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[Football] The Complete And Utter Shyster Podcast
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Damn you Presidente, damn you Brother. Damn you.
Shooting Star
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Excellent point and very, very true.
Point of order here - and this is the crux of the issue, with his performance that day - he absolutely did NOT 'give the decision as he saw it'. That is simply, fundamentally NOT the case.
How he 'saw it' (the actual Stephens challenge) was as a transgression worthy of a yellow card. The yellow card that he got out ready to flourish.
He gave a red card, in response to:
A) the sight of blood on Gaston's leg
B) Gaston knocking the yellow from his hand
C) the reaction of the other Boro players
It was a very, very poor bit of refereeing.
darkwolf666
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Totally this. The best compliment I had after a game was, when shaking hands with the brick shit house of a center back “you had a good game ref, didn’t notice you were there”...!
nwgull
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Is that clip where he’s just played an advantage and is celebrating the fact that allowing played to go on was vindicated by the goal?
Arthur
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Thought he came across like a right cock personally.
Everyone knows who Mike Dean is because he courts controversy. As others have said the best referees are the ones you don't notice.
Boro game aside I can't recall games where he's been particularly shit (or at least worse than any of the others) for us in fact since that game when we've had him and we've all had the pre match groan I think he's been pretty good for us. But there has been plenty of shockers he's had for other teams.
One positive thing I will say about him is that he seemed A LOT more human than Dermot Gallagher. He says on the podcast that he hopes to have at least another season in him, one can only assume by doing said podcast he is probably looking to keep his earning ability going post his retirement. If its gets that robot Gallagher off our screens then I'm all for it!
Everyone knows who Mike Dean is because he courts controversy. As others have said the best referees are the ones you don't notice.
Boro game aside I can't recall games where he's been particularly shit (or at least worse than any of the others) for us in fact since that game when we've had him and we've all had the pre match groan I think he's been pretty good for us. But there has been plenty of shockers he's had for other teams.
One positive thing I will say about him is that he seemed A LOT more human than Dermot Gallagher. He says on the podcast that he hopes to have at least another season in him, one can only assume by doing said podcast he is probably looking to keep his earning ability going post his retirement. If its gets that robot Gallagher off our screens then I'm all for it!
AmexRuislip
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Jimmy Grimble
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Interesting.
Didn’t our players on the morning of that game against Boro say that he was extremely pally with their players but barely made eye contact with ours? This was in a hotel that they were all in I think?
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Enjoyable just never expected that voice.
Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
- 14,915
Yep, he addressed that in the pod, claiming it was his most controversial or 'Mike Dean' moment referring, I think he said.
I listened while in the car this morning and thought he came across very well. A classic case of judging a book by their cover, when actually he's just a normal bloke who referees with a certain 'style'! I've always got the impression that he's attention-seeking and has ideas above his station, but I genuinely think it's his passion for the job and because of the journey he has been on to get there, that he takes it very seriously.
It was also clear that he absolutely HATES people saying the same sort of things to him outside of his job, which I kinda get. You wouldn't do that to many other people when they weren't working.
The only slightly unnerving thing was that he sounds a bit too much like Robbie Savage
