Some Arsenal fans as well as Spurs fans are not particularly happy with the choice of Dean for Sunday’s game, citing the Englishman’s propensity to be biased against Arsenal as their reason for discomfort.
Dean has not taken charge of any Premier League game the Gunners have been involved in this season. However, he was in charge of the Carabao Cup match between Arsenal and Brentford.
Arsenal eventually went on to win that game by three goals to one at the Emirates Stadium.
Here are some tweets from fans at the appointment of Mike Dean as the centre referee for Sunday’s game:
There have been mixed reactions from Tottenham and Arsenal fans alike. The Spurs fans have been referring to the incident last season, where Dean supposedly made some questionable calls on Arsenal goals against Tottenham at the Emirates Stadium. The Gunners ended up triumphing by two goals to nil.
After the match, Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino was quoted as saying in the Independent UK:
According to world football.net, Mike Dean has issued nine yellow cards against the Gunners in 2017 alone. He was in charge of the games that Arsenal played against Stoke, Tottenham and West Brom.
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