Whitehead was dismissed early in the second half on Saturday having been shown a second yellow card by Dean shortly after Tottenham had gone a goal up. Spurs went on to win the match 2-1 and Pulis revealed afterwards he had tried to have Dean removed from the game due to concerns over previous incidents earlier in the season. Pulis has confirmed he had contacted the Referees' Association about the matter since the match and was waiting for their response. "I've spoken to them again this week. They are going to give me a bit of time to cool down and then come and see me and have a chat with me," Pulis said. Asked if he hoped Dean would not be refereeing any of Stoke's games for the remainder of the campaign, Pulis said: "Yes, it would be really nice." Pulis was incensed by Dean's decision, which he felt turned the entire course of the game. "I thought we edged the first half and were the better team in a tight, tight game," Pulis said. "Obviously the first four minutes of the second half, with the goal and then Dean being sent off, had a massive influence on the game. "We have made our views very clear to the Referees Association about Mike Dean and we hope that will be rectified. "But I've watched lots of games this year where challenges like that have not been punished, and we were desperately disappointed." Despite the defeat - the Potters fifth successive game without a win - Pulis was pleased with the team's overall performance and insisted that after coming through a tough run of matches in recent weeks, his players were in a positive mood ahead of Saturday's trip to West Ham. "It's been a real top performance again," he said. "In the second half, especially with 10 men against a team that has got so much quality, for us to work the way we worked...and really, we had two great opportunities to score a second goal, Ric (Fuller) to put us in front and then Mama (Sidibe) right at the end. "There were opportunities for us and the spirit of the team has been fantastic. He continued: "When you are in the Premier League, you can get a run of games that are very difficult, and if you look at it, we've played Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City twice, Tottenham and Aston Villa. "That is most of the teams, apart from Manchester United, in the top six of the table and in three of those games, we had 10 men on the pitch. "So you can pick games where you are going to get bad runs because of the opposition." Pulis watched West Ham sink to a 3-1 defeat against Wolves at Upton Park on Tuesday, a result that has left them 17th in the Premier League, just three points above the drop zone with seven games to play. The pressure is on the Hammers and their manager Gianfranco Zola to start finding results quickly, and Pulis is expecting to come up against a fully-committed side on Saturday. "I thought Wolves were good (on Tuesday)", Pulis said. "They worked their socks off and deserved to win the game without a question of a doubt. But I can't see West Ham playing that badly against us. "I think they will give it their lot on Saturday - I think they have to. I think the time has come for them to stand up and it will be a difficult game for us." Asked if he thought West ham had a good enough squad to beat the drop, Pulis said: "Yes, just a little bit! They have got some top, top quality players."
