Sean Dyche makes Everton admission after Craig Pawson backlash and gives Arnaut Danjuma latest

Sean Dyche understands why members of his squad took the decision to speak out about Craig Pawson following last weekend’s Merseyside derby defeat to Liverpool.

Blues players were left incensed when referee Pawson failed to send off Ibrahima Konate after he brought down Beto. The Liverpool centre-back escaped a second yellow card for a trip on the Everton forward with the game goalless. At that stage Dyche's side were already down to 10 men after Ashley Young was given his marching orders for two bookable offences during the opening 45 minutes.

A brace from Mohamed Salah would go on to secure the Reds side a 2-0 victory, but after the game, a host of Blues players came out and questioned the call made by Pawson midway through the second half. Jordan Pickford called for '"less arrogance" from referees when addressing the decision; Jarrad Branthwaite suggested that Pawson had applied double standards to his decisions, and James Tarkowski bemoaned a lack of consistency.

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And while Dyche is keen on his players not talking about officials after games, he accepts that when a call of the magnitude of the one involving Konate goes against you like it did last weekend, members of his squad are going to let their frustrations be known.

The Everton boss said: “I said afterwards you don’t really, as players as well, want to be talking about officials; if you can help it, I certainly don’t.

“But it is tough because they are still human and it is still their job and their livelihoods, and when something, what I felt was an obvious moment, goes against you, then that