Lets get some some DOSE of WISDOM from football: Dyche(Burnleys Coach) is 42 and where most young gaffers are still fixed on what they know best, the pitch, the training field, playing and coaching, Dyche, already, is all about management. Some tenets: “Ask the players. I’m a believer that you try and give players a no-excuses environment and you do that by asking what they need.” And this: “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got - you’ve got to be open to ideas.” Or this: “Tiny details are what makes the bigger thing work.” ...Dyche is fascinating, strongly driven, but full of the fun in life — traits he shares with the Chelsea manager he’s likened to. “Ginger Mourinho”, the fans at Turf Moor sing. Burnley are at Blackburn today, chasing their first win in this Lancashire derby in 35 years, as well as automatic promotion to the Premier League... Burnley’s revolution started when the former Chesterfield, Millwall and Watford centre-half, replaced Eddie Howe in October 2012. His first act was to give the players a questionnaire. “What it asked was simple, ‘You tell me what you think you were, what you think you are and what you think you want to be,’” Dyche says. “At the time they felt they were easy to beat. A bit open, tactically. They felt they could give more to the cause of winning. But there were some really good things - they felt they had talent, camaraderie. We listened to that.” “Dave Brailsford pointed out sportsmen know their goal. You don’t ram it down their throat. It’s the toil, the graft, the journey to get there, that you tell them about. “You can’t guarantee an outcome, a result, but you can guarantee that when you kick off, you’ve ticked the boxes. You’ve trained right, you’ve rested right, you’ve eaten right, you’ve prepared right. You’re lean, fit, understand your role. It’s a fantastic feeling to stand in the tunnel knowing, ‘That’s all boxed off and now I can bring my talent’. “I put a big demand on training and it caught a few out at first. The seriousness of it. If we have a small-sided game, it’s not a small-sided game where the left centre- half plays right-wing. It’s a game where everyone’s in their positions and we play hard. To win. ....He’s big on diet, inspired after working at Millwall with Matt Lovell, nutritionist to the England rugby union team. Dyche talks of the “strong morals” instilled by his parents. And of Clough. His youth career was at Nottingham Forest, in the twilight of the great manager. “He’s the only person, still to this day, who when he came into the room, even from the older pros it was ‘Wow’. It was almost mythical, his prowess and his grandeur. He was a showstopper. And his messages were very simple. I believe in honesty. Respect. Discipline, Passion. Pride. And Brian Clough believed in all them things. Simple things. Manners. ‘Give me a smile, son’. Look right. That kind of professionalism without ramming it down your throat. “Playing-wise, very simple too. Like Sir Alex, he produced teams ‘Ahead of their time’, playing 4-4-1-1, 4-2-3-1, all them shapes, but it was by looking at the players he had and using commonsense. Nigel, his son, couldn’t run but he could bloody play — so he was a No 10 who dropped off, got on the ball, did that. “Clough’s only philosophy was, ‘If God had wanted the ball in the air he’d have put grass in the clouds’. Pass the ball. But he also said, ‘Show me a player who can head the ball and I’ll show you a player’. He was flexible. Tactically, I’m not looking for Nirvana. I’m certainly not getting drunk on philosophy. I try and simplify it with the players.” He produced a nuggety Watford side who performed way above budget (Dyche was promoted, there, from Malky Mackay’s No 2 but left when the Pozzo family arrived and installed Gianfranco Zola). His Burnley are more expansive “because we have more technicians and with this group I thought we had real power in the front line. Vokesy’s your stand-up centre-forward. “Ingsy’s more fluid, so why not play them together and play to those strengths? I believe in attacking football and moulding my philosophy to the players I’ve got.” More tenets. “I say to players, ‘I talk and I talk and I talk’ first off. Then I’ll demand and demand and demand. If not, I’ll drag you. And if you don’t want any of them you have to exit the building. I usually find the talking and the demanding works. It’s very rare there has to be dragging.” He has a 90-10 rule. “For instance diet. If 90% of the time you’re eating well, then a little dollop of ketchup isn’t going to affect your performance. And if you believe it will, you’re in trouble.” He says he applies commonsense to every part of his life “except Kasabian”. He loves the band. And other alternative rock: Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Temples. He once went to the Hacienda and worshipped The Smiths. He’s keen to point out where a former lord of Gawthorpe Hall had a river diverted to flow past his stately garden. If Dyche takes Burnley up, that will be like rerouting the Thames. - From todays London Sunday Times Guess Arsenal or Man United may end up appointing this guy? ;)
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 11:13:52 +0000
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