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Is Mike Dean a wnkr?

Hopefully the Albion players use the ‘get in your opponents faces’ approach from the get-go when we play ManC and Chelsea from now on. It’s helped closed the gap when we play ManU & LFC. Whereas we always give bloody Chelsea and ManC so much reverence and stand back.

I thought the same. Under my wish, the under-employed 4th official would take over that aspect.

He’s hated by LFC fans for past performances which went against them. He always seems to piss off a club.

If I could change anything in the sport, it would be to see 4th officials have the power and be forced to add on ALL time wasted, not just PL but at all levels including at WC’s. (Said hypocritically, as we must have hung on to famous and nervy wins before by ‘game management’). Not a...

He got that bit right - no thuggery or sly stuff preventing clear cut counters. The Albion players must have stayed respectful, against their instinct, in those many long lectures from Friend.

Every winning team tries it - refs and 4th officials rarely add extra time on.

I knew that he was despised by loads of other clubs fans already, a The Complete And Utter Shyster figure. It was only a matter of time before we joined the extensive set. :down::)

How is it some other referees don’t get noticed? I know we’ve done well with Friend before, but other fan bases already couldn’t stand his refereeing.

The officials caused it all. Both sets of players were fine. Friend set the tone from the off with dictatorial mini lectures to Dunk etc after they committed regulation fouls. Far more than being a communicator, more The Great Dictator.

In his Radio Sussex interview just then, CH was (in his own way) clearly critical of the officials. No :wanker: Warnock-like spitting bitterness. Classy as ever.

Predictable, he never has a quiet game. Lino’s too.

At 5 o’clock today we’ll either be condemning Kevin Friend or appluading him. His decisions are often controversial.

My carefully thought through assessment is that he was a wnkr. On the Murray booking, Murray did nowt wrong, a point picked up by the commentator. G.Neville said it was a booking because Muzza glanced before staying entirely still, which was gently poo-pood. As he did nothing wrong, the...