Dyche: Diet of worms is just a bit of banter
SEAN DYCHE brushed off a former team-mate’s bizarre suggestion that he eats worms.
Danish striker Soren Andersen, who played with the Burnley manager at Bristol City, labelled Dyche ‘strange and disgusting’.
Andersen was quoted as saying that Dyche’s gravelly voice was down to gobbling worms but the manager laughed off the remarks and insisted that translating the description of a training-ground prank had caused the confusion.
‘I also smoke exhaust pipes. I have gravel for breakfast. Those three combined often are the things that keep this voice sounding how it is,’ said Dyche.
‘I didn’t actually eat the worms. It was a bit of banter I used to have — I’ve done it here and Watford, too — that you get a nice, big juicy worm hanging out of your mouth.
‘It wobbles, wriggling around. Look as if you’re chewing it and then spit it out. Soren has probably taken it a bit too far. He’s a good lad.’
Dyche revealed that Jonathan Walters could miss the next two months after minor knee surgery and that Burnley are still looking to add to their squad before the January transfer window closes.
He then admitted fears that the scale of Alexis Sanchez’s deal at Manchester United will have an impact on the Premier League’s smaller clubs. ‘Every time a super power spends enormous money it does drip down on a sliding scale,’ added Dyche.
Asked if a £100,000-a-week player could soon turn up at Turf Moor, Dyche said: ‘ It’ll be a while. We’re quite a long way off that at the moment.
‘The numbers have jumped, so who knows? The next TV deal might add to that. Some Championship clubs are paying beyond us. That’s the ongoing challenge.’
Meanwhile, Liverpool full back Jon Flanagan, who spent last season on loan at Burnley, will not be sacked by the Anfield club despite being given a 12-month community order for assaulting his girlfriend in December.
Flanagan spent Wednesday at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court and admitted throwing Rachael Wall into a wall and kicking her while she was on the ground.
Liverpool, furious that the club’s reputation had been tarnished, condemned his behaviour but told him his contract will not be terminated.
He has five months left on his current terms and, having played only once this season for Jurgen Klopp, has no chance of a new deal. He will be free to look for another club in the summer.