Everton manager Sean Dyche looks back on last season's Merseyside derby celebrations ahead of the final meeting between the sides at Goodison Park on Saturday
Everton manager Sean Dyche gestures on the touchline
Dyche helped end Everton's terrible run at home to Liverpool
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Sean Dyche enjoyed a few celebratory beers and a curry after ending Everton’s 14-year wait for a Merseyside derby win at Goodison Park last season.
The Toffees boss even had old ladies and children coming up to him to congratulate them on the 2-0 win over Liverpool. It was a big victory not only because of the drought of victories on home turn but also because it put a dent in the Reds’ title challenge.
“Emotionally people were just buzzing, they were just happy,” said Dyche. "It is a great feeling when you deliver that to the fans, a great feeling, so when I'm out and about people were just properly buzzing from it and that is a great feeling as a manager.
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“Inevitably, that is a big part of what you try and achieve. That moment when people are looking at you in that way that they do when they are properly buzzing.
“It is quite an amazing thing. You'll get old ladies going 'well done, Sean!' Little kids, old ladies. It is such an odd experience for the next day or two. We popped out for a couple of beers and a curry and people are just coming up to us saying 'oh brilliant.'
“And even a few Reds as well, to be fair, were going 'fair play' so there is a bit of fairness [among both sets of fans] I've learned that in this city. There is fairness here."
Dyche will be hoping he gets a similar reaction in the days after kick-off in the final ever Goodison Park derby on Saturday.
Branthwaite scored in the Merseyside derby last season
Branthwaite scored in the Merseyside derby last season ( Image: PA)
A 4-0 thrashing of Wolves in midweek has helped ease pressure on Dyche and move the Blues five points clear of the bottom three. If they could secure a shock win over table-toppers Liverpool then it would certainly change the mood on the blue half of Merseyside.
"I think I am always motivated but it helps if you can go and win one of those games because people believe in you a bit more,” Dyche said. “The feel good factor, that little moment of history, because of all the years of not winning you go 'ok there is a little piece of me in there somewhere.'
"But as I said it is for the people. I'm always motivated and if we can win it for the Evertonians that will be amazing. “When the whistle blows you don't know if that is going to happen again.
“You don't know the feel, the energy, the difference in personnel, the difference in this case of a different manager. What happened then doesn't guarantee it is going to happen now but it can give you some guidance. I don't know what they will think of it. We'll have our own plan of what we want to do, fitness pending of course."
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