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7 football stars who have pubs renamed after them including Shearer's Bar and Royal Dyche

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Daily Star Sport has taken a look at seven footballers and managers who have achieved true greatness with the ultimate tribute from their supporters.The former Burnley manager may have been dismissed from Turf Moor earlier this year as the club owners made a desperate yet doomed bid to prevent the Clarets relegation.

However, Dyche's achievements in a decade at the club have clearly not been forgotten.The owners of the Royal Dyche pub - previously known as The Princess Royal - have decided to stick with their name in tribute to their former manager.

Dyche secured two Premier League promotions during his time in the hot seat, as well as leading Burnley to European football via the Europa League qualifying rounds in 2018.Edwards was regarded as one of the leading members of Manchester United's Busby Babes, and was tragically one of 23 people to die in the Munich Air Disaster in 1958.

Club legend and World Cup winner Sir Bobby Charlton described his former team-mate as "the only player that made me feel inferior".A number of tributes has been paid to Edwards in his hometown of Dudley, and one of these was the pub formerly known as The Wren's Nest.

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