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​Burnley boss Dyche wants diving rule stringently applied

Burnley boss Sean Dyche says he wants to see more players punished for diving under the FA's new rules, reports Sky Sports.

Everton's Oumar Niasse was handed a two-match suspension last week after a panel retrospectively charged him with 'successful deception of a match official' during a draw at Crystal Palace.

Dyche said: "I hope retrospective bans are handed out all over the place.

"For me, they should be all over the place, all over the pitch.

"If you are going to do it right and clean it up, then clean it up.

"If you look at the rule, it is virtually impossible that someone actually has something happen to them.

"It has to be a key moment, hardly any touch, if not no touch, it has to be in a danger area, etc etc.

"I think they could be more stringent on the rule."

Dyche thinks the fact just two bans have been handed out so far suggests that the rules need a re-think.

He added: "Think how many games have been played before someone was affected by it.

"[The] debate on that person [Niasse], that is not for me to decide.

"But if you think how many incidents there have been, I think there is more going on in the game than those two incidents.

"I think it needs sorting out all over the pitch, I don't believe anyone wants to see it. Maybe I am old fashioned.

"The moralistic view is to tidy it all up, for the kids.

"They need to know it is not a game that accepts, let's call it simulation, instead of the word that we know it really is."

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