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Kieran Trippier once drew the wrath of Sean Dyche after a secret mid-season trip to Benidorm was discovered.
The Newcastle and England defender got his big break at Burnley after joining the Lancashire club from Manchester City in 2011. Dyche arrived a year later and in 2014 they achieved promotion to the Premier League – but their relationship wasn't always sunshine and rainbows.
Speaking to Ben Foster on The Fozcast, Brentford star Ben Mee, who followed Trippier from Man City to Burnley in 2012, said Dyche ripped into the right-back in front of everyone half-way through a Championship clash with Watford in 2013 after learning of his holiday. And Trippier had no one to blame but himself.
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"We've had an international break and Trips [Kieran Trippier] has gone away, and we played Watford the following weekend," Mee revealed. "Trips has booked his flights and printed his boarding pass and stuff off on the computer in the office [at Burnley's training ground].
"He's gone to Benidorm with his mates. So he's come back and he's not trained well all week. And we're getting pumped by Watford and the gaffer's going around the dressing room, like hammering everyone. He gets to Trips and goes, 'And you! F***ing Benidorm!' So someone's seen his boarding pass at the training ground on the printer and the gaffer's caught wind of it."
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Mee said Dyche was well aware of Trippier's penchant for partying when he arrived at Burnley and made efforts to nip the behaviour in the bud immediately after introducing himself. "I remember Sean Dyche's first day at Burnley and he picked out Trips, to lay the law down. In front of everybody," the 34-year-old said.
"Trips liked a little bit of a night out and stuff. He's become a lot more professional these days, but back in the early days… and we're all in the canteen and he picks out Trips and goes, 'I know what you were doing on Tuesday night, you won't be doing that anymore, son'."
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Trippier left Burnley for Tottenham in 2015 following the Clarets' relegation back to the Championship, and quickly grew into one of the Premier League's – and England's – most reliable full-backs. He moved to Atletico Madrid in 2019, and helped the club win La Liga in 2021 before moving back to the UK with Newcastle in January 2022.
Mee on the other hand spent a full decade at Burnley and helped the team achieve promotion back to the top flight in 2016 after Trippier's departure. With 376 games for the club under his belt he left to join Brentford in 2022.
Dyche, meanwhile spent a similarly-long period at Turf Moor. He was controversially sacked in April 2022 with Burnley teetering on the edge of the relegation zone. In January 2023 he replaced Frank Lampard as Everton boss.
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