Mike Dean demoted

[mat]

Is it The FA who decide this or is it the Premier League or the massive anus that is Mike Riley? Could be one for FA watch, if it is The FA. Fergie moans - ref demoted, any other manager moans - manager gets a fine.

Riley is another rag bastard. Taggart didn't get much change out of Hackett.

 

[GStar]

Best ref this season IMHO. He didn't miss the offside, that was the lino. it was impossible to see the rags handball. The pens he was right about the rag's but missed the Anelka one, as he was unsighted. They have done sod all about the Blackburn player who admitted diving, because Dean has given most pens this season and maybe that was the reason Dean didn't give the pens last weekend.

They have also done sod all about Walton's inept performances this season nor the ref who dealt with Gerard's assault on Brown by having a word.

Have to agree with all this. Best ref this season. Further evidence of pendering to the top 4.

Agreed, been saying it most of the season, his last two games havent been great, but as mentioned how has Dean been demoted whilst Walton's comb over whisps away scott-free?

 

[Montgomery Burns]

Is it The FA who decide this or is it the Premier League or the massive anus that is Mike Riley? Could be one for FA watch, if it is The FA. Fergie moans - ref demoted, any other manager moans - manager gets a fine.

FA Watch is no more sadly.

However when one reads <a class="postlink" href="http://www.footballisfixed.blogspot.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.footballisfixed.blogspot.com</a> as recommended the other day by Prestwich Blue it really does make you think as to whether the EPL is as squeaky clean as Richard Scudamore would have us believe.

Jerry Bullivant, whose blog it is, is basically asserting the PGMOB are heavily influenced by Far East betting syndicates and that certain games are fixed. Seeing what we've all seen this season (both with City games and elsewhere) it really does make you wonder.

It should come as no surprise that Peter Walton has been high up on JB's Bum Ref Index, as has Mark Clattenburg, who went from the bottom of the Bum Index (Mr Integrity) to near the top in double quick time a couple of years ago when Thaksin came on the scene, although these are obviously two unconnected events, in my view.

For legal reasons I also have to make it crystal clear I'm sure any suggestions made elsewhere that Clattenburg's supposed 'change' would be connected to the massive debts he built up around that time (the debts being the reason why he was sacked, before being reinstated, because of concerns this would leave him more susceptible to temptation), would be totally wrong in my view, although the footballisfixed site does claim a number of City's games in which Clattenburg officiated were fixed during Thaksin's time, and the implication was that this was connected to the needs of the Far East betting markets. Again, I'm sure it's nonsense.

A seperate question in relation to Clattenburg might be how an EPL ref might be able to afford a Porsche Boxster, but I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that one.

Back to Mike Dean; he of course was suspended back in 2005 for his connections with a betting website. But I'm sure he's clean as well, just like Mark Clattenburg, for I don't believe for one moment that an English referee would stoop so low as to take the bookie's shilling. Other leagues may be fixed, but not ours. Shurely not?

 

[Franny Lee's Barrel Chest]

I know David Allison, a former Premier League referee who is one of the referee managers and he sorts out the referee appointments. I've not heard about the Mike Dean appointment for this weekend, but I can tell you that the select group referees, who do the Premier League, regularly referee games in the Football League. Morecambe v Accrington in League 2, for example, regularly has Premier League referees doing that one, with Mark Halsey, Phil Dowd and Alan Wiley all having done that fixture in the recent past. Other local derbies such as the Sheffield derby and other high profile games also have select group officials in charge.

You might also notice that Kevin Friend, another select group ref is also doing a Championship game. Mike Dean also did a Championship game in October, and a Championship and League 1 game in January. So they all do their bit in the Football League.

Mark Halsey, by the way, has Oldham this weekend, and on Tuesday has Carlisle v Leeds.

Having said all that, the timing of that appointment is somewhat unfortunate, given the fact that they get the email on Monday morning to tell them which game they have the following weekend.

 

[Pearcey]

Avram Grant Complains about referee - Result: FA disciplinary & fine.

Alex Fuckingscum Complains about referee - Result: Referee demoted.

How is shit like this tolerated I'll never know.

 

[Montgomery Burns]

We tolerate it because we're mugs.

We want to believe everything is straight, because the alternative is too much to comprehend.

We need to believe it's fair and our day will come, because let's face it we're no more than addicts dying for our next fix.

It's our Dad's fault, for making us go all those years ago.