HUNGRY DYCHE IN NO HURRY TO REINSTATE CURRY

SEAN DYCHE is raising a glass to Burnley’s champagne European run – but not on his regular pint and curry night. Dyche used to set aside Thursdays for getting stuck into a Madras and naan bread with his No.2 Ian Woan and his backroom staff as they talked tactics. But this season that has become Europa League night – so the treat has had to be brought forward 24 hours before Dyche and his Burnley boys test themselves on the European stage. Wins against Aberdeen and Istanbul Basaksehir have earned Burnley a clash with Olympiakos in the final qualifying round, which gets under way this week.

And Dyche (left) will drink to that – but not on a Thursday. He said: “Yes, we like a couple of pints and a bite to eat, but Wednesday now has to be the new Thursday.

“On a Thursday we will go out for dinner, a few glasses of wine, a few pints and it can be a curry. We’ve got a little routine going on. We go out and it’s football obsessed, about Burnley and what we are doing. We usually end up talking about formations and teams and changes with all these games coming up.

“It’s a bit of downtime for us but we’ll gladly sacrifice a couple of pints and a curry on a Thursday to progress in this competition.”

They are also digesting what Burnley have achieved so far in their first taste of European football for 51 years.

Dyche and his Clarets are living the dream – in the Premier League, where they finished a magnificent seventh last season, and right now in the Europa League. Dyche said: “To