"Pissed as a pickle" - Wonderful from Big Mick

Micks right it’s done and dusted forget it.

It's a shame that Micks contribution to the cause of Ireland in most people's eyes is the whole Saipan escapade. Mick is a decent guy and a hardworking pro. a good servant to Ireland.

Did a good job at Ipswich on a shoestring.

Fair play to Mick for not commenting on this old story. Mick has proud Irish heritage and the majority of Irish fans would appreciate what he has done for us. I am also a massive Roy fan.

By all accounts, Mick is one of the most straight, honest and honourable people in football. It’s a shame he always has to comment on the poor behaviour of others.

Good old fashioned man's man . Well done mick. Always admired how he carried himself

Mick. Man of honour. Nice one

God bless big mick 🍀 hail hail

Mick is well liked and respected deserves to be

Mick McCarthy is right, it is the epitome of lazy journalism to keep asking him about the same incidents that have been discussed to death year after year, decade after decade. Mick McCarthy is a great manager with a long and varied career. He's managed lower league clubs to Premier league promotion, he's managed Premier league clubs, he's managed abroad and he's managed international teams to qualify for and play in major tournaments. Mick McCarthy deserves more respect.

Well said Mick, you can love both

Sometimes it work out, sometimes it doesn't. You really can't put it any simpler than that.

Fucking hell still going on about it in all fairness Mccarthy was a quality manager for Ireland and Ireland did well at that world Cup without keane

Mick McCarthy was captain of an Irish team that got to the last 8 of a World Cup. Think about that. Coz it'll probably never happen again. Hope I'm wrong but let's be realistic. After being captain he rebuilt an aging team and got us to 2 playoffs and last 16 of World Cup (without our captain and best player BTW). With a bit more luck against Belgium and Turkey we'd have been at France 98 and Euro 2000. I'm from Cork and a United fan. Roy was my hero growing up. But I think its time we put Saipan to bed and remember Mick for what he did right for Irish football as opposed to constantly throwing Roy's name at him in interviews. Flogging a dead horse. He's plainly sick of it and frankly so am i. Thanks for the memories Mick.

The interviewer tried to ambush Mick by raking up old controversies didn't get a lot of luck

Mick McCarthy was our best ever Manager. We played our best football under him. As a Manager in England he won promotions with no money to buy players, and when Ipswich fired him because he missed promotion, they were relegated the following season. A Class act in both football, and real life. Deserves more respect than this gutter-trash journalism. Thanks Mick, you were there as Captain and Manager in the Glory days of Irish Football. True Irish supporters will always respect you, and thank you for that...and fuck the begrudgers.

Roy Keane, alas, is so rude it's breathtaking. If a player at his beloved Utd had spoken to him like that when he was captain he would have been livid, but it's always right for him to do it. Arrogant man who mistakes aggression for "manliness".

Well done Mick---you did a great job at Sunderland an will always be welcomed back- you always behaved impeccably.

Like Mick I was born in Barnsley with an Irish parent, I saw him make his debut in 1977 when he was 18, even then he was a giant of a man with a moustache that would put Tom Sellick to shame. Watched and loved him as a player, moved to Dublin in 1993 so was lucky enough to watch his side as a manager. Let’s face it no one came out of Saipan smelling of roses least of all the FAI, but Mick is right here in that it should be put to bed, we all know what happened there’s no point to keep going over it. I feel for Mick because it’s tarnished his legacy, he was within a shoot out of making another World Cup quarter final and built a new team from the ashes of Jack’s team and did it playing a good style of football. I hope I’m wrong because I like Stephen Kenny but I fear it’s going to be a good few years before we reach the same level of competing.

Well said Mick.a shame that The players and management hadn't the Guts to sort it out with Mick and Roy.

PATHETIC ATTEMPT AT JOURNALISM. GOOD MAN MICK

it's time people started to respect micks time as player and manager of Éire.

Top Class Mick as always So much respect for him as both a player and manager for Ireland What he may have lacked in ability He more than made up with in heart!!!!

The football supporting public in Ireland are forever indebted to Mick McCarthy. After Jack left Mick started to get the team playing football on the ground. It was a slow process but he was changing things. He got the team to the World Cup in South Korea and Japan. They had a real chance, at the very least, of getting to the semi-final, perhaps even further! Despite the FA lI incompetencies Mick did an immense job. He rebuilt that team, introducing some new young players and adding a different attractive style of playing into the mix. As a lifelong Manchester United (and Roy Keane) supporter I am quite happy to say that Roy Keane messed up that World Cup for Ireland. His inwardly focused self-absorbed conduct messed it up. Magnificent player that he was and magnificent job that he did at Sunderland aside, I’m not surprised that no other club will take a chance on him nowadays.

A class act.

Legend. Millwall Man.

well handled Mick :)

Well done mick. If only all could see the bigger picture and do the best they could in any given situation

Imagine been ask on to TV for an interview and to be shown a video of his ex players talking about an incidence that made Mike look like a fool of sorts is beyond me. What happens on tour should stay on tour. So much gossip!

Mick has always come across to me as a top person. He was a successful coach/manager and carrys himself with dignity and good humour.

The Best football ireland ever played was under Mick Mccarthy. This man deserves so.much respect

Mick's a legend.

No Bull shit with Mick

Fair dues to Mick, he always gave 100%, Keane abandoned us.

Fair comment Mick!

Top man

Mick is an Irish legend

McCarthy really doesn’t like the Keane questions. Yet he keeps getting asked them

Top man Mick, respect all the way , true professional

Old school class

Good on you mick leeds fan to mot legend

Well done Mick. Niall repeating private conversations and doing so at the expense of a former national teammate, decades after. Lounge speaker. Mick, you've carried dignity. Niall, gossip girl 🤣

Keane was a disgrace doing what he did that tournament.

Pissed as a pickle 🤣

Keane was a superb player. Shame he couldn't keep his ego in check.

i agree with a lot of the comments supporting Mick here. A lot of other people tend to be quite sycophantic about Roy Keane, lets be honest, he can be a right arrogant git

Fair play to him.

I liked McCarthy as a player , a manager and now as a decent human.I can never forgive Keano for Saipan and who knows what Ireland could have gone on to do in the World Cup2002 with Keane on board.Its a sad episode in Irish sport and the worst part is not knowing if Ireland could have exceeded their performance of Italia 1990.I believe the odds were with them to do that with Keano in there being his warrior self and being the great general he was at United. I come from the same place in Ireland as Keane ,Cork,and that makes it hurt all the more! As far as I'm concerned McCarthy contributed , in no small way ,to some memorable performances by the Boys in Green. All we can and should say is :"THANKS MICK" PS --The other Keane , Robbie,always gave everything when he put on that green shirt .I played videos of his great international goals during the Covid lockdown here in America and I firmly believe it was that more than the vaccines ,that helped me stay Covid free to this day !!! THANKS ROBBIE !!!🇮🇪💚☘️

Thats not journalism its the drip drip tittle tattle sensationalism.

Keane is just "music hall" flotsam.

Roy Keane struggled when not being coached by Ferguson. He got relegated at Forrest in his last season. Some players were just "Ferguson players."

i didnt know roy had such a good sense of humour

Keane said some time ago that this comeback never happened, and that (if I recall correctly) Tony Cascarino made it up.

Personal issues should be exactly that. Personal.

Roy Keane walked away.

Mick will be the first to admit he was well out of his depth in his first job - Millwall. However he had inherited Millwall's best ever squad & was given a lot of money to spend. The decline was continuous but he survived 4 years until until Jackie Charlton resigned. Mick instantly went public & said he wanted the job. Once Joe Kinnear turned it down, no one else wanted to face the rebuilding process needed at Ireland & Mick had found his escape. As for Millwall, the 5 year aftermath saw relegation, administration & 5 tough years in league 1. We had a Premiership wage bill & league 2 quality squad. Administrators had to work overtime to stop the club being shut down. It would have been a double relegation but league 1 teams gave us too much respect early on.

So it probably wasn't untrue then, Mick? Because by the sounds of it you either don't remember or don't want to remember.

Mick wasn't strong enough to stand up to the FAI in 2002. He and the FAI were culpable for sending officials and hangers on over there in Club Class and living like Kings while the most important people of all, the Irish players were overlooked. Sub standard training facilities a million miles form where the Competition was taking place, was simply unacceptable. Hopefully future Irish teams won't be flown out in economy and fed on cheese sandwiches now as a direct result of Keane holding the full glare of publicity on the FAI and sub-servant managers! In that era Ireland had some amazing quality players, that we simply don't have now. Such a shame that poor management prevented us from finding out just how far we could have gone!!

Respect to Mike ther l

Niall wanting free publicity

Quinn is a disgrace. Hanging out his former captain and manager on a sensitive issue just to get a few cheap laughs. Must have been a tough watch for Mick but as always he handled it well.

quinn two faced

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We are all tired of it move on

I love that Mick McCarthy’s life is based around Roy Keane everywhere He goes it’s all about Roy Keane

Imagine having such poor character as a young man as to show such disrespect to the captain if the national team you had been called into. No wonder he continues to lie about his 'knee injury' to this day.

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McCarthy is a far better man than Keane was or will ever be

Keane and McCarthy are both prickly characters.

People love to bash Mick.took us so far in world cup.All Praise for Stephen Kenny ???

can we please move on.

If Mick dosn want to talk about Roy and that world cup , best not give these type of interviews . I'd be interested in his views on it like looking back would he have done anything different

Does it matter really

It's a strange thing being of Irish decent when your born and raised in 'enemy' territory -

Get over it never known bunch of grown men to waffle about things that happened years ago. Also if it did happen Mick is correct to tell them off.

This is what happens when an English man plaus and managers and different country

Mick and Keane just didn't get along..... Nothing wrong with that but when it's public information and one's the boss of the other and the other (Keane) such a professional , that the FAI had become a single target in Mick with the personality clash adding to the situation that became keano against the rest!!! I believe Mick and Keane are actually very proud, strong willed characters and stand their ground/stubborn therefore easy lickings for the media hence this virgin media numpty trying to get Mick say something negative/dislike about Keane from as far back as 92 to create more drama. Not everyone in a team sport gets along , grow up people

Roy Keane is like a Kevin Petersen....just fucking make it work! Maybe take a course in man-management..... If you are Ireland, leaving out your only world class player...well just start packing your bags

Oh, you remember it well Mick!!!!

How would Niall Quinn know? Maybe be because he knows everyone on the bus and was on the bus himself

The best football we played under Mccarthy was because of Roy he dictated play for ireland and united

Players never respected him as a manager cause he was crap.

an Englishman sending Irelands greatest ever player home..you couldn't write it

Mick McCarthy the bloke whose c v is on the back of a postage stamp.

"Mick the prick" keano keano keano!!!

Horrible bloke … wasted 44 million at wolves and played 6 centre backs in one particular game . Dinosaur

mccarthy an Englishman at heart..basically destroyed Irelands best chance at a world cup

Mick McCarthy terrible human, abysmal manager.

Roy should've Slapped Mick Silly

Sock gap should never be allowed to happen. C’mon production. 🦵

Micks right it’s done and dusted forget it.