There are many reasons why Sean Dyche is both Everton’s Mr Right and Mr Right Now.
A squad that’s been lacking in application, fight and organisation is ready-made for Dyche to work his magic; the disc-bearded general led Burnley to six successive seasons in the Premier League, utilising pluck and balls to regularly bloody the nose of richer clubs.
His press conferences are equal parts engaging and enthralling, with Dyche showing no respect for convention and regularly veering wildly off script. While Evertonians will just want three points, humble football writers have missed the 51-year-old’s odes to lookie likies and the Hacienda.
This is a man with charisma, personality and a plan to keep Everton from the oblivion of a league trip to Plymouth Argyle. But, most importantly, he regularly burrows his way under Jurgen Klopp’s skin.
Both Dyche and Klopp wear their hearts on their sleeves, meaning clashes between the pair have been both frequent and entertaining.
They first clashed in December 2018, with Klopp raging about Burnley’s aggression and Dyche rebuffing claims his players went out to injure their opponents.
As an aside, the Burnley boss added: “It’s funny, he didn’t reference Daniel Sturridge’s cheating. I just can’t believe Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool fans – and I don’t believe they do – would want cheating in the game and sacrifice good, honest challenges.”
The sound of Klopp grinding his veneers into fine dust could be heard at both ends of the M66.
After an uneasy truce, the rivalry exploded at an empty Anfield in January 2021. Burnley’s 1-0 victory ended Liverpool’s incredible 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League and Dyche couldn’t resist a dig at half-time.
A zoned-out Klopp was zapped back to the present after receiving some traditional English oaths from his managerial counterpart.
As the Liverpool boss marched to confront Dyche, the gravel-voiced one kept sledging Klopp with the zeal of an Australian wicket-keeper spooking the English opener at the MCG.
Dychey hates the kopites 🤌🏼🔵 pic.twitter.com/5ygAlupu95
— Dylan (@efcstaffo) January 27, 2023
Klopp attempted to brush off the incident as “nothing” at full-time, but Dyche was not as reserved.
“You know when we come to these places, we are allowed to actually fight and are actually allowed to try and win,” the victorious boss said. “That’s all it was. It was nothing out of the normal – just two managers fighting…
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