Dyche sees future of ‘hopping around’

Burnley manager Sean Dyche does not expect he will still be a manager at 65 like his West Ham counterpart Manuel Pellegrini – and joked that if he is “you can shoot me”.

The Clarets face the Hammers at the London Stadium tomorrow and the 47-year-old, who reached six years in charge at Burnley on Tuesday, was asked if he could see himself going on in management as long as Pellegrini.

Dyche replied: “No. I won’t be in management at 65. If I am – what was the famous one from Steve Redgrave? You can shoot me.”

Five-time Olympic rowing champion Redgrave famously said after claiming the fourth gold in 1996 that if anyone saw him go near a boat again they had his permission to shoot him.

When asked why he thought that, Dyche said: “Because I don’t think it’ll be that kind of game in the future for management, whether you’re good, bad or indifferent.

“I think the demands of the instant nature of management will change the viewpoint of longevity from the manager’s point of view.

“It’s going to be a future of hopping around clubs, I think – a one-season kind of mentality, possibly.

“There will be few of my situation, and Eddie (Howe, whose current stint as Bournemouth manager also recently reached six years), people like that, who are staying at a club for a long-ish time.”