Sean Dyche: My Burnley players will NOT cheat to survive in the Premier League

SEAN DYCHE has revealed another Premier League manager told the Burnley boss to “get with the times” about diving to secure their top-flight status.

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Burnley are two points adrift of safety ahead of their Premier League clash with Everton at Goodison Park tomorrow, and Dyche revealed that a leading boss, who he would not name, told him to take a more pragmatic view about simulation when the stakes are so high.

But Dyche says his own moral compass would not permit him to take such a stance.

“One prominent manager said to me, ‘You should get your players to move with the times’,” said Dyche. “It’s not my belief. You should play the game properly.

“There’s been minimal, if any, simulation from our players. We want to play football and we want to win games and we want to do it in the right manner.

“Maybe that’s naive at times, which is sad in the modern game. I see it constantly in this league, more so than I ever thought I would.

“There’s little kids out there diving around playgrounds. I cannot believe the British football fans who watch the Premier League want people simulating and diving. I can’t believe in our psyche we think that would be acceptable.

“At this level we have been naive at times, in the right way, and that’s sad, sad that players just can’t go out and play and get decisions that they should get.”

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Sean Dyche wants his players to win in the right manner

Dyche believes the introduction of retrospective punishment is the only way to rid the game of blatant cheating.

“We hammer referees at times, all of us, but they’ve got an impossible task – there is so much of it,” he said.

“You hope in the future there will be retrospective bans to clear that up, because I don’t think any fan wants to see it.

“Morally we talk to our kids about fairness and playing the right way and yet, in one of the most powerful leagues in the world, there are people dropping everywhere.”

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