Former Premier League referee Mike Dean says helium did not mean to "undermine the integrity of refereeing" aft claiming that helium utilized to play mini-games to amuse himself during matches.
Dean had told Jamie Vardy's podcast that helium would try to spell arsenic agelong arsenic imaginable without blowing his whistle, oregon enactment lasting successful the centre circle.
"We utilized to say, 'we'll footwear disconnected now. Right, spot however agelong we tin spell without blowing a whistle'," Dean said.
"I've done that a fewer times successful the Premier League, earlier VAR evidently - went 20, 25 minutes without blowing a whistle."
The 58-year-old has travel successful for sizeable disapproval for his comments with different erstwhile Premier League referee, Mark Halsey, telling BBC Sport that it had added other unit connected officials today.
Dean posted a connection connected his Instagram communicative connected Friday wherever helium did not retract his claim, but sought to explicate the context.
"Throughout my 25 years arsenic a nonrecreational referee, I person ever applied the Laws of the Game to the champion of my ability," Dean wrote.
"My attack arsenic a referee was ever to let the crippled to travel and whenever imaginable I preferred to use a precocious threshold for interaction which the players liked.
"However, if I saw a foul situation that needed maine to instrumentality the due enactment I would springiness it from the close position.
"At nary signifier was it my volition to question, criticise oregon undermine the integrity of refereeing successful this country.
"I person ever respected the assemblage and the work that comes with being a referee."
But is determination immoderate grounds that Dean did successful information play these games?
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