THE spotlight of life in the Premier League manifested itself in an unusual way for Clarets boss Sean Dyche this week – when he became a victim of impressionists.

Self-styled football impressionist Darren Farley turned his hand to Dyche having previously done skits of the great and good of the football world.

Farley is perhaps best known for his impression of Brendan Rodgers and Liverpool players, and when Dyche found out he had now tried to mimic him, the Burnley boss was delighted.

“I’ve been waiting for that,” he said. “I’ve seen the fella who does Brendan, it’s brilliant. Is he doing me? Get in there!

“I’ve seen the Harry one, that’s brilliant, it’s the mannerisms, it’s hilarious.”

Becoming a target for impressionists is the latest sign of life in the big league for Dyche.

In September he was snapped on a mobile phone travelling on the London Underground, and admitted: “There is a big profile difference now”.

When he took over at Burnley in October 2012 he would have been unrecognisable to commuters and caricaturists alike.

Now he is fair game.

Farley’s YouTube videos have had more than 20 million hits online and he has appeared on shows such as Soccer AM, Football Focus, Match of the Day and a Question of Sport.

His impression of Dyche is close to 50,000 views, but has received mixed feedback.

The Burnley boss revealed he is yet to watch Farley’s attempt at parodying him, but thinks he is a difficult man to get right for an impressionist.

“I’m interested to know, because I don’t think I’ve got that many quirks, but obviously I’m going to soon find out.

“I’ve got a few catchphrases and a few slogans.

“I think I’m hard to do.

“I worked with Brendan and he’s got a million little movements and things like that, but I don’t think I’ve got that many.”

Dyche’s most memorable feature to many might be his unique voice, but he believes it is difficult to do for anyone but himself.

“You can’t get the voice,” he said.

“That’s real. I can’t even repeat my own voice, let alone someone else do it.”

The Burnley boss avoided the banter of one of his former Chesterfield teammates, who could mimic several members of the Spireites squad but struggled to get the no-nonsense centre-half right.

And he’s not aware of any of his squad at Turf Moor sending him up, although he admits they could well be doing so behind his back.

“Not to my face,” he joked when asked about his squad doing impressions of him.

“I’m probably not the man that you really want to impersonate to my face, or certainly not in the way they would.

“There was a lad I played with at Chesterfield called Tony Brien.

“He was the best I’ve ever seen at impressions of other players and he once said to me ‘I can’t get you, I just can’t do it, because you never have real mannerisms that are constant, there is always something different’.

“He had about five of the players off to an absolute tee.

“That’s always stuck in my mind that I can’t be that easy to do.”