Mike Dean's admission that he was wrong to let Cristian Romero get away with pulling Marc Cucurella's hair is meaningless and it won't retrieve the two points it cost Chelsea.
Let's not sugar-coat it. In the long run, if Chelsea finish fifth, and miss out on the Champions League by a point, ultimately that decision could cost them tens of millions of pounds. Over the course of a season, there will be other incidents where they may feel aggrieved. But they won't make this one any easier to swallow.
I liked Dean as a referee and I thought he was one of our best officials on the pitch, a good character as well as a fair man applying the laws of football. But as a VAR, his job is to make the RIGHT decisions, right here and right now – not to admit he made a big mistake in a newspaper column four days later.
