Sean Dyche: Love is shown by telling the whole, brutal truth

I’ve met quite a few politicians down the years but I think I can say — truthfully and without condescension — that nobody has more eloquently articulated the malaise in modern society than Sean Dyche. Across a flowing interview, we range across VAR, sin-bins, points deductions, head protocols, diving, 4-4-2, music, beer and the relative merits of Inspector Morse and The Sopranos — all of which I’ll come to — but it is on the terrain of politics that I am most transfixed by Dyche’s words.

We get there after a brief interlude on what may seem like an unrelated topic: love. What does it mean to care, to show compassion, to reveal empathy? Dyche offers his view by way of a story about his