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Dyche Baffled by Everton’s Lack of Penalties

Football - FA Cup - Third Round - Crystal Palace v Everton - Selhurst Park, London, Britain - January 4, 2024 Everton manager Sean Dyche before the match. (Reuters)
Football - FA Cup - Third Round - Crystal Palace v Everton - Selhurst Park, London, Britain - January 4, 2024 Everton manager Sean Dyche before the match. (Reuters)
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Dyche Baffled by Everton’s Lack of Penalties

Football - FA Cup - Third Round - Crystal Palace v Everton - Selhurst Park, London, Britain - January 4, 2024 Everton manager Sean Dyche before the match. (Reuters)
Football - FA Cup - Third Round - Crystal Palace v Everton - Selhurst Park, London, Britain - January 4, 2024 Everton manager Sean Dyche before the match. (Reuters)

Everton manager Sean Dyche said it is "peculiar" that his club have reached the halfway point in the season without being awarded a penalty in the Premier League.

The only side in the 20-team English topflight not to have been given a spot kick, Everton, alongside Brighton & Hove Albion, Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers, have also conceded the most penalties (five) this season.

"If you get to this stage of a season and you've not had a penalty, that's peculiar," Dyche told reporters ahead of Everton's game against Aston Villa.

"It is quite alarming when you see how many penalties are given for tiny touches which we can't work out sometimes. Some people see it as the 'modern game', but I find it alarming how many penalties are given for almost nothing.

"If that is the rule across the board then it goes against the stats that we haven't had a penalty. We will have to see if it balances up in the second half of the season."

Everton, who became the first Premier League club to be deducted points for breaching financial sustainability rules in November, are 17th in the league with 16 points from 20 matches. They host second-placed Villa at Goodison Park on Sunday.

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Triumphant Australian Team Return Home with Record Gold Medal Haul 

Gold medalists Australia's Matt Wearn (C) and Kaylee McKeown wave as they disembark from a chartered flight along with other athletes upon arrival at Sydney International Airport on August 14, 2024. (AFP)
Gold medalists Australia's Matt Wearn (C) and Kaylee McKeown wave as they disembark from a chartered flight along with other athletes upon arrival at Sydney International Airport on August 14, 2024. (AFP)
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Triumphant Australian Team Return Home with Record Gold Medal Haul 

Gold medalists Australia's Matt Wearn (C) and Kaylee McKeown wave as they disembark from a chartered flight along with other athletes upon arrival at Sydney International Airport on August 14, 2024. (AFP)
Gold medalists Australia's Matt Wearn (C) and Kaylee McKeown wave as they disembark from a chartered flight along with other athletes upon arrival at Sydney International Airport on August 14, 2024. (AFP)

Australia's Olympic team, including gold medalists Jessica Fox, Kaylee McKeown and Ariarne Titmus, arrived back in Sydney on Wednesday to a rapturous welcome from friends, family and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Australia finished fourth on the Paris medals table ahead of long-time sporting rival Britain and hosts France after winning 18 golds, including four in one day last week.

Australia's previous best came at the last Olympics in Tokyo and in Athens 2004 when the team won 17 gold medals.

Australian athletes also claimed 19 silver and 16 bronze medals to deliver their best performance at an overseas Games.

Hundreds gathered at the hangar in Sydney airport to cheer as the athletes, medals hanging about their necks, came down the steps of the Qantas jet which had brought them home.

"You know it’s pretty cool being welcomed home," said swimmer McKeown, who won two golds in Paris.

"It’s better than just getting off a plane and going straight to your car. It’s so nice to see all the support for us Aussies and the success that we have had."

Gold medal-winning sailor Matt Wearn, who successfully defended his men's dinghy title in Paris, was first off the plane and was greeted at the bottom of the steps by Albanese.

"We want you to know that what you have done is inspire us, is give us joy, give us excitement, and lifted up our whole nation due to your performance," Albanese said.

When Australia broke its gold medal record last week the news was splashed across the front pages of the papers and trumpeted across TV networks in the sports-mad nation.

Australians will be hoping for even greater success in 2032 when Brisbane hosts the Olympics. Australia won 16 golds in Sydney and 13 in Melbourne when the country previously hosted the Summer Games in 2000 and 1956.