CLASSIC CLIPS: How Mick McCarthy Went VIRAL With Just Two Simple Words

0:00This podcast is part of the Acast Creator Network. talking about obviously things evolving and the game being gone obviously social media various bits and pieces coming into the world Mick I've got to touch on the press conference where they ask you it can't go on like this anymore and you think do you realise how big you are on TikTok? yes I'm six foot one I'm sat here I said on TikTok but I've been made aware of that somebody said to me you've had 8 million views of this I said what do you mean I haven't got a clue somebody asked me to do it you know what is it I've been walking through a train station I'm at the train station where I'm and these 14 ages young ones like 13, 14 have seen them and I'm there with my grandson and I'm pushing him round so I start walking round they're now wanting to come and speak to me so I'm walking around the station pushing my grandson and eventually they cop on to me said is it mek I said yeah can we do that video and I said to him I always say 500 odd games as a player 1000 odd as a manager fame at last but of course when we were at Reading I think have we lost 7 on the bounce or something I went one in I don't know something it can't go on like this I goes it can and it fucking did let me just tell you sorry excuse my friends you can bleep that I'm sorry but it just but you know some of your interviews and yours as well how did you find like working with the press like doing the press conferences sorry you get yours into it because I had one over in Ireland it was my first game back as a competitive game we're playing Georgia and we're coming from the hotel on the bus we've got the police escort everything's going well the bus breaks down oh yeah so we win 1-0 not a great performance I know what's going to come so we landed in the we landed we got back we got in the stadium about 10 minutes later than we would have done no problem we were there two hours before it didn't cause us any aggravation whatsoever journalists trying to you know make it out that it was the bus that we didn't play well and all that so I said oh my god you know can I just ask what happened with the coach as you were travelling in I said yeah it brought down he says would you like to elaborate on that I said yeah it won't go any further

2:35the press conference is in uproar like because they're all laughing at him but I had to do it because that's what he wanted they wanted that as a story and I wasn't going to go oh yeah we broke it down we should have had a better bus it can happen and we took it in our side when we won and yeah some of the press conferences I used to always stand up to look down at him that was a psychological always stood up always stood up psychologically so I was looking down on them secondly I'd always get my press officer I'd always I'd always speak second after games not first I'd get my press officer to listen what the other manager has said then he'd come and tell me if he was being negative or whatever so I was ready for it so I would do those two things but same as Mick I think you go into some games and there's definitely a preconceived idea from the press of what they want to do and say.

3:33So you've got to be clever enough to understand that if this happens, this is what you're going to get. If it doesn't happen, yeah, they'll swerve it up. But if it does happen, you've got to be ready for it. They have an agenda, don't they? When they come into the press conference, they have a story in their mind that they want to write and they ask you the question. And more often than not, they ask, I think people are getting better at it but more often than not they ask the question and they get the answer perfectly they wanted and they've written the story already and just got the answer how hard how hard is that because we've done it as players when you after a game win or lose yet the microphone straight under under your nose and it's like you know whether it's a loaded question or not but as a manager yeah because your emotions are much more heightened than a player because there's a lot more rivalry in terms of I never I never I made a point of never criticising the players or the team if it was a poor performance it was a poor performance and I'd say it was a poor performance I would not want to go out and criticise any of the players I would in the dressing room after the game or on the Monday or whatever I'd get stuck into a few but I would never ever want to bring that out in the press so I would completely and utterly miss that and the other things like Mick says if you know what angle they're going for you hopefully are prepared to make the right answers that actually calms it out it's not going to stop it because the game's happened but you might calm it down not saying about players when I was at Wolves I went to I think we spoke about that when he said you know what happened today and we'd had three games on the bounce or something we were in the academy I said the lads were running on empty you know that just went away came back and on the Monday my press officer says to me have you seen what these guys wrote what you said I said no what's he said he said you said the players were not entities I said what did I said they were running on empty so the following Saturday we got this little tour rag who's in front of me and I says to him what did you think I said and did you think you've got that as a scoop nobody else heard me say the players were not entities and you've gone away and written it I said they were running on empty I was raging I was raging oh because it's there there once it's printed it's there it's there forever you can take it out you know what a clown I'm just looking at that photograph can you go up again Mick's photograph look how old he looked there he looks younger now and that was five years ago was it seven games or 17 games I can't remember I wasn't involved with all of them but yeah you can't go on like this it can't it was at Glastonbury that flag it was up there it was the only time I've been to Glastonbury it was yeah the flag was flying people sending me picture amazing absolutely incredible but i say i get kids will come up and they want me to do it yeah the other night somebody said uh oh it's a train station and i said hi to this couple i said hello they're sort of you know you know when somebody's recognized you look at how you doing hello okay just you just told my son he's just dropped us off and he opened it when they said can you do that video it can't i said no i can't no see you i'm catching the train for real amazing isn't it this episode is brought to you by a load of pricks.net we are the experts in selling houses Chris couldn't sell his house what did you do Chris?

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