Couldn't stand the bloke when he was Burnley manager.
Then, he become Everton manager at our lowest ebb.
Sat 19th with the lowest points total in our history going into February, having just sold a big player with league leaders Arsenal x2 and Liverpool at Anfield due within the first 5 games.
Always grateful to the bloke for keeping us up when I thought we were gone. I shared my view that January why I thought we were doomed - most did. We were bookies, Opta and most Evertonians, even the usually half glass full felt we were about to go.
We stayed up.
Rather than celebrate and first pump and hug the board like the previous manager did the season before, he declared it wasn't good enough and the board needed to get a grip.
They didn't - more sales/profit was needed, and after 2 successive seasons of surviving on the final home game - we get battered by point deductions. After Palace, after Bournemouth if you told fans no investment and point deductions you wouldn't have given us much hope. Perspective wise, we think we're doing great now - take 10 points from us now, and we sit 17th and a result from relegation. Still, in that only full season Dyche had, we earned the points to finish 12th, closer to Europe than relegation. A great effort considering the chaos off the field.
Then, the wheels come off. That's football. It happens, pretty much every manager becomes a villain. His limited methods started to fail, and as soon as new owners come in, he had to go. He knew it, TFG knew it.
For me, the healthy thing is acknowledge the job he did in keeping us up, and appreciate he was only Everton manager as a symptom of the failings of Moshiri and the custodians of the club at the time. Day one of his appointment he admitted he shouldn't be Everton manager.
He did his job, he kept us a Premier League team while we had to make profit after profit until we got new owners.
There, that should set us up nicely.
Oh, can someone tag me on his first appearence on talkSport? I want to be here for when he talks up his record win rate at Nottingham Forest.
