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McCarthy: Fans Waited to Throw Bottles at Me at Brentford
Thursday, 6th Sep 2018 09:14

Former Town boss Mick McCarthy has revealed that fans waiting to throw bottles at him led to police advice to leave Griffin Park via a back exit following the Blues’ 1-0 defeat to Brentford in April.

McCarthy, who had already announced he would move on at the end of last season, decided then that the home match against Barnsley on the following Tuesday would be the final game of his five and a half years in charge at Portman Road.

“I got asked to leave via the back door at Brentford because there were people with bottles and beer waiting to throw them at me,” he told the Irish Daily Mail.

“Of course me being me, I said to the police, ‘F*** em, I’m going out the front door’. They said, ‘Well, if you do we might get covered in beer; we might get hit with bottles’.

“I don’t know if there was one person or 20 people or 100. But I had to go out the back door.

"I spoke to [Town owner] Marcus Evans then. Barnsley was always going to be my last game.

“But it would have been nice to go out and say, ‘Thanks for everything, it’s been great’, rather than, ‘Well, what do you think about being booed?’. So I said, 'Thankfully I won’t have to listen to it again', and I did one.’

Asked whether he received hate mail at Town he says his personal assistant dealt with his post and shredded anything abusive.

“Why on earth would I read it?” added McCarthy, who starts a new role working as a pundit for Virgin Media Sport.

Despite the manner in which his time at Town ended, the 59-year-old still wants to go back into management.

“Because we love it,” he said. “I want to do it again. I have no desire to rest on my laurels. That’s what I enjoy doing.

“I have to say I enjoy the combative nature of it. I enjoy the managing of players and solving problems, both on the pitch and off the pitch, dealing with all the things that come with it, and sometimes the s*** and sometimes the glamour of it. I’ve had more of the glamour than the s***, I have to be honest.”


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dirtydingusmagee added 15:41 - Sep 6
this, regardless as to wether true or not is history, why bleat about it now ? just want to be in the spotlight?, the queue of clubs wanting you when you left Town , yer right all in your mind Mick , they would only be in the Jurassic league.
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tractorboybig added 16:22 - Sep 6
if true a sad day for itfc. how deep have we sunk.
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Steelmonkey added 16:39 - Sep 6
The only reason MM is out of management IMO opinion is that everyone in the country knows how well behaved our fans usually are.
If they can see what MM pushed the majority of us to vocally abuse him for and what he turned our team into then that's the only reason he has taken to be a telly pundit and why no one has rushed in to avail themselves of his services.
So for the S**t he had them serve up to us in the name of football, well he can go F**k himself, and I make no apologies for using the same language he has used against the good name of the club and it's fans who want nothing more than success for this club and not the stagnation that he achieved.
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carlisleaway added 17:22 - Sep 6
Oh come on, I stood alongside many fans outside the Fulham ground after the game chatting to Ipswich and Fulham players. Where did this rubbish come, if you think he is telling the truth then you should all go and support Mick wherever he turns up.
I will agree the atmosphere in the ground was toxic but after the game genuine Town fans stood and chatted while the players got onto the coach, if bottles were intended to be thrown then goodness knows where they were coming from.
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happybeingblue added 17:42 - Sep 6
i said when he left he would never get another job at championship level and when sunderland or barnsley didnt want him in lge 1 that said a lot,they probably thought blimey if he has pis..ed itfc fans off that much we will give him a miss,the f..k u on sky didnt help either :) surprised he didnt get hounded out after lincoln whilst he was trying to convince us that different class dougie was the next jim magilton,guess he thought we were that dumb or blind down here that we wouldnt notice :)
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SpiritOfJohn added 18:26 - Sep 6
Telegram for Mr McCarthy: it's over.
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BluePatriot added 18:41 - Sep 6
Right, i went to the Brentford game and the bad feeling and chanting against MM
was disgusting and pathetic. I was embarrassed tbh, all the singing was anti chanting
aimed at MM. I ain't surprised about the result as this did have a negative
Effect on the playerson the day. Anyway this is true seeing as the police
Advised him not to confront the situation. The moron's are a cancer
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coolcat added 18:49 - Sep 6
Well that report doesn't surprise me in the least after the hostility I witnessed after that Brentford game. These people were calling out for Mick as well as individual players & waving money about. I saw TC having to be escorted out by the police. Players had to be guided around the back of the team bus but we never saw Mick

I was with a fellow Ipswich fan, a lady whose son is autistic. Met police officers escorted fans with children away from this crowd so eventually we were standing behind the police.

I go to all games home/away. Judging by what I saw that day these were people who have no consideration or respect for others, never mind Mick or the players. There were familiar faces from the previous season who had caused similar problems after the Brentford away game. They are simply pond life letting themselves & the club down.
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blueboy1981 added 19:03 - Sep 6
.......some people are so lacking in ambition, success, moving forward,etc; and stagnation is all they know, or care for - therefore they will always relate, condone, and support McCarthy whatever he says, or does.
They will even exaggerate in support of him.

Thankfully, not all ITFC fans think that way. Some of us still retain ambition for our Club.

Forget the man - he's gone. And won't get another job as Manager until someone is desperately in need of a few drawn out points to avoid relegation. Maybe not even then.
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BluePatriot added 19:29 - Sep 6
Why don't you blueboy1981
We are stating the facts thats it
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Woodbridgian added 19:30 - Sep 6
Mick McCarthy name rings a bell but can't quitr remember him!
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SickParrot added 19:47 - Sep 6
I think McCarthy is probably exaggerating this story. There is no way that the Police could have known that bottles were to be thrown and I don't believe that they would have been thrown. If the Police did actually say this, it must have been to make sure that there was no confrontation at all between the fans and McCarthy. I am sure that McCarthy would have got some more verbal abuse but so what? This is the same McCarthy who persistently treated fans with contempt and told them to f**k off at Norwich, and who claimed not to be bothered about what fans think or say.
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Talbs77 added 20:13 - Sep 6
I am so tired of the world portraying us as some evil group of supporters who hounded out this wonderful, brilliant manager.

Like to have seen them say that watching what we did for the last 3 years.

Accept there may have been the odd idiot with a beer but a group ready to jump him.....do me a favour.

He needs to move on.....we have.
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wayway added 20:38 - Sep 6
Big queue of clubs waiting to sign him up.
Try the Northern Premier League Boring Billy
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blueboy1981 added 20:53 - Sep 6
....... see - I've proved my point. Confirmed by the down votes from those, as expected.

If you people are waiting to support him at his next Club - you may have a long wait, whomsoever that Club may eventually be will suit you all - as they will have no ambition either, and be as boring as Billy himself.
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blueboy1981 added 20:58 - Sep 6
BluePatriot ........... perhaps you should too, and whilst doing so realise that others state 'facts' too.

Yours smack of a typical McCarthy attitude - 'birds of a feather flock together' ...... maybe ??
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Northstandveteran added 21:23 - Sep 6
Mick stout!
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BluePatriot added 22:34 - Sep 6
Blueboy blah blah
I say respect the manager whoever he is
So, what about Hurst..... how long will you be
civilised to him before you start the booing hating ??
Just asking!
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Bert added 23:59 - Sep 6
This story is of no relevance any more. Let's not allow the respective MM camps to resemble what the two main political parties look like right now - divided. We are better than that. Time to forget,forgive and move on.
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Gcon added 06:44 - Sep 7
Blueboy getting all aggressive with somebody about needing to 'state facts' but posting based on 'IF this is true, which I seriously doubt'. Same old hypocritical tosh.....
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Gcon added 06:46 - Sep 7
'We've all moved on' - Then posting about 10 comments proving he really hasn't....
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kpblues added 07:38 - Sep 7
This story is nonsense and sounds to me like a case of police over reaction and Mick taking yet another opportunity to have a go at our fans.
There were chants of 'MIck Mccarthy get out of our club' by a lot of supporters and gesticulations but there was never any threat of violence as Brentford is always a fun day so the mood is always light hearted.

So good to be in the new era.
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Cheshire_Blue added 09:01 - Sep 7
'A group of about 6 kids' sums up TWTD, doesn't it.
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bugledog123 added 09:18 - Sep 7
Total fantasy Mick
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shortmarine1969 added 09:41 - Sep 7
All you hand wringing wet git,s need to get real with your comments about disgusting fans .!! this is pure conjecture and nothing else.

No bottles were thrown and this or any other game thats fact.! The assumption that they were about to be is pure rubbish - did the so called bottle throwing fans warn plod off that they were about to assault a manager..!!.. absolute rubbish , the police massively over police our derby game and we all know it , and now "according to MM ITFC now lay in wait to get him..pure fantasy again..it has never happened and doubt it ever will..MM is well gone lets forget the bloke as his last 2 seasons were utter dross and he showed no affinity or respect to the fans , so here deserves none.
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