Former referee Mike Dean did not intervene on an important VAR call because he did not want to burden ‘a mate’, he has revealed. In the final minute of Chelsea’s clash against Tot…
Dean on VAR did not intervene when Cucurella had his hair pulled by Romero last seasonThat was because, at the preceding corner, Cristian Romero yanked Marc Cucurella down by the hair - an incident that VAR should have cleared up.Antonio Conte and Thomas TuchelAnd he admitted to Simon Jordan on his podcast Up Front that he did not intervene as he did not want to give any more grief to his 'mate' Anthony Taylor, who was refereeing at the time.
“It’s one of them where if I had my time again, what would I do? I’d send Anthony [Taylor] to the screen.
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