Mike Dean has once again become the centre of attention while officiating a Premier League game.
Credit must go to Stephen Hunt for the timing of his piece, where he described Dean as the most arrogant man he had met on a football pitch, on Monday, as Niall Quinn and Alan Smith were basically echoing the sentiment at half-time of West Ham vs Man United.
Dean decided to show West Ham winger Soufiane Feghouli a very harsh red card for a challenge with Phil Jones, and this was the platform for Niall Quinn to let us know what he really thinks of Mike Dean.
He got it disgracefully wrong, in my opinion.
This fella does it time and time again, I mean I try very hard doing this job to understand how difficult it is for referees and not just jump on the bandwagon, but time and time again I look at this guy and his arrogance alone in wanting to be the man, and I suppose, running the show and looking the part and it puts me off.
I'm delighted to make an exception in this case and call him for this, this is rank bad refereeing.
That is the big issue, Dean has absolutely no empathy with the players, and simply won't talk to them because it's like he is above them, and they are lucky to have him officiating their match. Must be an absolute nightmare for the players.
For a site that regularly likes to praise pundits for saying things that are actually true rather than pumping out generic cliches, we don't feature Niall Quinn too often. But that was bang on the money from the former Sunderland and 'Q Sat' broadband man, and we have to say we'd much rather hear his hot-takes on referring at half-time than his co-commentary.
Well in, Quinny.
