#sean-dyche

#sean-dyche

When I was really little, the first worldwide superstar name I heard was Pele. I used to get a Pele book, cut out figures and put them up on my wall. He was later joined by Glenn Hoddle. I was a midfielder, believe it or not, and he was very much my hero. Dyche admits that his sense of boyhood awe quickly went away when he took his first steps in the game.

Anyone who knows me will tell you I always do the napkin trick at dinner, where you make the napkin elevate Dyche even had a pub named after him in Burnley (Image credit: Getty) My kids say, Oh no when I start, but there's always someone at another table zooming in. The disappearing thumb is a favourite and I love the cigarette rolling across the table trick. Kids love that one!

I thought we should be getting better results, but if you look at the bigger picture, you think, What were your resources? Dyche even had a pub named after him in Burnley (Image credit: Getty) Look at the squad. I knew some of the players were just going over the edge and we should have refreshed two years earlier. The owner was trying to sell the club though, so there was no investment in players.

Evangelos Marinakis has already parted company with two Nottingham Forest managers this season and will be hoping to avoid making a third change in the dugout after appointing Sean Dyche to salvage the club's season. The Forest owner, who also controls Greek club Olympiacos, is known for the uncompromising manner in which he rules the roost at the City Ground. Ange Postecoglou's sacking and Dyche's subsequent arrival has raised eyebrows with neutrals calling into question the way in which Marinakis runs the Premier League club.

I reckon if I went there and played my way, we'd win more games. Just 4-4-2 - give them basic rules of principles.