Rovers v Crystal Palace - FA Cup 5th Round - Mike Dean

[The Red Baron]

Referee: Mike Dean
Assistants: Ian Hussin & Harry Lennard.
4O: Lee Mason

[RobTheRover]

Oh joy of joys.  The king of the arrogant wee men.

[drfchound]

Hope he has to hide that ball up his shirt to stop John or Mallik getting it.

[Donnywolf]

Couldnt really fault him * - and to be fair very little fouling and nowt too underhand

* Could have had a word with Hennessey to say look you are 2-0 up against inferior opposition - youve hardly done owt so do you REALLY need a drink every goal kick

* Played too long in first half added time - and they scored - so imo he then didnt blow straight away but played even more time to make it look as though it was not way over time

4 my biggest score ever

[POD]

Couldnt really fault him * - and to be fair very little fouling and nowt too underhand

* Could have had a word with Hennessey to say look you are 2-0 up against inferior opposition - youve hardly done owt so do you REALLY need a drink every goal kick

* Played too long in first half added time - and they scored - so imo he then didnt blow straight away but played even more time to make it look as though it was not way over time

4 my biggest score ever

I always time the stoppage time.  There were 5 seconds left of the one minute stoppage time when the ball went into the net.  He should really have blown as soon as the game restarted, but for all we know he could have had 1 minute 50 seconds of stoppage time to play in which case he would instruct a ‘minimum’ one minute. 

[keith79]

I thought he did very well. Never seen him for most of the game.

[bobjimwilly]

did ok in the end, but tbf both teams play good honest football and he never had to make a hard decision. was correct decision not to give the penalties, even though the BBC were insisting we got away with a couple.

[drfchound]

The one they called for against Andrew came off his shoulder.

[Jenny]

It made you realise generally how crap officials are at our level. Barely noticed him, how it should be.

Had to laugh at him signing an autograph whilst warming up - what has football become when the referees are deemed celebrities.

[Donnywolf]

Over 4 points om average

Says quite a bit i suppose