As a follow-up to Burnley's historic win at Anfield, Sean Dyche couldn't do better than becoming the first English manager since Harry Redknapp to win a major trophy.
While Pep Guardiola rates Brighton's Graham Potter as the finest English manager of his generation, Dyche's reputation was further enhanced when his budget team ended Liverpool's unbeaten home run dating back four years.
There is something of a revival in homegrown managers with nine of the 20 Premier League clubs run by Englishmen. But a credibility gap will continue until one lands their hands on silverware – Redknapp being the last when Portsmouth won the FA Cup in 2008.