The Fiver | Identifying the second proudest man in Proudsville

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Once upon a time there was a funny Italian oddball who gave his players pizza, made everyone laugh by saying adorable foreign things like “Dilly-ding, dilly-dong” and earned the freedom of the city of Leicester by winning the Premier League title with Robert Huth and Wes Morgan as his centre-backs. But that all happened a very long time ago, which is why a lot of people forget that all that success was masterminded by a couple of no-nonsense English men called Nigel and Craig, and it doesn’t really match up to Plucky Little Burnley rising into their highest league position in the top flight for 42 years. “I’m proud of it,” Sean Dyche thundered after the Clarets beat Stoke City 1-0 to go fourth on Tuesday night. “The proudest man in Proudsville. I’m proud of all of it.”

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