Sean Dyche plays down Burnley chairman programme snub after Everton win

Everton boss Sean Dyche insists there are no issues between himself and Alan Pace after the Burnley chairman failed to acknowledge his former manager’s nine-and-a-half years’ service in his programme notes.

Dyche steered the Clarets to a seventh place finish in 2017/18, which was the club’s highest top-flight placing since 1974 and brought a first return to European football since 1966/67. But he was sacked on Good Friday last year with nine Premier League games still remaining. And overseeing a 2-0 win for the Blues on his first return to Turf Moor, he said: “I saw Alan Pace in the hotel where we were staying this morning – Crow Wood, very nice, it used to annoy me that they had a really nice hotel here for the other teams to stay in – and said hello. Football is a weird business right, I don’t throw my dummy out, I’ve done my bit, I’ve done my years, I shook his hand and said, ‘is everything ok? Nice to see you’, crack on.

“Vincent (Kompany, his successor at Burnley), I met him at the end of last season at the LMA do, told him how impressed I was with his work and how they hadn’t lost the fabric of it even though he’d put his mark on it and changed it to his liking. We can all moan about everyone and everything but at the end of the day, people have got a lot on their plate, I just try and take care of mine and get on with it.”

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Dyche added: “I said when I left, ‘that’s me’. A chapter finished for the club and a chapter finished for me. I’ve a huge respect – I shouldn’t need to say it because I’ve said it so many times because I do – for the