In Focus with Mike Dean and Mark Chapman
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This is a special Football Daily pod where Mark Chapman sits down to chat to Premier League referee Mike Dean on his extraordinary career, after announcing that he will retire at the end of the season after over 20 years at the very top of the game.
He tells Mark how he started in the lower leagues and rose to the very top – and lets us in on a few secrets along the way… like who were his favourite players - to the manager he feared the most and lifts the lid on what really goes on in the referees dressing rooms. Not only that we hear his views on how the game has changed throughout his time on the pitch and of course VAR gets a mention too!
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| 0:44.0 | This is the Football Daily with Mark Chapman. |
| 0:48.4 | So in everything that I was reading and listening about you before I did this interview, |
| 0:54.5 | it struck me that in a lot of the interviews that you did or podcast, |
| 0:59.0 | you say that on the way home from games, you listen to a lot of radio |
| 1:02.7 | or you watch a lot of tell you when you get home. |
| 1:05.4 | So do I need to say sorry before we... |
| 1:08.6 | No, because there was away last week in Spain, |
| 1:10.4 | and I heard you doing the podcast on the Monday night,, it was okay, so you were good to be there. |
| 1:15.5 | But I thought that was really interesting that you listen and watch stuff after you've referees. |
| 1:22.6 | I think that when I drive home from games, I think that we kind of text each other with the rest and see what's gone on and what's going on this penalty |
| 1:28.6 | what you think of that then you'll hear the radio's on talk sport and |
| 1:31.3 | and five live and they'll say oh there's clearly mr penalty kick it's a |
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