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McCarthy Turned Down Forest Interview
Friday, 5th May 2017 18:11

Town boss Mick McCarthy has revealed that he turned down the chance to be interviewed for the manager's job with Sunday's final-day opponents Nottingham Forest in the summer prior to taking charge at Portman Road in November 2012.

“I had a phone call and they asked me if I’d go and have an interview and I said no,” McCarthy recalled.

“Well, I said I would and then I said no, I wasn’t going for an interview because it said in the paper then on Saturday morning while I was in Portugal that Mick McCarthy is in Portugal and he’d coming for an interview on Monday, so I said ‘No I’m not’.

“I wasn’t offered the job, I was asked to go for an interview. I don’t want the world to know I’ve been for an interview, that’s a great recipe for success that, isn’t it? Everybody [told] you’ve been to an interview and then they say ‘No, we’ve turned Mick McCarthy down’. That’s a good one isn’t it?

“That’s kudos for them, you know, somebody who has won the Championship twice, we’ve turned him down. I don’t give people the chance to do that. Maybe they wouldn’t but they don’t get the chance.”


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cat added 08:31 - May 7
A-kip 'zzzz' 73 & Co I will look forward to your very humorous and content laden posts with very great interest from now on, even your avatars laughing at ya fella!!!! (Lol)
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leahcar88 added 08:49 - May 7
Mickzzz i do read most your posts. To. Claim your more intelligent or to say getting involved in a words bash is below you you. Well to me that shows immaturity, contradictory and extreme levels of mickism
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blueboy1981 added 11:08 - May 7
........ probably the most self righteous person ever to be on the payroll of ITFC. Can't think of anyone who comes near over the last half century.
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MicksZzzTactics added 14:47 - May 7
@leahcar88

I would much have preferred to continue to not having to "succumb" to respond to any more smearing posts on this particular subject on this here thread .... however imho you @leahcar88 seemingly deliberately chose your closing adjectives + ism not only very poorly from their officially common use & meaning in English pov ! but also to be overly overly personally insulting! ... Alas so here we go with my reply ... and sorry :-) cause even this it a bit long I'm afraid! but that's basically because -- AND PAY ATTENTION NOW EVERYONE WHO HATES THE LENGTH (OR "HAVEN'T THE TIME" I.E. A FEW MINUTES!) OF A FEW TOO MANY OF MY POSTS :-) -- fundamentally it's vastly a so called "work related injury" :-) lol whereby I initially in most instances not only personally prefer but in my particular line of work often is directly 'FORCED TO'! to be very detailed & and pay attention to every pivotal appearing detail simply IN ORDER to in most cases avoid having to waste not only my own but potentially others' good & valuable time, to either needlessly clear up in the 1st place avoidable misunderstandings, or simply basically repeat myself or else repeatedly elaborate further in several extending forms of correspondence (or meetings) on the exact very same subject!

@leahcar88 Please read the 2nd paragraph of my previous post again! Aye unfortunately it is missing a "n" at the very beginning i.e. should have said "In general" and not "I general", where I just happen to point out that: "In general" meaning in the vast majority of cases it is indeed beneath me to go into an old-fashioned hyper antagonistic 'mud-throwing contest' (or "Word-Bash" as you called it but which it really wasn't imo! as additionally different is the fact that I clearly opted to reply & defend myself in a fairly uncharacteristic for any such type of BASHING with my trademark-like fairly humorous & ironic approach! THIS here reply to your is however a true "word-bash"! or a battle over words, and in which instance you can properly use them and in which instance you imo certainly cannot!)

But to every rule not governed by science there is as always a couple of exception isn't there now? ... or to put it another way: SOMETIMES you simply just have to 'Draw a line in the sand' so to speak -- and this principle which btw also governs even the most ultra tolerant and or otherwise exceptionally withstanding of abuse, scorn etc. "appearing" person I've ever met in my life -- and to me this was just one of those occasions as the by now infamous "Have you ever seen a match at PR?" is just about the most stupid thing -- by a country mile! -- I've EVER heard one longtime ITFC fan **unsarcastically** say to another longtime ITFC!!!
And additionally there were that at the very end of that post also that little 'Lt. Columbo observation' of mine regarding my posts in general which I also simply felt needed to be pointed out). So while I don't know you personally I humbly suggest you @leahcr88 'Get of your high horse'! as I'm 99% certain that there even is certain things one cannot throw at one with such truly commendable High Morale standards as you.... without you on a few rare occasions (if at no other time then on say a proverbial "Bad Day") feel that said person shouldn't be allowed to 'get away' without any form of you "defending yourself", be that a reply or some other form of counter-action!

But my suddenly most importantly 'beef' with you personally is the following:
Please don't "confuse" the 'God given Right' (figure of speech as obviously it also applies to those who don't believe in such an entity, like myself! lol) for any person to basically DEFEND THEMSELVES ... with pathetic & mental disorder driven "Mickism"???!!!
That's not only an incredibly daft misconception + incredibly offensive! i.e. especially to a from 'Day 1' Anti-MM'er who in principal has extremely little in common with the D.O.G. suffering, chronically deluded & foulmouthed and just otherwise inherently obnoxious Mr. McCarthy, but overall simply is a totally uncalled for comparison!!! Period!!!

Additionally while my grammar might be poorish my vocabulary isn't! So additionally please also don't "confuse" this very same right to DEFEND ONESELF as something being in any way or form "immature" or an act of "immaturity"???!!! It might, repeat might, be appearing as being PRIMITIVE to some spectators or being carried out in such a fashion that it cannot be appropriately labeled as anything but adhering to the literal true concept of PRIVITISM... However defending yourself can never be said as being something that is profound "immature" nor can any individual's incentives or reasons for defending themselves be said as being "immature". You and others might disagree with the validity or quality of said incentives or reasons but there are entirely different words to properly describe this as well!

You also seems to more or less DELIBERATELY having chosen to confuse & misinterpret what is being inferred 'between the lines' here! Example: To in anyway imply that someone else have just uttered something excruciatingly unintelligent (like the aforementioned "have you ever been to PR?" for instance) or simply in general strongly 'appears' to be severely unintelligent -- as I did do 'between the lines'-- is absolutely not only not 'the same' but in actuality quite far from in a classic or literal sense as to be loudly boasting & bragging about one's **OWN** intelligence .... which I certainly didn't do!
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MicksZzzTactics added 15:01 - May 7
Arrgh! Another little crucial semi-rushed typo, sorry! Should obviously be PRIMITIVISM and not the garbled-looking PRIVITISM?! :-)

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leahcar88 added 12:33 - May 8
Joker
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leahcar88 added 12:42 - May 8
It's because your the doing the same as him.
Anyway this is silly. Go write a book about how and why you defending yourself and MM defending himself is so different. For the record I think MM should've been removed from the club months ago.
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