Town boss Mick McCarthy says he’s not looking for the FA to take any retrospective action against Sheffield Wednesday skipper Glenn Loovens for the horror challenge which will see David McGoldrick sidelined for a month.

Loovens caught McGoldrick in the groin with a high, studs-up boot in the fourth minute of Wednesday’s 2-2 draw at Portman Road causing a four-inch gash but wasn’t shown a card of either colour by referee Keith Stroud.

The official saw the foul but with Town still in possession waved play on and once the ball had gone out merely spoke to the 34-year-old Dutchman.

“I haven’t spoken to him today, I spoke to him yesterday prior to him having his operation,” McCarthy said of McGoldrick. “He’s had the wound cleaned and stitched up and he’s probably going to be out for a month.”

Given the extent of the injury it was remarkable that McGoldrick was able to continue playing for the rest of the half before being replaced at the break.

“He was being very diligent, doing his job,” the Blues manager reflected. “If he hadn’t have been I’d have taken him off.

“But it’s amazing, the adrenaline, once you get going you can keep going. It’s when you sit down at half-time if you’ve had a bump or a bang or a cut, which he’d got, and it starts to stiffen up.

“He tried to come out for the second half and you’d have seen at half-time if you were there, he couldn’t carry on then.”

Despite feeling Loovens should have been red-carded, McCarthy isn’t after post-match disciplinary action from the FA.

“The rules are it’s been accepted,” he added. “The referee didn’t do anything about it. And it wasn’t an elbow, it wasn’t a violent stamp, it wasn’t anything like that. Glenn Loovens tried to go in for the ball, he was too slow, he missed it and he caught Didzy. I’ve no problem with that at all because that is the game.

“I’m not looking for retrospective punishment, absolutely not, but it should have been dealt with on the day. But it wasn’t.”

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OwainG1992 added 13:54 - Nov 24 Fair enough makes no difference now. But I want the officials to see some kind of punishment for the shocking officiating.
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meekreech added 13:57 - Nov 24 Should be dealt with now and he has to be banned! If you or me had done that outside we would be arrested and charged with gbh .
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JamesBlue91 added 14:34 - Nov 24 If we still had Jim Magilton in charge we would have been in a very different position to what we are now. With Jim Magilton I think we would have been comfortably in the Premier League by now. He was bringing in top players who could actually get the job done like Jon Stead, Giovani Dos Santos and Ivan Campo just to name a few. Why the fans were demanding him to be sacked I will never know. The season before he was sacked we finished 7th, then we beat Norwich (which we haven't done since I'll add) and then he was sacked. He was a good manager who was passionate about Ipswich and got the best out of the players.

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Karlosfandangal added 14:45 - Nov 24 Stead and Campo really were not that good, Dos Santos was a different class and someone Ipswich could not afford at the time as Tottenham wanted silly money if my memory serves me correct. Jim was a great player, Play off hat trick was just class.
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Wickets added 14:52 - Nov 24 Compo!!!!! your just having a laugh.
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Wickets added 14:52 - Nov 24 Compo!!!!! your just having a laugh.
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vanmunt added 14:53 - Nov 24 There were a lot of rumors at the time Jim was a bit 'punchy' and he only played his golf buddies if memory serves me right. Not dismissing that things haven't been very good since he left though.
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JamesBlue91 added 14:54 - Nov 24 Ever since Jim Magilton left we have gone from a team chasing promotion to a team either in a relegation battle or mid to bottom of the table. You lot were stupid to protest against him. Times were a lot better and more enjoyable under Jim Magilton. To prove Jim Magilton got the best out of players we signed Jon Walters from Chester City and look where he is today. Like I say with Jim Magilton we would have been comfortably in the Premier League by now.

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Cotton_eyed_joe added 15:00 - Nov 24 looks like someone has been on the Christmas sherry a bit early this year ^^^^^^^^
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ipswich4life added 15:01 - Nov 24 Jamesblue91 So your saying we should be careful what we wish for?
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JamesBlue91 added 15:02 - Nov 24 Pretty much because its all gone down hill since
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JamesBlue91 added 15:36 - Nov 24 in 2006/07 we finished 14th. in 2007/08 we finished 7th. in 2008/09 we finished 9th. even in Jim's first season we weren't in a relegation battle
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bluetit added 17:05 - Nov 24 I think we should be putting a case forward, the challenge was horrendous and we have a player who has had to have surgery because of it. JamesBlue91 - I agree that Magilton was passionate about Ipswich, sometimes too passionate (Sleeping with a certain LB misses) But I think one thing Mick is excellent at is recruiting good players at a low price, his recruitment cannot be questioned in majority of cases.

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Beattie2 added 17:36 - Nov 24 I can't believe MM comment on that tackle, it was deliberate to take him out of the game. The ball was a few inches of the ground and his foot started in his stomach and came down in his groin. It was one of the worst tackles l have ever seen on a football pitch. It seems strange the player or manager from Sheffield Wednesday have not made an apology.
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sereneblue added 17:40 - Nov 24 Good to see you've got your players interest at heart. Muppet.
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Dissboyitfc added 18:48 - Nov 24 I am all for guilty players being punished after games have finished, disgusting tackle that has taken someone out of the game and sidelined them for a month. I think the punishment should be, Loovens is banned until Didz is back and fit.
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Seasider added 19:12 - Nov 24 Dont agree with Mick on this one. He is so bolshie sometimes, and yet he doesn't seem too bothered about this dreadful tackle on one of his players which has put him out of the game for a month at least. Thought Wednesday were a dirty team,as well as playing tippy tappy footie.Ipswich are less cultured in that respect;but because of who our Manager is we are labelled as agricultural. Admit our football is a bit iffy at times as possession stats confirm but I don't think we are a dirty side.Last really bad tackle was by Luke Hyam.Not sure whether the player whos leg he broke ever got back playing;but some would say justice has been done because Luke has hardly kicked a ball since.Think he was punished retrospectively

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TractorBeezer added 19:13 - Nov 24 It was very bad tackle If you can call it that. MM is perhaps thinking that suspension would prevent Loovens playing against our main competitors.
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Nthsuffolkblue added 21:57 - Nov 24 I think the point is the game has gone and the injury has happened. What MM says about it now is not going to make any difference. The referee saw the foul and decided it was not a card offence so it will not be reviewed anyway. It was a shocking challenge and the player should be facing a long ban. The FA need to be able to review things whether the referee "saw" them or not. It will not improve our lot to have the thug out of Wednesday's games against our rivals. Hopefully referees will have seen it, taken note and be far more likely to give him opening minute straight reds in the future. Stroud's penalty call was a shocking decision too. Should have been a different game but it has gone now. A bit left field talking about Magilton. A very talented player but never a leader as captain or manager. There is a good reason his career went where it did after leaving us.

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DarkHorse added 22:14 - Nov 24 "It's when you sit down at half-time... and it starts to stiffen up". Surprised it still could after that.
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