One day I arrived in Goodison Very early as 1 of the kids was desperate for the Toilet, anyhow ... The officials were warming up & jogging back and forth across the pitch directly in front of us, as the set off from the Paddock/Bullens Rd side I said "here you are kids watch this" ...
as the got close I shouted "REF !!" to Howard Webb, the 4 officials looked at me & I waved a tenner shouting "Go on Howard take it, there's nobody here to see it," he gave me the 'you fffffff...' look but next to him was Mike Dean who looked at him, looked back at me and put out his hand shouting "here, I'll have it," I instantly replied with "It's only a fiver for you cos you're on the line" he was actually the 4th official so he was doing well with my fiver offer tbh.
ANYWAY...
That was on the Saturday & during the following week he was the Referee in the Stade de France for Ireland's play off against France when a certain Mnsr. Henry got away with a little use of his hand.
Now I'm not 1 to cast aspersions on the character of Mr Dean but he had his hand out to me for a bung only a couple of days before.