Sean Dyche talks giving his face a ‘glow-up’, joining talkSPORT, ‘Utter Woke Nonsense’ meme

Sean Dyche talks giving his face a ‘glow-up’, joining talkSPORT, life not on the touchline, and the ‘Utter Woke Nonsense’ meme.

He told the radio station: ‘I’m having a glow-up. I’m getting my gnashers done. I’ve got teeth like Animal, you know one of them muppets. I promised my daughter, she’s been nagging me for years. I promised myself I’ll get my teeth done.

‘I’m getting my nose done but not for cosmetic reasons – I can’t breathe through half of it. I should have had it done 25 years ago,’ he added.

‘On 9/11, we played at Gillingham for Millwall and Guy Ipoua did an overhead kick, I threw my head at it being the brave lion of a defender I was.

‘He overhead kicked me right on the nose and it smashed my shnozz. You know how it was in those days, get on with it. They got a bit of metal and pushed it in. I haven’t been able to breathe properly for years.

‘It’s not the reason for the voice! When they go up my nose with the camera, they look at the voice box. I’ve had it checked about 50 times!’

Sean Dyche was this week announced as a new talkSPORT co-host, taking to the role on Sunday, joining friend and actor Jonny Owen from 12-2pm.

They will discuss a range of topics, from his time at Everton, England under Thomas Tuchel, and what Dyche really thinks about certain aspects of modern day football.

He was asked if he feels nervous about his new venture: “I don’t really get nervous. I wouldn’t say that, I’m chatting with my mate on the radio.

“Hopefully a bit of chat, a bit of banter and a couple of stories, we’ll see how we go.”

Dyche admits to enjoying his time away from the rigours of football management, having spent much of his time visiting close friends and watching his son Max play for Northampton Town.

He added: “I’m open to ideas at this stage. I’ve been in the game a long time. I’ve been in the Premier League for ten years.

“As you know, the game is so fast now. I’ve had lots of offers from media – which I’m considering.

“I’m happy to be doing a bit for talkSPORT and Jonny, who is a friend of mine and very knowledgeable on football and life in general. So I’m looking forward to that.

“You never know what will come around. Football is a strange business. It changes very quickly and the viewpoint changes quickly as well.

“You spend some time out of the game, and suddenly you become a better manager without managing. Because people go, ‘They need that guy’.

“We’ll wait and see. I’m open-minded at the minute. And actually, I’m just really enjoying taking a breath on things… waking up in the morning and just letting the day unfold in front of me.

“It’s simple stuff. Just day-to-day life that you miss out on.”

Dyche reflected on his last job and praised David Moyes on his return to Everton and their upturn in form.

“There’s that mixed bag of people who agree and disagree, but I look back on it as a very successful couple of years,” Dyche said.

“The club was in a bad state. It’s a big club and they were in a poor situation.

“To guide it through that and hand it over… I said in my statement, when I left, they were in good shape.

“People questioned that but it’s been proven right. Moyesy has gone in there and done great with them – just adding a new voice, a new flavour, different details.

“The change was probably at the right time.”

Dyche added: “Overall, it was good. It was a hard finish, but a good couple of years of hard work.”

Jonny Owen said: “He’ll be fantastic, he knows the game inside out and has a great sense of humour. People will love him.

“It’s just having a chat with your mate on a Sunday afternoon, if you fancy it, tune in.”

Dyche spoke about the ‘Utter Woke Nonsense’ meme, something that has become a sarcastic byword for expressing disapproval or disagreement with things in modern football.

This topic, on his first show, came about as they spoke about the time they bumped into a die-hard Chesterfield supporter while in a pizza restaurant after a gig, bringing up memories of his infamous ‘Brexit penalty’ for Chesterfield, something Owen then reminded Dyche about.

Owen said: “If you’re going to do one thing today is watch Sean’s ‘Brexit penalty’, but you smashed it.”

Dyche: “Are we going to start with that Dyche’s Brexit, Utter Woke Nonsense stuff?

“I was at Northampton Town yesterday watching my lad play and this young kid in the corporate area came up to me and said ‘Sean, can I ask you something? Can you just say ‘Utter Woke Nonsense’.

“I said to him ‘absolutely not, son’. All his mates were laughing. Deadpanned him, he was gutted.

“Utter Woke Nonsense, there you go if you’re listening.

“I didn’t actually say it by the way.”

He then had his own moment of Utter Woke Nonsense, talking about Players not celebrating against their old clubs (below), and short shin pads (above).

“What about now when they do that? Oh, I’m not going to celebrate,” he said.

“What is that all about? Well, if you have been at a club for ten years or something then I get it.

“You’ve been at a club for two years and played forty games and they’re going, oh, I’m not going to celebrate.

“Come on. Just celebrate. Just run around. Don’t do a dance, either. Ah, it wrecks my head, that. Just celebrate.”