CHELSEA should have returned the ball to Burnley after Tom Heaton kicked it out of play to allow Ben Mee to get treatment, according to Clarets boss Sean Dyche.

Jose Mourinho’s side decided to keep hold of possession following the incident late on in Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge.

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Dyche said he could accept that it if it was an ‘oversight’ on their part, while also adding that Diego Costa had kicked out at Jason Shackell as part of the same incident.

“It is a strange situation and we can only look at an oversight on Jose and his team’s part,” said Dyche.

“Just before the incident Ben Mee goes up for a header and goes over the top of someone and lands heavily on his ribs.

“He tries to get on with it, the ball then goes over the top and Jason Shackell is guiding it to Tom Heaton and Ben Mee and him are doing what defenders do and trying to guide it back to the keeper.

“There is then quite obvious contact made by Costa on the back of Jason Shackell’s legs.

“We have to make sure that there is balance to this situation.

“Our keeper then, because Ben Mee goes down, rolls the ball out of play inside of the 18-yard line to allow our physio to come on and administer treatment to our player.

“Usually that ball comes back into the goalkeeper and then play resumes.

“On this occasion, it must have been an oversight and I can only put it down to that, but Chelsea played on, threw it in and tried to attack us to try and obviously score a goal.

“I will accept it if it is an oversight but I think the protocol suggests that that is not the correct fashion because usually that then gets thrown back to the keeper.”