REFEREE Mike Dean’s future is in doubt after he was again not selected as a VAR official.
He has now not been chosen to oversee any Premier League match for TWO MONTHS.
ESPN claim that performance levels are part of the reason for him being dropped.
Dean has not been at Stockley Park since Leicester’s 4-1 win over Tottenham on February 11.
Since then, Howard Webb has become PGMOL’s chief and SunSport understands it’s his decision to snub the 54-year-old.
Dean retired as an on-field referee at the end of last season after 22 years in the Premier League.
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He has since moved to a role in the VAR hub only.
But he has been unable to stay away from controversy when he failed to intervene to send off Spurs’ Cristian Romero when he pulled the hair of Chelsea’s Marc Cucurella.
Webb has shaken up the PGMOL following a number of high-profile refereeing errors.
Lee Mason failed to spot that Christian Norgaard was offside in the build-up to Ivan Toney netting an equaliser for Brentford against Arsenal in a 1-1 draw.
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This led to Mason, who also stepped away from the pitch to be a VAR man, resigning from his role six days later.
Human error was also blamed when John Brooks incorrectly disallowed a goal that Brighton had scored against Crystal Palace when he drew the offside line from the wrong player.
Consequently, Brooks was taken off his appointments for two matches after.
The Prem’s head of VAR Neil Swarbrick is also retiring at the end of this season.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
