DYCHE: CALL ME MR BORING
EVERYEVERY KICK, KICK, EVERY EVERY GOAL, GOAL, EVERY EVERY GAME GAME Clarets boss refuses to get carried away
SEAN DYCHE has given himself a new nickname: The Boring One.
The Burnley boss watched his team win their first away game all season thanks to goals from Ashley Barnes and Andre Gray.
But the man once dubbed ‘The Ginger Mourinho’ did not join his players as they celebrated wildly with the travelling fans.
Dyche (below) said: “After games you don’t see me running up and down the sidelines, not even when we got promoted. It’s just my style. It’s not everyone else’s.
“I know inside what it means. I know that’s an important three points. I know there is an awful lot of work that’s gone into that, as much as all the other three points we’ve had.
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“I just try to stay factual, focused, and it is real. It’s authentic to me. This is not a spin. This is who I am – boring.
“I’m not ‘The Special One’, like Jose Mourinho. But I’m quite special because 95 per cent of the world’s population haven’t got ginger hair.”
Burnley misfit James Tarkowski finally made his first start of the season after spending more minutes on the bench than any other Premier League player.
Now the 24-year-old from Manchester wants to go from benchwarmer to mainstay, by taking Michael Keane’s place in the Burnley back four.
He said: “I had a few people send that stat over to me. One way to look at it is that I’ve been there all season so I’ve been there or thereabouts.
“But obviously it’s not nice to be the player with the most time on the bench. It’s been tough. But I look at what Keano’s done. He’s got in the England team and he’s got a lot of people talking about him from the big six clubs.
“If he can do that I don’t see why I can’t. I need to improve a bit more and get more game time but that’s the target for me.”
Keane, 24, is set to leave in the summer with Everton and Manchester United among the clubs chasing him, so there is likely to be a vacancy in the heart of the Clarets defence.
Tarkowski said: “I’ve got to come back in the right shape and the right frame of mind to challenge for that and hopefully it will be mine.”
Palace could be in hot water after a fan threw a lighter which hit Tarkowski in the face as he celebrated the first goal.
He said: “Yeah it’s not ideal. I got a lighter on the top of my head or something.
“But then I saw pound coins on the floor around me. There were all sorts on the pitch.”
Eagles boss Sam Allardyce blamed defeat on the eighthminute goal scored by Barnes, saying: “Our nerves were shattered when they scored.
“We didn’t recover until half-time, when we sorted it out. After that we tried our best but it wasn’t good enough.” TOM HEATON Key save DAMIEN DELANEY Lead-footed CRYSTAL PALACE (4-2-3-1): Hennessey 6; Ward 5, Kelly 5, Delaney 4, VAN AANHOLT 7; Milivojevic 6, McArthur 5 (Campbell 71); Zaha 6, Puncheon 5, Townsend 5; Benteke 5 (Remy 71). Subs: Speroni, Flamini, Lee, Sako, Schlupp. UP NEXT: Manchester City (a), Premier League, Saturday. BURNLEY (4-4-2): HEATON 8; Lowton 6, Keane 7, Tarkowski 6, Ward 6 (Flanagan 45); Boyd 6, Hendrick 6, Westwood 6, Arfield 6; Barnes 7 (Gray 79), Vokes 6. Subs: Pope, Brady, Defour, Gudmundsson, Long. UP NEXT: West Brom (h), Premier League, Saturday. Referee: Bobby Madley 6. YOUR TURN: Which Ivory Coast international scored twice for Palace when they last beat Burnley at home, 4-3 in the Championship in October 2012?