{"id":1134026,"date":"2020-02-28T13:48:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1134026"},"modified":"2020-02-28T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T13:48:40","slug":"referee-mike-dean-spurs-villa-incident-bizarre","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/referee-mike-dean-spurs-villa-incident-bizarre\/","title":{"rendered":"Referee Mike Dean picks out Spurs v Villa incident as &#8216;the most bizarre thing&#8217; he&#8217;s ever done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Referee Mike Dean has picked out his famous Tottenham v Aston Villa celebration as the &#8216;most bizarre thing&#8217; he&#8217;s ever done.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old is well known for his unusual on-pitch antics, with exaggerated facial expressions and cheeky winks toward the camera commonplace.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why did Mike Dean &#8216;celebrate&#8217; Dembele&#8217;s goal? Five things to know&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tottenham beat Aston Villa 3-1 in a Premier League clash at White Hart Lane in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>The goal came about in the third minute thanks to Mousa Dembele.<\/li>\n<li>But the goal was only possible thanks to Dean playing advantage following a foul.<\/li>\n<li>However, because the foul was committed inside the box, Dean technically should have given a penalty.<\/li>\n<li>The referee, who is actually a Tranmere Rovers fan, has now revealed he was merely showing relief that Dembele scored and his mistake went unnoticed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7516762\/embed\/v4\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>However, he really broke the mould during a 2015 Premier League clash between Spurs and Villa, appearing to celebrate a Mousa Dembele goal by pumping his arm having played advantage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OUTRAGEOUS! Referee Mike Dean Celebrating Spurs goal vs Aston Villa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/spurs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#spurs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/astonvilla?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#astonvilla<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fIOJX1Nldc\">pic.twitter.com\/fIOJX1Nldc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FootballVita (@_FootballVita) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_FootballVita\/status\/661588813752500224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Asked on the Peter Crouch Podcast what was the most &#8216;Mike Dean&#8217; thing he&#8217;d ever done, the whistle-blower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cqZjvoUfyrY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a>: \u201cProbably the stupid Tottenham vs Aston Villa advantage about four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve played on and you don\u2019t play on when it\u2019s in the box because its either a pen or you don\u2019t do [anything].<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sancho, Haaland, Hakimi &amp; Brandt | Meet Borussia Dortmund&#039;s Fantastic Four\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OpOpxJuRT0U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC_QgsfA8W1TdLADOz0txpTg?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it\u2019s gone in the back of the net I\u2019ve just gone \u2018that will do me\u2019 but I\u2019ve pointed to the centre circle and didn\u2019t realise I was doing it that much until it showed it on the screen and one official said \u2018have a look at the TV\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought \u2018f****** hell, we are going to get a bit of a b********* tomorrow I think!\u2019 That\u2019s the most bizarre thing I have ever done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>&#8216;We ended up killing 140,000 chickens a day&#8217;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Dean has been a full-time Premier League referee since 2000. However, before making the jump, he worked at a chicken factory to stay afloat financially while he was only a part-time referee, even admitting he used to kill up to 140,000 of the birds per day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worked in a chicken factory for 16 years, worked on the shop floor dealing with the insides of a bird,&#8221; Dean added. &#8220;Then I moved up to the supervisor at the business end where they came in and we had to kill them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn one shift we ended up killing 140,000 chickens a day. I was doing refereeing anyway like local stuff and I would do both jobs. I would start in the factory at 6 am do my shift until 2 pm, go home get my bag drive to wherever, go and referee and get up again at 3 am and straight back into work at 5 am.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referee Mike Dean has picked out his famous Tottenham v Aston Villa celebration as the &#8216;most bizarre thing&#8217; he&#8217;s ever done. 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