Two months on from his Everton exit, Sean Dyche is beginning to emerge again with various media appearances.
The 53-year-old’s time away from the limelight has not lasted too long with Dyche recently featuring on TalkSPORT.
Dyche admitted Everton were right to appoint Moyes, with the evidence there for all to see in the club’s turnaround in results.
Everton are returning from the international break on the back of a nine-game unbeaten run in the Premier League.
Focus will now be on the upcoming Merseyside Derby on Wednesday for the Toffees.
But Dyche has now brought up more from his time at Everton which really wound him up when watching on from the sidelines at Goodison Park.
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Sean Dyche hated one thing Everton’s Dominic Calvert-Lewin did
In his recent media appearances, Dyche said some Everton players couldn’t handle the pressure put on them by the size of the club.
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Quite the claim from a manager whose number of wins this season was surpassed in weeks by Moyes after replacing him.
Speaking on The Rest is Football podcast, Dyche has now admitted he used to hate seeing players – like Dominic Calvert-Lewin – cut holes in their socks.
“I mean, I’m not a great fan of all of that, but I think he’d [Brian Clough] really, I think he’d really struggle with it, you know, players doing dances and, you know, having little bits of their sock cut out on the back,” said Dyche.
“I think he’d be like: ‘What? Wearing cut socks every game?’ And it drives me mad, to be honest.”
This is not the first thing Dyche has found issue with when it comes to players and their clothing habits.
Everton overruled Dyche’s no-snood rule as soon as he was sacked, with Carlos Alcaraz welcoming the change after his arrival to a cold Merseyside.
Calvert-Lewin is one of the Everton players who has been spotted in the past cutting a number of holes in his club socks.
Iliman Ndiaye has copied the Jack Grealish style of pulling socks almost down to his ankles, which many old-fashioned fans will not agree with.
But the reasoning behind players cutting their socks is interesting, with Kyle Walker previously telling SPORTbible.
“The socks were actually too tight, so it was causing pressure on my calves,” he said.
Kyle Walker has taken a pair of scissors and cut holes all through the back of his socks… ✂🧦
Danny Rose has done exactly the same thing and people are just plain confused about it. 🤔https://t.co/g9dVDWiPGU
— SPORTbible (@sportbible) August 7, 2018
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“It was just to release my calves—or release the tension. I just cut holes in them, and all of a sudden I had a few alright games, and I was like, ‘Okay, I’m keeping this now!’”
Clearly, it is not something Dyche agrees with and it is comments like this which make it apparent why he may have endured some struggles at Finch Farm.