ICONIC former Premier League referee Mike Dean is quitting football after 28 years in the game.
The 55-year-old is leaving his role as a video assistant referee.
He has “reached agreement” with Howard Webb, the head of the Professional Game Match Officials, to leave his role following a number of VAR controversies last season.
That is according to The Telegraph, who claim that Dean was “found to be unsuited to VAR duties”.
Dean, who started his career in the Football League as a linesman, stopped officiating at the end of the 2021/22 Premier League campaign.