BURNLEY boss Sean Dyche says the Football Association’s new rule to stamp out diving in the Premier League needs re-wording “for the moral good of the game”.

The FA extended its powers to punish simulation retrospectively from this season. But after Bernardo Silva’s exaggerated dive to earn a controversial penalty for Manchester City against Burnley was not picked up on, Dyche feels the new law has failed to clear up a grey area.

“It (the wording) has to be looked at for the moral good of the game,” said Dyche, who felt Silva deceived the officials under minimal contact from goalkeeper Nick Pope in last weekend’s 3-0 defeat at the Etihad.

“Thirteen stone, athletic, six foot international footballers get the tiniest touch on their leg and go down? Do me a favour.

“Kids copy professional players, they’ll fall over as well. You can’t have kids cheating, you wouldn’t have them cheating at school.

“Without being too pure, if our lads did that, they’d get a little reminder.

“But no one cares, I can’t find anyone who’s that bothered about it, managers, the FA have a very weak rule that covers it but doesn’t cover it, the powers that be don’t seem to be bothered and it goes out to billions of people around the world.

“Fans used to care. Remember when (Didier) Drogba first came over and there was uproar? Fans, pundits, managers questioning whether they need to have a word. Then he became the fantastic player he was, but in the initial stage there was uproar, and now you never hear it.”

A new offence of ‘Successful Deception of a Match Official’ came into force on the opening day of the 2017-18 season.

It states that where there is clear and overwhelming evidence to suggest a match official has been deceived by an act of simulation, and as a direct result, the offending player’s team has been awarded a penalty and/or an opposing player has been dismissed, The FA will be able to act retrospectively under its Fast Track system.

A panel consisting of one ex-match official, one ex-manager and one ex-player would then be asked to review all available video footage of the incident independently of one another and if in agreement then the FA would charge the individual concerned.