" his team were recognized to be the 'bully boys' of the last season’s Championship. I remember the Clarets under Sean Dyche being labelled with such a tag"

Indeed they were BT, which I thought quite bizarre, journos and opposition managers often spoke about how difficult it was to play against this team of big, aggressive bruisers, you knew what you were going to face when you rocked up at Turf Moor. Didn't stop most of them winning though did it, Fortress Turf Moor crumbled into the dust long ago, if it ever existed at all.

I used to wonder if they ever actually watched a Burnley team play, did they not notice that we only had two players, Tarko and Wood, who could even remotely be described as big. When we ran out against the likes of United or West Ham, to name just two, it often looked to me like we were playing in the Land of the Giants. I don't have the stats, but if we didn't have the team with the smallest average height in the PL I would be amazed. But it made no difference, teams continued to be bullied by such huge physical specimins as JBG, Cork, Brownhill, Lowton, Mee, Westwood, Vydra, Taylor and Jay.