Mike Dean

Former referee Mike Dean believes Arsenal can win an appeal against Myles Lewis-Skelly’s red card suspension, with a few key games coming up for the Gunners.

Former referee Mike Dean discusses the need for a rule change following a disallowed goal in Arsenal’s game against Aston Villa, highlighting the handball law’s inconsistencies.

Mike Dean was expected to leave refereeing when he retired at the end of the season but there has been a U-turn somewhere and he will now take up a new job in refereeing.

We all know that Mike Dean is set to retire at the end of the season and he will be joined by Martin Atkinson and Jon Moss.

Arsene Wenger looked totally gobsmacked when he was informed that Mike Dean had called him the most intimidating manager he ever refereed.

Mike Dean says that Arsene Wenger was a tougher manager than Sir Alex Ferguson to deal with during games.

Mike Dean has confirmed he will hang up his whistle at the end of this season, having delayed his retirement for a year.

Mike Dean has been in charge of 63 Arsenal Premier League games, far more than any other official in the history of the league, but he’s refereed even more Manchester United games.

Would it even be a trip to Old Trafford to face Manchester United if Mike Dean wasn’t the referee for Arsenal’s game?

Mike Dean’s face might well go down as one of the highlights of this awful Arsenal season, but having to wait until the end of July for it was almost worth everything else we had to go through.

This week, Matthew is joined by Anita to talk a traditional and non-traditional 1-0 win over West Ham, the midfield muddle and Ainsley Maitland-Niles. Plus…

Martin Atkinson took charge of his sixth Arsenal game this season as the Premier League and FA continue to give this man more Arsenal matches than any other but even he couldn’t stop Arsenal beating West Ham.

Arsenal beat Portsmouth in the FA Cup on Monday evening so with most of the news centering around that, let’s look at the stories doing the rounds today.

For the seventh time this season, Mike Dean will be involved with an Arsenal match, this time taking charge of our FA Cup tie at Portsmouth on Monday night.

Arsenal will travel to Bournemouth on Monday night for a match refereed, again, by Martin Atkinson, while Mike Dean will run the VAR. One week…

In this edition of the Daily Cannon Arsenal podcast, Matthew and Anita discuss the draw with Sheffield United, the lack of goals from midfield, and…

When Arsenal played Sheffield United back in October, 76% of fans believed Mike Dean robbed us of a penalty, something he did again when the sides met this weekend.

Even though Arsenal weren’t at their best against Sheffield United on Saturday, had they been given a stonewall penalty when they were 1-0 up then the result would have been a different matter altogether.

Arsenal will face Sheffield United on Saturday afternoon with Mike Dean in charge, Lee Mason as the fourth official and Martin Atkinson running the VAR.

Mike Dean will take charge of our trip to West Ham on Monday night as we move back into our rotation of regular refs with just three taking charge of 60% of Arsenal’s games this season.