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Mike Dean, you’re a ******

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I’ve no idea if I’ve railed about Mike Dean before, but he’s this week’s ***** Referee. Along with Wigan Athletic cheating (Heskey in particular – diving bastard), Dean seemed to have made his mind up at kickoff that Newcastle United wouldn’t be walking off with any points in yesterday’s game.

I listened to a bit of the game, followed as much as I could on the BBC live text and watched the highlighs on Match of the Day. Heskey should have won a free kick way outside the box, near the halfway line. The linesman Was going apoplectic waving his flag and the referee ignored it. Until Heskey tumbled in the box while there was no contact.

Sure, had he gone down under a challenge then I’d have been forced to accept they deserved a penalty. And with the “last man” rule then Bassong would have had to go. Thing is, at the point Heskey went down there was no contact. Which makes him a cheat and the referee a fool.

Cattermole’s challenge on Beye wasn’t great, but neither was it malicious. Still, no use to Habib who’s now missing a few games.

And then the yellow card to Andy Carroll for diving. Which seems a bit harsh given that he had a Wigan player’s knee in his spine at the time he went down. The referee had a clear view and rather than give us the chance to level the score (and make up for missing a blatant Wigan handball two minutes earlier) he brandished his yellow at entirely the wrong player.

So stand up, Mr Dean, and accept your award for ***** Referee of the Week. Feel free to take the trophy down to the pawn shop and get some cash to put towards some ******* glasses. You ******.

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Confused

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Has someone introduced new rules into football regarding tackles and the validity of playing the ball? I ask as I thought it was just us being the victims of bad refereeing recently, but after watching the sending-off of Wigan‘s Emmerson Boyce against Newcastle at the weekend I’m questioning that.

The drop to 10 men kind of helped us – we’d been somewhat flat beforehand – but no way should Wigan have had a man sent off. It’s probably no consolation, but look at what happened to Habib Beye the other week, and Coloccini’s yellow against Fulham was a work of fiction as well.

Two great goals in the game, though – Wigan’s first and Martins’ for us. Both pearlers. Still, at home against Wigan, one point still isn’t enough. JFK is doing OK for us, but we still need more. I’m for giving the guy a bit of leeway and, unless we’re going to get Keegan back as the result of a takeover, I’d say we should stick with him. If nothing else, he deserves it for having the balls to give the job a go when nobody else would take it.

Next up – Chelsea away. Oh, bugger.

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