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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BlueBlood90 added 10:28 - Sep 7 So basically you have no idea what happened and you want the world to feel like you were cruelly treated here (you wasn't). Also, don't give it the big one and then do something else. ‘F*** em, I'm going out the front door'. “I don't know if there was one person or 20 people or 100. But I had to go out the back door."
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littlestoneblue added 10:45 - Sep 7

Now lets get this into perspective, if MM had been a Millwall manager with his dour Ipswich record, then the Millwall fans would have had Mick long before his nearing last game at Brentford, Ipswich Town Supporters have a national degree of being the best behaved supporters throughout Europe, so to say we were lined up to assault him with bottles etc is an absolute Lie, we might have been peeded off with his tactics for over 5 years, but violence towards him NOPE never, abuse yes

dirtydingusmagee added 13:42 - Sep 7 why dont you just admit it Mick ...........you bottled it .
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dukey44 added 22:52 - Sep 7 Can't understand why they would want to do that to mick?? As if Ipswich fans would want to waste their money on a bottle if bear to throw at him?? Mick you were tosh now just stop this slander as no one cares!!
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dirtydingusmagee added 12:39 - Sep 8 Cheshire , sorry i marked you up by mistake lol,if thats your opinion of twtd why bother to use the site ? it is optional .
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