"Yes Zola was right about us being wasteful of time, Dyche has stated he hates when players cheat fellow professionals by diving about like they have been shot trying to gain advantage, and even to get players sent off, but are we not doing more or less the same thing in a different manner ? my Mam used to tell me 2 wrongs don't make a right, but obviously in Dyche's mantra it seems O.K."

No, I don't think it's the same thing at all Alto. There are very few players who deliberately throw themselves onto the floor when they haven't been touched, and those that do invite such ridicule that it seems to me the practice is slowly dying out, and that's what Dyche is referring to. What we were doing last night is standard practice in football, I see it every week even down Clitheroe, you just know if the away team is leading with ten minutes to go and one of their players is tackled hard, he just isn't going to get up, you can be 100% certain he's staying down, every time. It happens at level 8, it happens all the way up to the PL and International football.

Although no doubt it does eat up more time than refs allow, that's not Dyche's fault, if players go down to receive treatment then the ref should add the time back on at the end. Theoretically no team can waste time, the ref should simply add it back on if they do, it's not for Dyche to do the ref's job for him and ensure the correct amount of time is played.

The implication seems to be that we cheated Chelsea last night, that what we were doing was somehow unfair. I just don't buy it, football isn't fair and, especially in the PL, it isn't a level playing field either. Chelsea weren't happy with their squad last summer so they spent £186 million on Jorginho, Kepa and Pulisic, then they loaned in Kovacic from Real Madrid, they still weren't happy so in January they brought in HiguaÃ*n on loan, an ex Real Madrid and Argentina striker. We can't compete with that off the field, and we can't compete for skill and talent when they put those players on the pitch against us, so Dyche has to find a way to nullify that massive inbuilt advantage they have any way he can, within the laws of the game, and last night that involved slowing the game down and breaking up their rhythm by exaggerating any aches and pains they might be feeling. It couldn't have been designed to waste time, the ref has the power to add it all back on, and more if he sees fit, it was simply designed to break up the Chelsea rhythm, stop them building up too much of a head of steam. And that's all Chelsea had to complain about really, we only gave away four free kicks, no outfield player got a yellow card, Hazard for probably the first time in his career walked off without having been fouled once, in reality we were the perfect gentlemen, if their expensively acquired superstars couldn't handle a couple of extra stoppages, that's their problem not Dyche's.