You may not think it, but Mick McCarthy was the Tom Cruise of the English Premier League, so much so, we can now confirm the next film he’ll be starring in is Mission Impossible: Wolverhampton Wanderers.
I hated Wolves, I didn’t see a place for them in the Premier League. They were nonchalant and always looking for survival. The football wasn’t attractive, they were dirty and often injured players and ruined other people’s chances. Most of all they were boring.
It wasn’t until I saw a few interviews with the big man that I forgot about Wolves and started to look at the man in charge. Mick McCarthy was an inspiration, a plain faced man that doesn’t take any nonsense from anyone. If he isn’t happy with something he’ll speak his mind. In Mick’s mind I bet he thought he could win the Premiership with those lads and it’s someone with those abilities that Wolves need.
A lack of money, desire and creativity sees Wolves in the bottom quarter of the Premier League table, and after a drubbing by West Brom 5-1 the club have parted ways with their manager.
The thing is, yes you can’t polish a turd and everyone knows that including Mick, but I guarantee his would have been the shiniest. He has brought some names in to the club on loan and then on purchase for next to nothing and he has managed to get the best out of his players whilst leaving them still in the Premier League. I cannot see this happening elsewhere.
I can see where the chairman is coming from after losing 5-1, watching Norwich and Swansea move above them and especially the rise of Sunderland after O’Neill came in. Yet Swansea’s passing game is beginning to show signs of weakness, Martinez’s Wigan side is slipping steadily from the Premier League, Norwich have been a YoYo team that have a good keeper and strikers hitting form, QPR have money to burn and Sunderland have spent millions in the last few years to only be mediocre. Wolves are a fighting team, a team that don’t belong up top because a) they can’t afford to be relegated to rebuild from scratch b) They don’t have the finances to buy the quality they need.
Don’t you think the money used to pay off Mick McCarthy should have been used to help him?
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I recommend you do a bit of reseacrh into Wolves before making such bold comments and pick holes in your own article.
Then again, let me help.
Mick was on a 12 month rolling contract so any pay off would be insignificant compared with current transfer fees and players’ wages.
Wolves have spent £40 million in recent seasons, higher than many.
When were Wolves “dirty”? – Oh sorry, one game highlighted on Match of the Day when poor old Joey Barton got as good as he gives. Oh then you’ll tell me how Karl Henry broke Zamora’s leg, but that wasn’t even a foul. I’ll conceed Henry didn’t help himself by getting sent off at Wigan, but one bad tackle. Don’t be so influenced by pundits that do about as much research into the bottom 15 of the Premier League as you have done.
Wolves have been on the receiving end of far more bad injuries than they have inflicted.
Not many teams have the finances to buy big players, they just go millions of pounds into debt to do so. Wolves have tried to cut their cloth accordingly and owe nothing. (I bet you’ll be doing an article on how clubs manage their finances poorly very soon in light of Rangers and Portsmouth, so give Wolves some credit for at least trying to do it properly – don’t criticise them)
Wolves “ruined other people’s chances”. Oh. I’m sorry “Mr. Wenger”, we’ll just roll over and let you tickle our bellies and get the three points you deserve just for turning up. Careful not to get your snood dirty.
Mick did a great job for Wolves and in time he will be remembered very fondly, almost a legend, but he has gone as high as he can. He has the worst top-flight managerial record since the creation of the Premier League, but don’t let facts cloud your opinions. He may be a good turd polisher, but all bar one of Sunday’s team were the turds he bought and polished. Fresh ideas and a new brand of turd cleaner could just be what is needed.
Thanks for all your work Mick. You brought our pride back.
Fair point with the research but I don’t think it’s meant as an attack on Wolves just a realisation of the tough times ahead. Good article and yes big Mick was a character
A dreadful blog. Ignorant, and poorly researched. If you don’t know anything about clubs outside the top 5, why write about them?
The only saving grace of this page is Ralphdog’s excellent reply. To add to the corrections he made, Wolves are currently 12th in the fairplay league, and finished 13th last season. Not fantastic, but not bad for a team fighting for their lives at the bottom of the table.
Gents apologies for the dirty claim, it should have been something more descriptive of their hard working approach.
You right I do not know my bottom teams and will do more research and appreciate your comments however this wasn’t meant as a dig at Wolves but more as a respectful fair well to McCarthy.
I do however still dislike the play of Wolves and they haven’t added a lot to the Premier League in my eyes so a change in manager can only be a good thing.