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25th August 2023
12:15pm BST
“It’s one of them where if I had my time again, what would I do? I’d send Anthony [Taylor] to the screen. I think I knew if I did send him to the screen … he’s cautioned both managers, he’s had a hell of a game, it’s been such a tough game end to end. “I said to Anthony afterwards: ‘I just didn’t want to send you to the screen after what has gone on in the game’. I didn’t want to send him up because he is a mate as well as a referee and I think I didn’t want to send him up because I didn’t want any more grief than he already had.“Anthony, he is big and bald and ugly enough to know if he is going to the screen he is going to the screen for a reason. If someone pulls their hair now it’s dead easy. "It’s just a brainwave by me, a really bad call by me, and it kind of affected me as Var going forward.” This just underlines the fact that even though there is technology available to help with these decisions, there will always be the possibility of human error. Dean stood down from the next few PL games and then decided that he would no longer continue as a Video Assistant Referee.
“Probably I missed a few games because you get taken out of the limelight,” he added.“That was a major error. If they don’t score from the corner it is not as big an issue. But I knew full well then I would be stood down the week after. I asked to take a bit of time off because it wasn’t for me. “I used to get in the car on a Friday and was dreading Saturday. I was thinking, ‘I hope nothing happens’. I used to be petrified sitting in the chair.” Related links:
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