Sean Dyche's distinctive voice "due to eating worms"

Former Bristol City striker Soren Andersen, talking on a Danish podcast called Fodboldministeriet, said: "Maybe the voice comes from eating rainworms [the Danish term for earthworms], because every time we trained, he used to eat rainworms.

“Yes, he did. It was horrible, I’ve never experienced anything like it. It was like: ‘Whoops, there’s a rainworm,’ and then he ate it.

“It was a bit disgusting and very strange. He was a good player, and I enjoyed being around him, but the thing with the worms was really strange.

“There was always these worms around, and everybody always commented on it as being disgusting and complained a bit, so I think maybe it was as a kind of a provocation, and to show us that it wasn’t something, we should focus on or care about, he just ate one or two.”

Dyche, a centre half during his playing career, spent two years at Bristol City, although for part of that time he was loaned out to Luton Town.