“Eddie Howe got overlooked for the England job. If you want to change it, that was a pretty simple fit,” Dyche says. “You’ve got to earn the right, haven’t you? You’ve got to earn the right and you’ve got to be on brand.” On brand? “Well, you’ve got to play the right way, they say. OK, well, I think we would have all taken us winning the World Cup the wrong way.” Like going long against Argentina? “Well yeah, when we needed to do that, we didn’t do it anyway,” Dyche says. “You could easily have said, ‘Just turn them in behind and just back off the pressure’ and we didn’t do it.” “These things are all massively debated now in the game and that’s the challenge for the modern manager. What do you stand for? What does the FA want to project in the team? There was a time in all of our lives when winning was the key thing. I’m not sure it is now. How can winning not be the key thing in a game you need to win?” Dyche believes the focus now on how stems from the amount of data and analysis available to everyone. “The marvel is fans have a better understanding. The madness is fans now presume they know everything,” Dyche says. “They used to just debate a result and say the odd player didn’t play well. Now it’s a tactical debate. My mates do it all the time — I just tell them to shut up. My mate is a plasterer, how does he think he knows more than me? He doesn’t just think he does, actually; he believes he does.”   submitted by   /u/Sparky-moon [link]   [comments]