The Fiver | Opening up a can of worms

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Sean Dyche does not eat worms. We know this, because at a press conference on Thursday, a grown man working for a reputable media outlet asked him if recent revelations that he used to eat worms during his time at as a player at Bristol City were true. If nothing else, it was a more original and interesting query than the media briefing staple of “any knocks?” and there to conduct a media briefing before his Burnley side’s match against Manchester United, Dyche joked that he did used to eat worms, has a bucket of gravel for breakfast each morning and occasionally smokes car exhaust pipes. That, he explained, is why he has a notoriously deep and husky voice, before denying he does any of those things and has emphatically, for the record, never knowingly eaten a worm.

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