Michael Leslie Dean, from Heswall in The Wirrall, Cheshire began refereeing in 1985 and joined the Select Group of Premiership referees eight season ago. At 39, he is one of the Barclaycard Premiership's youngest referees, but the Merseyside shift supervisor turned full-time ref has already taken charge of a FA Community Shield and so should be undaunted by the league's multi-millionaire stars. Ref Dean was also admitted to the FIFA referee list in 2003Mike got himself suspended by the Professional Game Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL)for the last 3 months of 2004/2005. He had got himself involved with Arbitros (Spanish for ‘referees’) Racing, an online horse racing syndicate, and an advert in the Racing Post read “Join Premiership referee Mike Dean in this exciting new venture.” This was judged to be against the terms of his contract, as he was using his status to his advantage.James’ Ref Dean has been present at a number of key moments in Fulham's recent history. He was in-charge of the game against Wolves which ended our record breaking 10 game winning run in 1999-2000, he was in-charge of our first Premiership home game, he was in-charge of the game where Barthez out psyched Steed over a penalty, he was in-charge of the Middlesbrough game when Fulham scored two in the last few moments to take a draw with Gentleman Jim nearly bursting a blood vessel, the brawl at West Brom and most recently he was in charge of the delicious victory against the Blues of Fulham Broadway. We have won three of the eleven premiership games Mr Dean has managed. In his  elevengames he has issued 35 yellow and 5 red cards which is above average for Premiership games. On a more positive note of the cards he has issued Fulham players received 15 yellows and 3 reds with 5 of the yellows and 2 of the reds coming in the rumble at The Hawthorns.Hopefully Mr Dean helps Fulham to a win on Saturday.

Referee Stats - 2007/2008
Ref Dean's whistle useage rate is starting to return to the Premiership average after a career low last season. However his yellow, red and penalty per match figures are currently at an all time high. Thats sounds good!!!	Mr. Dean's Av Premiership Ref Total Match Avg Pos Total Match Avg Games 23           16      Fouls 572 24.9 9th 404 24.8 Yellows 88 3.8 3rd 53 3.3 Reds 8 0.3 2nd 3 0.2 Penalties 7 0.3 6th 4 0.2 Fouls per Yellow - 6.5 4th - 7.6

Homer? (2007-2008) Total Home Away Total Games Fouls Yellow Red Pen Fouls Yellow Red Pen Fouls Yellow Red Pen 23 206 44 5 4 266 44 3 3 572 88 8 7      53% 50% 63% 57% 47% 50% 38% 43%                     Premiership Average 16 49% 42% 52% 65% 51% 58% 48% 35% 404 53 3 4

Ref Dean's foul and yellow stats indicate an unusual anti-home bias relative to other Premiership refs. His bias is even more obvious with red cards as he has given home players 5 reds out of his total of 8. Hopefully he keeps up the good work on Saturday.