Furious Sean Dyche accuses Arsenal of dives and ‘absolute cheating’

• Burnley manager singles out Özil, Xhaka and Guendouzi
• ‘We’re on about blatant, no touch, no contact’

Sean Dyche unleashed a furious diatribe about cheating in the modern game after being incensed at what he felt were a series of dives by Arsenal’s players. The Burnley manager, whose team lost 3-1 at the Emirates Stadium, mentioned Mesut Özil and Granit Xhaka as being among the culprits while he also suggested Matteo Guendouzi had been guilty.

“We’re on about blatant, no touch, no contact; about phantom touches and people just jumping up in the air and going over,” Dyche said. “The absolute cheating, dives. No one seems to want to do anything about it, apart from me. If one of their players had been booked for it – he would have been off [Guendouzi was already on a yellow card].

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