Dion Fanning
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589 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4d ago
Dion Fanning’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Um it's kind of unfortunate, like, because Arsenal, I think I thought Arsenal against Chelsea, I thought they were exceptional.
Right.
I thought they were really um uh as good as I've seen them.
Like last year they just wasted so much time with a um
way of playing.
This year I think they really they were really on it.
Um I think it's staggering in so many different ways, Matt.
Not surprising in lots of other ways.
Like we've talked at the start of the season about this kind of self-perpetuating cult of the referee, you know, the rebranding of PGMOL as pro ref, this kind of like this consultancy class that um you have of former referees and this idea.
That they have become, they've inserted themselves into every aspect of the game.
And you know, you've the post-match Howard Webb with Michael Owen interviews, all this kind of stuff.
And there he is sitting on a podcast telling stories that are probably no more accurate than the stories that players have told on the after dinner circuit for years and years and years, but like what.
without the the the awareness to realise that he isn't one of them.
He isn't a former player.
He's not a celebrity.
He's a referee.
Like it's an important, a hugely important distinction.
And it says an awful lot about the mess that English football has got itself into with referees and VAR.
That, you know, a a referee who only retired as a referee four years ago.
This isn't some story from the nineteen seventies, you know, or or some referee
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