Sean Dyche spoke at length about Everton’s famous win over Bournemouth at Goodison Park that ensured the side’s survival in the Premier League at the end of the 2022/23 season.
The Toffees headed into the final game of the season knowing that only a win would guarantee Premier League safety. It was also the second successive season that Everton’s relegation battle stretched to the final week of the campaign.
Everton were also dealing with a spate of issues with Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Nathan Patterson suffering season-ending injuries in the penultimate game against Wolves.
Speaking about the dramatic week on The Football Boardroom podcast, former Everton boss Sean Dyche said, “It was a turgid week, that, you know, we were down to brass tacks, we had injuries everywhere.
“So we're piecing it together, we changed to a back five and we have got Dwight McNeil playing left wing back with Jimmy Garner[at right wing back]. We had no centre forward that season, Demarai Gray played up front. We had nothing else… and we pulled out for 1-0.
“Doucoure, who was amazing for me from day one that I got in there… scored a worldy on that day. A real positive for Everton fans that day - I've never heard a louder stadium than that ever in my career and I've been in football all my life.
“The noise of that moment [the goal] was incredible - and the final whistle. The two things I would never take away from my career are those two moments.
“It was unbelievable, the power of the sheer volume. It was almost shaking you. I can feel it now. It was incredible.”
Dyche left as Everton boss in January 2025 just weeks after The Friedkin Group took over the club. The club was just a point above the relegation zone when Dyche was replaced by David Moyes, who ended up guiding the club to safety comfortably by the end of the season.
Speaking about his exit and how he had suggested the idea of Moyes replacing him, Dyche added, “I just knew it. I said to the staff: ‘I can see it in these lads’ eyes.’ The weight of Everton's got too powerful and they need it to lift and the only way of lifting it is if the manager goes.
“And I actually said to them, bring Moyes in if he'll do it.
“Everything was left in very good order. The staff knew what they were doing. and the training ground knew what it was doing. Everyone knew how to operate the place.”
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2 Posted 07/03/2026 at 09:47:17
The noise of the Evertonians, the power of the sheer volume, it was almost shaking him, and he can still feel it in his body to this day.
I talk a lot of shite, who doesn’t? But the one thing I don’t think I can say often enough is how powerful Evertonians genuinely become when they truly unite.
I have had a few of those spine-tingling moments watching Everton, moments that can still get me shivering to this day. It’s all about coming together and creating loads of noise, although I would say my favourite moment is still when I think about the rendition of we shall not be moved, when I was walking out the stadium in Rotterdam, all those years ago.
We never ended up winning the fucking lot, but what a moment!
3 Posted 07/03/2026 at 10:12:56
The one I look back on is Wembley 84.
I was chatting to an elderly man next to me about how long we had been away from the big time,a very proud Evertonian with some great stories.
As Abide With Me played he stood to attention with tears rolling down his face.
I was more happy for him than myself that we won it.
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1 Posted 07/03/2026 at 09:22:54