Former Premier League referee Mike Dean has supported the decision to show Ola Aina a yellow card during Nottingham Forest’s defeat to Leeds, rejecting the view that the incident required a red card.
Dean’s intervention backs the level of punishment applied to Aina. The available report identifies him as a former Premier League official and says he defended the caution rather than a more severe sanction.
The evidence supplied does not describe the incident itself, identify the match referee or provide Dean’s detailed explanation for his position. It also does not state the final score, when the match was played or whether the decision was reviewed during the game.
Without those details, it is not possible to assess the nature of Aina’s action or the specific considerations behind Dean’s judgement. What is clear from the report is that Dean considered the yellow card appropriate in a match Nottingham Forest lost to Leeds.