Burnley manager Brian Laws was unhappy after his side's 1-0 loss to Blackburn Rovers at Turf Moor which left his side deep in the relegation zone.

The Clarets boss believes Rovers winger Martin Olsson dived, conning the referee to award a penalty prior to the 20-minute mark of the contest and effectively losing the game for his team.

The Swede went down in a challenge with Burnley goalkeeper Brian Jensen but Laws was very critical of referee Mike Dean's decision to award a spot-kick for the incident.

"When you look at it in the cool light of day it's clear it's not even a penalty," Laws said.

"Olsson's took a dive, he's conned the referee. The referee's not in a great position and he's given the penalty which was very harsh and left us with a mountain to climb.

"But we didn't get a lot of joy from any of the decisions today and I was disappointed with that. I thought it might even itself out.

"If the referee thought it was a penalty by the goalkeeper then you either send him off or book him.

"I'm not blaming the player, he's done everything possible to try and get a goal against us through a penalty or his own work, but I'm disappointed because we want to see honesty and we want to see the referee get the correct decisions."