If ever a voice perfectly reflected a manager’s style of play, it’s Sean Dyche’s.
Dyche’s trademark gravelly tone is unmistakable and, if he wasn’t such a friendly gentleman, it would be quite intimidating.
While he’s never anything but perfectly polite in interviews and press conferences, we’re sure he’s had to deliver a bollocking or two in his years as a manager.
Dyche’s reputation has skyrocketed in his time in charge of Burnley and the way that he’s set the Clarets up to be difficult to beat first and foremost has earned the 46-year-old comparisons to the likes of Jose Mourinho and Diego Simeone.
He’s one of the most fascinating figures in British football and, in case you were curious about his distinctive voice, a former teammate has shed some light on a possible reason for its gravelly nature.
Soren Andersen, who played with Dyche at Bristol City, has hinted Dyche’s bizarre dietary habits in training might be the reason for it.
“He had exactly the same voice,” Andersen told Danish podcast called Fodboldministeriet, as translated by the Mirror.
“Maybe the voice comes from eating rainworms (Danish term for earthworms), because every time we trained, he used to eat rainworms.
“Yes, he did. It was horrible, I’ve never experienced anything like it. It was like: ‘whoops, there’s a rainworm’ and then he ate it.
“It was a bit disgusting and very strange. He was a good player, and I enjoyed being around him, but the thing with the worms was really strange.
“There was always these worms around. And everybody always commented on it as being disgusting and complained a bit.
“So I think maybe it was as a kind of a provocation, and to show us that it wasn’t something, we should focus on or care about, he just ate one or two.”
