Sean Dyche could get stung by vicious Everton claim - but huge issue is 32 years in the making

Are Sean Dyche’s own words about Everton now coming back to haunt him?

Back in April 2022, the then Burnley boss rallied his players in a half-time team talk when they trailed 2-1 at home to a Blues side managed by Frank Lampard by declaring that Everton “don’t know how to win a game.” He was right, it worked and the Clarets came back to triumph 3-2,

But while Dyche won the battle, Lampard won the war that season. The victory proved to be his last in almost a decade in charge at Turf Moor as following a 2-0 defeat at bottom club Norwich City in their next fixture, he was sacked on Good Friday and despite a brief ‘new manager bounce’ under Scouse caretaker boss Mike Jackson, Burnley went down and Everton stayed up.

Easter is of course a moveable feast but Dyche’s Everton will now go into Good Friday 2024 without a Premier League win since before Christmas with their most-recent success in the competition coming ironically on his Turf Moor return when the Blues capped a four-game sequence of victories by coasting to a 2-0 success. Whatever way you look at it though, their results since have been a wretched run.

Everton have now gone 11 matches – almost 29% of a Premier League season – without winning. They are now just one game away from equalling their all-time longest ever winless run in the Premier League set under Mike Walker almost 30 years ago between August 20-October 29, 1994.

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Sure they’ve not reverted to the kind of soft touch they ended up as under those ‘end of days’ slumps that ushered Rafael Benitez or the aforementioned