SEAN Dyche doesn't intend to start offering pre-match coffees to his opposite numbers at Turf Moor, despite enjoying a brew before kick-off at Selhurst Park with Roy Hodgson.

In a twist on the tradition of sharing a post-match drink Dyche and Hodgson got together before the game in south London, swapping stories before Burnley faced Crystal Palace, but avoiding giving away any tactical secrets ahead of the match.

Dyche said he had 'nothing but respect' for Hodgson and the feeling appears to be mutual, with the 70-year-old suggesting the Burnley boss could be a future England manager before Saturday's game.

And with Dyche familiar with two of Hodgson's key lieutenants in Ray Lewington and Steven Reid, he was glad to accept the offer of a coffee as the players went through their pre-match warm-ups.

"You’ve got to remember it should actually be normal because most managers, at that moment, there’s nothing more you can do. Obviously if someone broke down in the warm-up, but you're planning is done," Dyche explained.

"We’re not talking about who is going to do what in the game, it’s more bigger picture stuff.

"That last window before the game there is nothing you can do, the team should be prepared, it should know what it’s doing, it should be ready to deliver and just before they go out you might issue a few reminders.

"But it’s just dead time, you just sit there wondering what the game is going to develop like. Roy said ‘do you want to pop in and have a coffee?’. His office is right next to the away dressing room so I said ‘of course’."

It's not the first time Dyche has shared a brew ahead of a game with another manager, having invited Steve Bruce into his office to watch the Saturday lunchtime kick-off before Burnley played Hull City in the Premier League in November 2014.

But the Turf chief doesn't plan to start a managerial drinks revolution by swinging open the door to his office to every top flight boss.

"The ones I know," Dyche said of the prospect of making it a regular occurrence.

"I know Roy a little bit through Ray Lewington, who was my manager of Watford, I’ve fantastic respect for him as a manager and a person, and Steven Reid, who I played with and I think the world of him. There’s a link through that.

"It’s like Steve Bruce, fantastic bloke and a great manager and I know him a little bit personally, so it’s more easy going.

"I remember with Steve, we sat in my office before we played Hull in the Premier League watching a game.

"If you don’t know them and you said ‘do you want to come in and watch a game?’, I think that would be weird.

"The weirdness about it is that people say ‘you shouldn’t be doing that’. Why? What do they think is going to happen?

"I’m not giving away any of my secrets and he’s (Hodgson) not giving any away. He was telling me about some stories from the past and the way the game has changed and I was listening and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

"There’s a lot of managers now who get questioned, Roy has had it in his past, but it’s impossible to have anything but respect for a person like that in my opinion. The years in service, the levels he’s worked at, Inter, the England manager, why would you not listen?"