Mike Dean resigned to officiate PL game following death threats
Premier League referee Mike Dean has opted against officiating a Premier League game this weekend amid abuse and death threats he and his family received this week.
He was criticized over his decision to send-off
West Hammidfielder
Tomas Soucek
for violent conduct against
Fulhamat the weekend.
It was the second controversial incident involving
Dean
in four days after his red card for
Southampton’s Jan
Bednarek
at United was also overturned on appeal.
Dean, 52, has contacted the police. His family received a number of threats, death threats, and abusive messages.
If he does so, it is possible he could work alongside Lee Mason again as officials generally work in groups.
On the situation,
PGMOL managing director
,
Mike Riley
said
: "Threats and abuse of this nature are totally unacceptable and we fully support Mike's decision to report these messages his family received to the police.
"Nobody should be victim of abhorrent messages like this. Online abuse is unacceptable in any walk of life and more needs to be done to tackle the problem."
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