Midas Cases I
Dean 'Midas' Maynard is a top Reality TV & Sports Pundit, who uses his wealth of experience to review, support and comment on participants in celebrity and sporting careers. Nicknamed 'Midas' by the press due to his many successful predictions, Dean has received widespread acclaim in the UK and USA.
Dean mostly focuses on Reality TV shows like Britain's Got Talent, Big Brother, Dancing On Ice, The Apprentice and I'm A Celebrity amongst many others as well as big sporting events.
Below is a summary of Dean' s Midas work to date. A Midas Act is the person/team that Dean supports during a show or sports event.
Sunderland Cases (2005)
In Spring 2005 Dean was approached by a group of Sunderland fans,They wanted him to look into a curse that had fallen on the club after striker Stephen Elliot and Marcus Stewart claimed they had seen a ghost at the team's training ground.
In fact Stephen Elliot was to utter the famous words that started off the media bandwagon by saying the he hoped he hadn't cursed the club by seeing that ghost.
After eight straight wins Sunderland lost their next home match 2-1 vs Reading, then the following week had all three keepers struck down with injuries and drew with Ipswich after conceding a 92nd minute goal and missing a penalty...missed by Marcus Stewart, one of the players who saw the ghost.
The clubs ground was even nicknamed "The Stadium of Fright"
After a media frenzy and before Sunderland`s next match Dean advised the local press that he would be getting involved to try and help the team, He also went on BBC Radio Newcastle Live and said he would rid Sunderland of their curse and that they would definitely win their next match.
Dean was at their next game against Leicester and their luck totally changed they won the match after a perfectly good Leicester goal was disallowed and managed to achieve promotion that same day, thanks to other results going their way.
This was a feature done before the Leicester game as ever nobody gave me a chance...
Chicago White Sox
Not long after the Sunderland story broke Dean was approached by Chicago White Sox fans to help break a curse which meant they had not won the World Series since 1917. Their team did not win the season finale again until 2005...the year Dean was asked to help.
Chigago White Sox win the world series.
Reading FC (2005/2006 & 2006/2007)
Dean was born in Reading,Berkshire and after Reading lost their first game of the 2005 / 2006 season at home to Plymouth he was contacted by a handful of fans pleading with him to help their club.
Well from that day Reading only lost one other match that season and won promotion to the Premiership for the first time in their history with a record point's total.
Dean also put his backing to the Royals the following season as he was quoted at the start of the season Live on Reading 107FM saying that if Reading got relegated from the Premier league he would retire from his Paranormal work, they finished 8th...job done.
Birmingham City (2006)
For three games of last season Dean backed Birmingham City and although they sadly went down they remained unbeaten during Dean's time with the club. They beat top 6 Blackburn 2-1, drew away at Everton 0-0 and drew with 7th place Newcastle 0-0.
Dean stayed with the blues the following season and they went back up to the Premiership after finishing 2nd in the Championship. Thanks to the Birmingham media for their support during my time in the Midlands.
Crook Town FC
Dean was invited along by Crook Town Chairman Stephen Buddle to four of Crook Town's home games of the 2006/2007 season and they won three and drew one.
For more information go to http://www.crooktownafc.co.uk/. Thanks to Paul for all his help and support with the Crook case.
Dean's Midas skills do the trick again for Birmingham and Crook.
Darlington FC
The next case for Dean was just down the A1 at Darlington. Darlington had not won in 8 games and had only scored 1 goal in 5 matches when Dean got involved just before the next home match vs. Lincoln City.
Before the match Dean spoke to ex Premiership referee Jeff Winter on TFM Radio and told him Live on air that Darlo would definetley win...They did 4-2.
Dean's second case with Darlington F.C was given a mention in the The Times newspaper.
West Ham Case (Halloween 2006)
In late October West Ham had not won in 8 league matches. Dean backed the Hammers to get back to winning ways against Blackburn and Arsenal at home over the Halloween week, He advised of his help Live on BBC Radio London, Yahoo.co.uk also gave Dean a mention and Dean was interviewed on BBC Five Live as well.
Dean`s Midas Touch was featured in Four Four Two.
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