SEAN Dyche has revealed other managers have told him to stop banging the drum on diving - because it might harm his career.

The Burnley boss has regularity highlighted simulation as a scourge of the modern game, the issues again coming to light after the Callum Hudson-Odoi incident in the defeat to Chelsea on Saturday.

The 18-year-old was initially awarded a penalty at Turf Moor only for the VAR official to overturn the decision with the winger booked for diving.

Dyche’s post-match comments, the Clarets boss insisting he was making a wider point about the game and not the player himself, drew plenty of attention. But he insists it is something he will keep talking about in a bid to force change.

“We’ve got a meeting coming up with the Premier League and it is one of the taking points, so that could be interesting, I’m not backward in coming forward,” the Clarets boss said ahead of tomorrow’s trip to Sheffield United.

“I’ve been told by other prominent managers to stop going on about it because it will affect my career.

“I said, ‘sorry, not my bag’. You have to be true to yourself and able to look at yourself in the mirror.

“A couple of managers said it could affect me. I’m the bad guy, don’t forget.

“But at the end of the day, it was a passing comment over a chat, and I said it wasn’t my thing.”

Dyche is particularly concerned about how much diving he is seeing in youth football, the Clarets boss watching son Max play for Northampton’s Under-18s in their FA Youth Cup defeat to Colchester United earlier this week.

Trying to teach the teenager good habits is part of the reason he feels so strongly about the issue.

“The worst thing about it is kids football, where they’re all doing it now, the FA put in a kajillion quid in to respect grassroots football - just stop them from diving,” said Dyche.

“Give the ref a chance, stop diving, feigning injury, rolling around, when they’re little, and they’ll grow up now doing it.

“I’ve seen it for years, everyone going down from minimal contact, and where do they learn it from, the TV, stadiums. You’re not born thinking, ‘I’ll wait for contact and, bang, I’ll go down’.

“ I’ve got a kid who plays, and it would be ridiculous for me to let it (diving) go and then tell him I don’t want to see him doing it.

“That’s double standards. I’m not going to send him as a scholar off on a path I find unacceptable.”