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

I wouldn't even lower myself to consider being taken off. Clearly any keyboard warrior issuing threats has no intention whatsoever to carry them through. Clearly still lives at home with mummy.

 

[lonestay]

Convenient that, not saying he hasn't had threats but convenient all the same. No one to blame except those faceless keyboard warriors.

 

[Nellies left peg]

I wouldn't even lower myself to consider being taken off. Clearly any keyboard warrior issuing threats has no intention whatsoever to carry them through. Clearly still lives at home with mummy.

But he should be found and spend some time with his new mummy in a cell for a few months.

 

[domalino]

I wouldn't even lower myself to consider being taken off. Clearly any keyboard warrior issuing threats has no intention whatsoever to carry them through. Clearly still lives at home with mummy.

I think he was overdue a rest and he's had two red cards in a week so this was a good time to take him out of the spotlight whilst also highlighting what kind of abuse referees get.

I wouldn't idly write off a death threat as some "keyboard warrior", Top referees get incredible abuse including threats and wishing harm on them and their families every week- for them to take it to the police and make it so public, it might be a more serious or credible threat than a throwaway social media message.

 

[NorthamptonBlue]

Terrible if true and sadly all too believable. I don’t rate him but death threats?

 

[Dicko69]

 

[I'm With Stupid]

The widespread abuse of referees throughout the game is the main reason why we have such a terrible standard of refereeing. It's one thing to be a Premier League, but who's going to volunteer to receive this sort of abuse in Sunday league or kids' football? And the fewer people do it, the fewer they have to choose from in the professional game.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

The widespread abuse of referees throughout the game is the main reason why we have such a terrible standard of refereeing. It's one thing to be a Premier League, but who's going to volunteer to receive this sort of abuse in Sunday league or kids' football? And the fewer people do it, the fewer they have to choose from in the professional game.

Someone will design an app thingy and hook it up to CCTV and a statelite, a computor will do the rest and deliveroo will hand out the cards.