Burnley boss Sean Dyche has no intention of matching Roy Hodgson's longevity in football management!

The Crystal Palace boss is approaching 45 years in the role having taken on the job at Halmstad when Dyche was just starting out at school.

During that time the 73-year-old has clocked up more than 1,000 games when combining international and domestic tenures.

And that puts Hodgson in the top 50 managers with most games on their CV in world football. He's one of just 20 Englishmen.

The Burnley boss said: “I always felt when I started off – and I'm in year 10 or approaching it, one or the other – that managers who get to 500 games have pretty much had a full career.

“I felt that when I was a player. I had three seasons out of my career with injury, which cost me around 100 games, but I still got around that 500 mark in a 20-year career.

“It's the same in management. If you can hit around the 500 mark, at any level, you've had a pretty good go at it. It's not easy, management, at any level.

“So when you're talking about these people who've done 1,000-plus games – look at someone like Neil Warnock.

“If you added his non-league games, you might be looking at 1,700 or 1,800 games, who knows?

“Steve Bruce is approaching 1,000 games, some heroes of the game, Denis Smith over 1,000 games, Lennie Lawrence. These people have been in the game for an eternity."

There is only one other European manager, who features on the aforementioned list, that has been active beyond 73 and only two more that have matched Hodgson's years.

Bill Struth, who won 30 major trophies at Rangers between 1920 and 1954, was 78 when he finally retired.

Meanwhile, former Lokomotiv Moscow coach Yuri Semin was 73 when released by the Russian club at the end of last season as was Jupp Heynckes when stepping down from his position with Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich in 2018.

Dyche, however, won't be threatening any of those records. “I think it's changing, I think it's more difficult now," he said.

"Some of the younger guys like Chris Wilder – if you add his non-league games as well as his league games, you're approaching big numbers.

“Danny Wilson is another one with big numbers, these guys have been around the game a long time.

“I headed out to it thinking – well I was coaching first of all, I enjoyed that – but when I became a manager, I thought if I can get to 500 games, that's a pretty good marker.

“Anything beyond that, let's see. I'm not there now, but I've got quite a lot of games (424) in a relatively short space of time, because you play fewer games in the Premier League than other divisions."

Hodgson has done it all. The ex-England manager has coached in Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Norway and, of course, on these shores.

He guided the Swiss national team to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup and later secured their passage to Euro '96.

The 2010 LMA Manager of the Year has led Finland, the UAE, Inter Milan, Fulham and Liverpool and is now in his fourth season at Selhurst Park.

“So going back to Roy, it's unfathomable really, that many different challenges, that many different places, different languages he knows, cultures he knows, and still out there doing it," said Dyche.

“I certainly won't be at his age, I can't see that. I've got no intention of it. That era of manager, they just keep going and going.

“The modern manager, there are different stresses and strains now, the short-term demand has changed, so they [older managers] share that with us younger guys in the game.

“So I'd be very surprised if I'm still knocking around – as a manager, that is. I might be around football in some form, of course, but as a hands-on manager, [you have to give] tremendous credit to have the thirst and desire to keep on doing that.

“I don't know. I might be here one day and you'll say 'you said you'd never do that' so who knows?

“Has Roy just turned 73 or is he approaching 73? Incredible."

Dyche, 49, said as much to former West Ham United boss Manuel Pellegrini at the London Stadium in 2018.

The two shared a joke ahead of kick-off in a game the Hammers won 4-2 in the Premier League.

Dyche said: “I did say, just as an aside, when Pellegrini moved to West Ham and we played them, he was 65 and I said 'you won't see me as a football manager at 65'.

“It was that Steve Redgrave moment, you know 'If you see me in a boat again, shoot me' and then we played them that week.

“I saw him and he said 'what do you mean Shaun, I'm a young man?' and I said 'Absolutely, but I won't be doing what you're doing at your age, trust me' and he just started laughing.”