It was a bit of banter. Dyche gave him a tap on the neck as in ‘cheeky bugger’. Tarkowski said to Dyche a minute later that Patterson looked embarrassed, and Dyche stood straight up and apologised to Patterson in front of the whole team and it was forgotten about. They had three training sessions afterwards and there was no fall-out.
Hughes is a cunt who takes snippets of truth and completely twists it to suit a narrative. I don’t think for a second that there’s anything of a bully in Dyche.
I agree that Hughes is a weirdo with an Everton ace to grind.
However, Steve Stone was suspended by Burnley whilst an internal investigation was carried out into alegations of bullying (unproven) but there's often something there for an investigation to begin with.
The Hughes spin machine may well be in full anti Everton mode again, but I'll bet tempers flared and it needed de-escalating as described.
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