Dean and his family received death threats after two controversial refereeing decisions last week as Southampton’s Jan Bednarek and West Ham’s Tomas Soucek were sent off. As a consequence, Dean has requested to be taken off Premier League refereeing duty this weekend, while players such as, but not limited to, Manchester United trio Marcus Rashford, Axel Tuanzebe and Anthony Martial have all been targets of racial abuse. - Alexander Sabadash