The day was all about record-breakers. Manchester City's 11th win in a row and Sergio Aguero now poised to replace Eric Brook as the club's all-time top scorer.
Sean Dyche, on the other hand, just sounded like a broken record. At times, the Burnley manager must feel like he is leading the fight against diving all on his own.
Dyche has railed against it long enough and rather optimistically believed the introduction of retrospective bans for simulation this season would stamp out the problem in six months.
But after Bernardo Silva's tumble led to the penalty decision that broke Burnley's resistance at the Etihad, Dyche came across as a man who fears he is fighting a losing battle.