Burnley manager Sean Dyche has sought to clarify his comments from earlier this week about Liverpool’s Daniel Sturridge, stressing he did not label the striker a “cheat”.
Following the Clarets’ 3-1 loss to Liverpool on Wednesday, Reds boss Jurgen Klopp, despite apparently having not regarded them as fouls, expressed his unhappiness about some of the challenges there had been on his players, including one by Ben Mee on Joe Gomez, who suffered a leg fracture.
The matter came up again after Burnley 1-0 win over Brighton on Saturday as Dyche said: “I didn’t call Daniel Sturridge a cheat, I said he was cheating. There’s a difference.
“I don’t know the lad. I don’t remotely, I’m not presuming he is or he isn’t. I was just saying on that occasion he was cheating.
“That is what I will say, because I think that needs to be clear, because I don’t think that’s fair on players.