Mike Dean apologizes after the defeat in the derby match between Chelsea and Tottenham. The Glazers refuse to give up (total) control of Manchester United, and Nottingham Forest has now spent the second-largest sum ever.
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“No referee wants to come home from the match and knows he should have made a different decision.” This is how Mike Dean begins his column in the Daily Mail, referring to the derby match between Chelsea and Tottenham (2-2).
Dean wasn’t at Stamford Bridge, but he was in the VAR room. Now the referee regrets not asking Anthony Taylor to consider the situation when Christian Romero tore Mark Cucurella’s hair.
The score then, with a few minutes left to play, was 2-1 for Chelsea. If Taylor also felt Romero deserved a red card, chances are the score would have stayed in the match.
At first glance, I didn’t judge it as a violent act. Since then, I’ve studied the footage and talked to other judges, and in hindsight, I come to the conclusion that I should have asked Taylor to look at the situation for himself on his screen,” Dean writes.
On the other hand, Dean believes that Spurs’ first goal was just right. According to the referee, a very long time – 44 seconds – passed between Rodrigo Bentancur’s intervention on Kai Havertz. Furthermore, Richarlison, who was in an offside position, did not block the sight of goalkeeper Edward Mendy at the moment of the shot.
The second position is difficult for Mike Dean:
“It is a huge disappointment to me because this was an incident over a very good weekend by our judges. Decisions will always be up for debate, this is life as a judge.”
Transparency of government is celebrated in England. Among other things by Chris Sutton who noted the strangeness of an active English judge’s openly admission of a mistake.
“Premier League He’s 30 years old and for the first time we have a referee talking about what happened in a match he was a part of. It’s refreshing,” Sutton wrote in the Daily Mail.
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Of course you can learn a lot from something like that, but at the same time I think I’ve stayed very calm in many situations, says Antonio Conte, who hopes to avoid being suspended at the meeting with Wolverhampton after quarrels with Thomas Tuchel that led to a red card at the end. last week.
glass of the day
Manchester United supporters continue to put pressure on the Glazer family, who many would prefer to see disappear from the club. In recent days, there have been rumors that the owners are tired of the huge pressure – but only partially. Two shareholder family members, Joel and Avram Glazer, are not planning to give up complete control of the club. The Daily Mail says the thing that could deter Britain’s richest man, Jim Ratcliffe, from buying into the company.
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Nottingham Forest spent 140 million pounds (about 1.75 billion kroner) during the summer transfer window. The 16th signing was Wolves’ Morgan Gibbs-White for a massive transfer fee of £25 million (about SEK 300 million).
The newcomer now comes in at number two on the list of top spending clubs – across Europe. Chelsea remain in the top spot with their transfer spending of £158m, close to kr 2bn.