Sean Dyche has revealed he is a Liverpool fan and shared how he met Kenny Dalglish in ‘bizarre circumstances’.
Dyche has been out of work since being sacked by Burnley in April after 10 years at Turf Moor. The Clarets ended up getting relegated on the final day, losing against Newcastle United while Leeds beat Brentford.
The 51-year-old - who grew up in Kettering, some 150 miles south-east of Liverpool - admitted he supported the Reds from a distance, watching the teams of Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley which included the likes of Kenny Dalglish, Ian Callaghan and Kevin Keegan. Dyche will no doubt have met most of his former heroes during his time in management, but it was a ‘bizarre’ meeting with King Kenny that stays in his mind to this day.
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“I was a Seventies kid so I supported Liverpool,” Dyche told LADBible . “My local Kettering, Kettering Town, me and my dad used to go down and watch them, they were pretty big in the non-league scene but Liverpool from a distance."
And asked who his favourite ever footballer is, the ex-Burnley boss added: “Got to be King Kenny, met him in the most bizarre circumstances because I’m obviously a man and he treats you like a man in football, in my brain I’m going, ‘you’re King Kenny’, and he’s just chatting to me going, ‘oh alright, Burnley are going alright’, and I’m still goingm ‘you’re King Kenny’, in my head.
“Weirdly, I was in the Championship and he was at a Preston game, can’t remember why he was there, he was just there and tapped me on the shoulder and said, ‘alright Sean’. I met him another time when I was at Anfield. It’s just that weird thing they say don’t meet your heroes but Kenny is a proper legend.”
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