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Mike Dean insists his admission that he attempted to protect his \u2018mate\u2019 Anthony Taylor by failing to instruct him to review a decision during last season\u2019s derby between Chelsea and Tottenham \u2018have been blown out of proportion\u2019. <\/p>\n

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The now retired former Premier League official was on VAR duty at Stamford Bridge last August when an already tempestuous match reached boiling point in the closing stages.<\/p>\n

Chelsea were furious when Christian Romero went unpunished despite clearly yanking Marc Cucurella\u2019s hair. Taylor missed the incident but wasn\u2019t sent to the pitchside monitor by Dean who confessed earlier this week that he wanted the referee to avoid additional \u2018grief\u2019.<\/p>\n

Dean, now working as analyst for Sky Sports, has been accused of undermining the integrity of officials up and down the country which prompted PGMOL to issue a statement, in which they distanced themselves for the comments made by their ex-employee. <\/p>\n

Responding to the growing backlash, Dean told Sky Sports: \u2018It\u2019s funny because it\u2019s all been blown out of context. <\/p>\n

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\u2018It\u2019s been out in news reports before maybe four or five months ago. It\u2019s not new news. Referring to him as a mate, you\u2019ve got to look at it in context. <\/p>\n

\u2018You might not like some guys in your refereeing group but when you get a game at the weekend there\u2019s four of you in the middle, there\u2019s the VAR and AVAR so those six people are your mates for the day. <\/p>\n

\u2018At 3 o\u2019clock on a Saturday afternoon they\u2019re your mates and you want your mates to do well. The mate thing has been blown all out of proportion. <\/p>\n

\u2018I want to support the referee as much as you can as a VAR. Yes, it was wrong I should\u2019ve sent him to the screen but to say I didn\u2019t send him because he\u2019s a mate is a farce.\u2019<\/p>\n

Dean added: \u2018Both managers had been cautioned he\u2019s cautioned about eight or nine players. I tried to protect the referee, not because he is my mate. It was wrong and I paid the price because I didn\u2019t have a game for three weeks.<\/p>\n

\u2018If I said colleague it\u2019s a bit different. You\u2019re just mates on the day. Buck stops with me, I should\u2019ve sent him it\u2019s as simple as that.\u2019<\/p>\n

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