SEAN Dyche was involved in a bizarre exchange with a Greek journalist after Burnley's 3-1 defeat to Olympiakos on Thursday night.

The Clarets were beaten in controversial circumstances in the Karaiskakis Stadium, with Dyche furious at the intimidation from players, coaches and officials of the Greek club towards Slovenian referee Slavko Vincic at half-time.

Within 15 minutes of the restart Vincic had given Olympiakos a hugely debatable penalty and sent-off Ben Gibson for a second booking in the process.

After Dyche had calmly made his point about the scenes at half-time, he was asked a question by a Greek journalist that referenced Dyche's supposed own disrespect towards the officials, Burnley's failure to create any chances and suggested that Prince William wouldn't have given the penalty the Clarets got, which Chris Wood scored.

The question was delivered in Greek and then translated by the translator who had also done Dyche's pre-match press conference.

This is the transcript of the question and answer in full:

Q: You said before that you have received very strict guidelines from UEFA with regard to the respect you are supposed to demonstrate vis-a-vis the referee and his calls. 99 per cent of what you had to say during this press conference had to do with the referee calls and actually demonstrates no respect to the referee.

The second part of the questions is that today Olympiakos were playing against the seventh best team in the Premier League. Actually you scored a goal having created no goalscoring opportunities at all, you were awarded a penalty that not even Prince William would have awarded.

The third follow-up is do you regret what you have just said because this might provoke some intervention from UEFA?

A: No, there’s no intervention needed, there’s no disrespect, I’m just telling you factually what I saw. There’s no disrespect to UEFA, no disrespect to anyone, it’s factually what I saw, with witnesses, lots of witnesses.

It’s a respectful thing to tell the truth. That’s the biggest respect you can have to the game of football, to tell the truth. That’s exactly what I’ve just done.

I’ve made it quite clear as well that this is a tough place to come, I’ve made it quite this is a very good football side and a very good football club. You only have to look at the history.

If the journalist has misheard that or misinterpreted it from my words, then that’s entirely up to him, I’ve no problem with that, that’s his job, he can do entirely what he sees fit.

And I think Prince William is more of a rugby fan than a football fan.