Town boss Mick McCarthy says the “derogatory” post-match comments made by some opposition managers this season has made taking points off them all the sweeter. A number of managers have complained about the Blues’ approach having seen their teams drop points to McCarthy's fourth-placed side this season.

Former Fulham and Wigan bosses Felix Magath and Uwe Rosler complained that their sides had been roughed up after being defeated by the Blues, while Watford manager Slavisa Jokanovic claimed that Town were “more physical” than his side - despite Jonny Williams having limped off following a dreadful Joel Ekstrand challenge - and that his team weren’t as adept as the Blues at their “direct game, with many long balls”.

Last week, Cherries manager Howe said he felt Town had “come away with something from a game when perhaps they didn’t deserve to” and claimed his side should have been awarded a second-half penalty.

“It makes it all the sweeter when we piss the opposition manager off, it’s great!” McCarthy said.

“There are some of them think they’re a little bit above us. They maybe are better footballers and stroke it about a bit more and it really irks them when the two comprehensive lads come and rough a few schoolboys up. They don’t like it, do they?

“It just gives me greater satisfaction when we do it and even better satisfaction when they whinge about it.

“And it wasn’t a penalty. As I said to them in their room, while I’ve got a hole in my backside it wasn't a penalty.

“He said ‘In your opinion’ and I said that’s the f------ opinion I’m giving, nobody else’s. I’ve not asked anybody else.

“What do they think they’re going to do? Do they think teams are just going to think ‘Let’s just have a nice, pretty game of football and the best team wins’? It doesn’t work that way.”

He added: “I think there are a few clubs that look down their noses at us and think they’re better than us and then they get slapped or we take something off them. And I think it’s derogatory sometimes, the way they do it.

“It really does irk them when you take points off them, especially when they think they’re better than you, which is better still.”

Regarding today’s opponents Charlton, he says they’re a similar side to Town: “I think they’re a really solid, well-organised unit. We could be talking about us.

“Are they as expansive as Derby or Bournemouth, who I heaped praise upon and yet we still managed to get derogatory comments made about us, which surprises me.

“I don’t think that’s what they are. I think they’re more like us, they’re tough and hard to beat and hard to play against with quality players within that unit.

“But they’re a solid Championship team. That’s nothing to be sneered at that because a solid Championship team, Burnley, got promoted last year with a couple of really good strikers [Danny Ings and Sam Vokes], that were the top strikers.

“But let me tell you, everything else behind that was really disciplined, hard-working, get back in, 4-4-2, make yourselves hard to beat, then you’ve got two strikers.

“I think Charlton are in a similar vein to that as we are and a few others that are doing OK.”

He believes the Addicks are genuine play-off contenders, just like the Blues and plenty of others.

“I think we all are after the games we’ve played,” he continued. “When we’ve got to this stage, who knows what will happen in terms of injuries, suspensions and whatever else, people buying or selling in the transfer market over the new year.

“But I think when you’ve played as many games as we have and we’re in there, we’ve got to be. I think all the top 12 teams are play-off candidates.

“You lose two games and you could be 12th. You win two games and you could be in the top six.”

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trncbluearmy added 06:41 - Nov 29 Absolute classic interview Get into em and feck em up Incidentally none of the teams mentioned have ever played football like some of the the old Town teams, but that was then and this is now THIS TOWN ARE GOING UP
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stevelincsexile added 06:50 - Nov 29 Priceless MM priceless we love you.
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Tufty added 06:51 - Nov 29 Dont you just love this guy GO GET EM BIG MICK
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Flewitt85 added 06:53 - Nov 29 2-1 the town! Murphy, Mcgoldrick COYB!!
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essexboy added 07:14 - Nov 29 Best comments I've read in years.What a manager.Well said Mick.
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essextractorboy93 added 07:22 - Nov 29 Buzzing for the game today! Should be a cracking atmosphere! COYB!
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Bluebert added 07:28 - Nov 29 Somebody give this man a knighthood and a statue
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Suffolk_n_Good added 07:32 - Nov 29 Absolute quality!! I read this whole piece with my smile getting wider & wider with every word!! This "us against the world" attitude from MM is galvanising the team, the squad, the fans, & the whole damn club!!! LOVE IT!! BLUE ARMY!!!!!
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jabberjackson added 08:12 - Nov 29 I like this siege mentality - it is deliberate and considered It has a touch of the Alex Ferguson about it - someone who got better and better as a manager I rather fancy Mick will too, and I just hope that Ipswich will be the beneficiary of this for a long time to come
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jabberjackson added 08:15 - Nov 29 P.s . He clearly thinks Eddie Howe is a patronising supercilious ponce A view which, funnily enough, I share
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warktheline added 08:22 - Nov 29 Nice to have the big fella at the helm. Some clubs in this division really think they're big time Charlie's, it's bloody laughable. The last time I checked there was no set rules about style of play in football. Maybe the likes of Rosler, when he gets another opportunity to manage, will look this up! Some like it both ways, when they win playing nice football all is grand, but when they grind out a draw somewhere they brag about discipline and alike.Some of these mangers are just trying to cover up there own shortcomings.fulham and Wigan have already changed managers, and the ex Chelsea boy at Watford looks uncomfortable, hardly surprising when the game is driven by results on the pitch. COYB, let's keep upsetting um.

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BlueandTruesince82 added 08:27 - Nov 29 Nobody likes us and we don't care! It would be easier take from Eddie Howe but he was a 3rd rate footballer! Good young manager, massively average player. lets go piss of Charlton
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BlueandTruesince82 added 08:30 - Nov 29 They dont like it up em Mr McCarthy they dont like it up em intersting that 2 of the whingers have already been sacked
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jas0999 added 08:41 - Nov 29 I don't know why other managers bother, they won't get under Micks skin and there will only be one winner. Even Warnock was sent packing a couple of years ago. Personally, I felt for quite some time we were lacking a bit of aggression in a very strong tough league. Wigan, Watford and Fulham can't really argue about the result. The Bournemouth manager possibly had a point, but that's football. Blackburn were very poor but left PR with a point. Mick didn't whine.

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Fat_Boy_Tim added 08:57 - Nov 29 Fantatstic MM, well said. In truth in the last 14 games I can only really remember us being out played twice and we took 4 points from those games. Our football being ugly, route one, aggressive blah blah blah is a smoke screen, we have scored plenty of class goals, we sit 18th in the discipline table, as in there are 17 teams with a worse record than us including all of Fulham, Wigan and Bournmouth and we must have the most fouled per minute player in the league in Jonniesta.

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yun added 08:57 - Nov 29 You can always rely on a Mick McCarthy press conference to brighten up your day!
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Guthrum added 09:22 - Nov 29 McCarthy talks the talk, but the difference is that he and his team deliver the goods as well.
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Geoff added 10:13 - Nov 29 Well said Mick,heard nothing from our neighbors up the road. If you do just say of there league position ( please mind the gap)
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Warkys_Tash added 10:19 - Nov 29 We are a hard working team, full of tattoos & beards along with a bit of steel. We also play some nice football, hardly dirty though. Eddie Howe should take it gracefully & know that no team ever got promoted from the Champ with steel & guile. Togetherness & work rate that was sorely missing under the last two clowns. Even those simple folk, 50 miles North up the A140, are recogning what a good manager we have and most of them are eating their words after their initial sniggering at MMs appointment

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Kikapu added 10:33 - Nov 29 Not one negative comment! What's wrong with you? (Great to see - well done Mick and the team).
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northernblues added 10:38 - Nov 29 If howe matched last week he would of seen his teams 2 goals were errors by town
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SouperJim added 10:57 - Nov 29 It's the teams that mix it up and do the ugly things as well as the pretty that get out of this division the soonest. Just look at Burley's team and how tough it was for us to get promoted, despite how good a side we were.
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walberswicks added 11:10 - Nov 29 It's all about Mick McCarthy.
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dirtydingusmagee added 11:28 - Nov 29 stick it up em Mick, just tell em straight and the last word is ,,off. COYB
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superkevinwilson added 11:29 - Nov 29 If we are that dirty where are all the red cards
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