@@joseparcenary4706 Lots of players under Ferguson were like this Scholes, Giggs. Giggs played until he was 40 and only had 64 caps for wales. I think it was Fergusons actions more than anyone else, in the ears of international managers, players, etc.
Legend of a man. Thanks for all you did for Irish football Mick and for many of the best days of my life. The legacy is not Saipan. The legacy is Yugoslavia, Croatia and Holland at Lansdowne Road. The legacy is Amsterdam, Lisbon, Tehran, Yokohama and Suwon. The legacy is the best quality of football Ireland ever played. The legacy is the best manager Ireland ever had.
Yep, it's a tough call alright. Jack has his three qualifications and WC quarter final. I'd personally give Mick the nod considering Charlton had a much stronger and experienced team, had the 'luxury' of qualifying directly from group with a second placed finish (Mick finished 2nd three times but only qualified once) and quite importantly the style of football under Mick was far superior. Love Jack too though!
Jack Charlton fit Ireland like a hand in glove...his team's were so awkward to play against.. actually quite clever in how he utilised his players...because Ireland wasn't teeming with quality but he got every ounce out of them and created a team spirit that was second to none
I think Ireland were going great when mick McCarthy was playing for Ireland during the jack charlton era,in my opinion the best years of the Irish journey in soccer
As a Sheffield Wednesday fan i'd love to see him as manager, has a proven record of success with modest resources. Did a really good job with Ireland when we played some pretty good football. That draw with Macedonia was a sickener though!
Good interview but he made it clear he wasn't going to talk in detail about Saipan but Joe wouldn't leave it be...I found it quite annoying and disrespectful tbh
Keane seems to have had rows with a lot of individuals since Saipan which shows the type of individual he is. I always thought McCarthy was and is a decent person who now has another basket case of a team to take on.
Mick McCarthy; top man, top leader of Ireland as both a player/captain and manager. Has proven to be a really great manager since then (2002) as well. I was hoping that Saipan wouldn't be mentioned in this interview (as it has been discussed ad nauseam) but I suppose it had to be brought up...
I agree James. Mick was always loyal to Ireland. He missed his brother's wedding as a player to play. He managed Ireland out in Cyprus while his father was on his death bed. Personally I supported him against Roy Keane. To me McCarthy played it with a straight bat while Keane is a serial flip flopper.
2 comments. 1) Mick comes across a a really decent human being which is in stark contrast to Keane. 2) Surely if the host can drink coffee out of a ceramic cup they can give one to the guest. Bit cheap there.
I think Mick did a great job with Ireland and enjoyed watching Ireland as much as England in those days but Roy Keane was immense for Ireland and always ran his heart out for them, would be nice if Mick actually showed some sort of humility and acknowledge what Roy did for that team and admit that both parties were to blame and regret it instead of refusing to talk about it, which suggests he made a bad call trying to humiliate his best player the night before you fly to the biggest tournament in the world. I like Mick and Roy, strong characters.
I think he’s just making the point that everything that’s been said has been said, and him saying anything more now will just keep the fire burning. Nothing wrong with that
Roy Keane was Irelands best player and Captain. He reports for international duty to prepare for a World Cup, has his loyalty and integrity questioned by McCarthy for missing one game of 14 qualifiers the night before flying out to Saipan in front of the Squad and staff, arrives in Saipan to be informed that the training pitch is bobbly, unwatered, rock hard and a risk of injury, to find out there's no training kit, footballs or medical equipment and expresses his disappointment with the disorganisation of the FAI and the management team for failing to ensure that the squad has adequate training and medical facilities for international level players preparing for a World Cup tournament and then is crucified by McCarthy and abandoned by the teammates he was fighting for the whole time. Roy Keane is a man of principles that will not accept lame excuses for substandard facilities, no football's, no training kit and accusations of disloyalty or feining injuries to avoid playing for his Country. Roy stuck to his guns and moral compass and told Mick McCarthy exactly how he felt about the ridiculous organisation of the facilities and equipment and was sent home for speaking out the truth.
Man of principle? Please. Roy Keane engineered his own departure from the World Cup. Mick McCarthy only asked him why he pulled out of the Tehran trip after assuring him that he would play. He NEVER accused him of faking an injury. HE flip-flopped about leaving the camp, HE told McCarthy to tell the press it was due to 'personal problems', HE undermined the manager and the squad with those two stupid interviews, and HE abused his manager in the most vile way possible. In short, HE DESERVED to be sent home.
Keane was really badly man managed by McCarthy. He would’ve well known his standards, character and should’ve had an idea what made him tick, yet his inexperience and weaknesses at the top level were brutally highlighted in his handling of Saipan and that qualifying campaign (and also denis irwins retirement). He seems a nice guy and as a player he’s a legend for his heart on the pitch but as a manager he’s the Irish moyes in a lot of ways (though I have to give him credit for getting them playing football after the dinosaur tactics of Charlton)
@@conorl1894 sorry mate, but I disagree with that. McCarthy made Keane his captain ahead of other more senior players because he believed in the Corkman’s ability and leadership profile. Bear in mind that he became permanent captain around about the same time as he became captain of Manchester United. Keane on the other hand never truly respected or liked McCarthy with their spat going all the way back to their post-season US tour in 1992. When you are offered the responsibility of captaining your side, there is an unwritten contract that you pull your weight by being more openly communicative and respectful of your manager. Keane was found wanting on those counts and was never truly willing to respect his role the way he did at Manchester United. In contrast McCarthy did his best to manage him well for five years, allowing him the privileges of coming later and leaving earlier than everyone else for international games. And while what happened in Saipan was unfortunate and McCarthy deserves some blame for that, Keane knew that it was just meant to be a period of rest and acclimatisation with the REAL training taking place in Japan where the facilities were top-notch. So he should definitely have kept his cool and certainly not disobeyed his manager by speaking to the press. And for him to implicitly criticise his teammates and manager in those interviews was utter sacrilege from a captain; he effectively attempted to undermine the harmony of the team in the process. So Mick was right to send him home and Keane showed that he wasn’t worthy of the honour of captaining his country.
I can’t remember any other Irish team playing more attractive football than the team under Mick, especially in 2002! Granted he had good players like Keane (both) & Duff but undoubtedly Jack had better players but chose to have us playing that long ball sh.te! Pity it was ruined by that Cork traitor but there you go! Top man Mick McCarthy!
That long Ball Sh,te made it difficult for European team to play against us and undoubtedly produced some decent results -granted it wasnt attractive at times but ROI were not Italy or Holland
@Josie Yep absolutely, and I would have loved for us to have a crack at one of the South American teams as well but at the same time we did have great players in Jack’s time but we were a hard watch! In light of Jacks passing earlier this year my comment is a little inappropriate but I was just trying to make the point that we did play great football under Mick even though Jack had better players!
@@timohanlonour players were some of the most decorated in world football and werent playing like that for their clubs.Our CBs were the envy of many a team.Mgrath,Lawrenson and O Leary for example,and Moran wasnt bad either.Whelan Lawro Brady Houghton Mgrath O Leary, Irwin,Keane, were all world class.Sheedy too perhaps.Then you had top players like Staunton Stapleton,Moran,Townsend to name but a few.To be honest we should have done hat bit better.Count the medals of that lot that I have just mentioned and you will see a proper haul,up there with any country in Europe.Not only in England but in the Case of Brady Italy too,with 2 seria league wins.European winners too.Sorry but we didnt have to kick and rush.
Keane had his principles and he stood by them...to call the man a traitor is bang out of order...Keane gave everything when he played for Ireland or did you forget that?
Joe there always failed to ask Roy about the facts. Mick said he had faked injury. Roy pretended that were untrue. Facts are, he went back to Manchester and played 3 full matches within one week on his 'injured knee'.
Struggling is when a team puts a lot of effort in their play and nothing good comes out of it. ROI were bullied off the pitch by Wales the other night....
Put it this way, out of Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy whether as manager or player, only one of them was World class and it certainly isn't Mick McCarthy
Roy was good, but not world class not in the same bracket as zidane, messi ,ronaldinho their world class, as Roy being manager his record speaks for itself crap.
@@patodonovan274 Hmmmm, i'll just (safely assume) you hate Manchester United if you're going to say delusional things like that. Its plain STUPID comparing Keane to the three players you've mentioned as they were all in different positions and are amongst the three greatest players of ALL TIME not just world class. As for a manager when did McCarthy ever take a team from the bottom three to promotion in the same season. Respectfully, you're a complete idiot. Your mother should keep you in a locked room and never let you speak to grown ups again
Limited player, slow and crap, just good in air. Only an idiot would have picked him over O'leary. This was the guy jumping for joy after 2-2 draw, when we were 2-0 up in amsterdam.
Take it you never saw Ireland play under Jack and how Mick fitted into that style..... or are you just a keyboard warrior that hasn't considered the bigger picture ??
If I was a player and McCarthy was a manger that sent me home, I would feel so degraded to be told what to do by such a 3rd rate manager, I would laugh in his face and tell him to make me go home, the Fans would be behind the player if he was of keanes calibur, that was the perfect opportunity to get rid of old big nose and get a decent manager.......................... there is a reason he has such a big nose, ask the little wooden kid.
can there be many managers who have managed 8 teams and only ever had 1 that he managed to get more than a 1.4 average of points per game? and that includes some teams that had very poor opposition, as a player he was very very average and would never have got in the England team so chose to play for Ireland cos he was part Irish, he was born in England played in England, had an English accent, yet realised he was not that good so chose to play for a crap national team so he could get International football, fake irishman.
Even worse for our greatest ever player who constantly complains about players thinking they are bigger than their club who walked out on his own national team in the middle of a World Cup. And that’s why he’s not even considered an Irish great alongside his brother, his brother did much more for the country than Roy ever did
8:40.....thanks for the picture. Wasnt sure what Mick looked like.
Mick is really a class gentleman.
19:45 the most intense moment in Off The Ball history😂😂
And 26:47 shortly afterwards a close 2nd
Jesus.
Christ!
The silence wow
@@joseparcenary4706 Lots of players under Ferguson were like this Scholes, Giggs. Giggs played until he was 40 and only had 64 caps for wales. I think it was Fergusons actions more than anyone else, in the ears of international managers, players, etc.
Legend of a man. Thanks for all you did for Irish football Mick and for many of the best days of my life. The legacy is not Saipan. The legacy is Yugoslavia, Croatia and Holland at Lansdowne Road. The legacy is Amsterdam, Lisbon, Tehran, Yokohama and Suwon. The legacy is the best quality of football Ireland ever played. The legacy is the best manager Ireland ever had.
I think Mick was great, but Charlton -with his 3 qualifications - was the best manager ROI ever had IMHO.
Yep, it's a tough call alright. Jack has his three qualifications and WC quarter final. I'd personally give Mick the nod considering Charlton had a much stronger and experienced team, had the 'luxury' of qualifying directly from group with a second placed finish (Mick finished 2nd three times but only qualified once) and quite importantly the style of football under Mick was far superior. Love Jack too though!
Jack Charlton fit Ireland like a hand in glove...his team's were so awkward to play against.. actually quite clever in how he utilised his players...because Ireland wasn't teeming with quality but he got every ounce out of them and created a team spirit that was second to none
Is that you Roy?
A great manager a perfect gentleman and a good friend.
He was exposed as a cowboy in fairness
I think Ireland were going great when mick McCarthy was playing for Ireland during the jack charlton era,in my opinion the best years of the Irish journey in soccer
As a Sheffield Wednesday fan i'd love to see him as manager, has a proven record of success with modest resources. Did a really good job with Ireland when we played some pretty good football. That draw with Macedonia was a sickener though!
Just over t'road!
The defeat in 1997 was even worse! Probably Mick’s nadir as a coach.
Saipan...Mick could of handled it better, but Keane didn't have to do a runner.
Keane was playing for ROI not Mick.
Anyway, Mick's a top man!
He was sent home
Good interview but he made it clear he wasn't going to talk in detail about Saipan but Joe wouldn't leave it be...I found it quite annoying and disrespectful tbh
Note the luciferian/freemasonic handshake at 31:36 btw. :/
His Saipan adventure made us The We’re to take part team
It’s the only thing he is known for course you should talk about it
Keane seems to have had rows with a lot of individuals since Saipan which shows the type of individual he is. I always thought McCarthy was and is a decent person who now has another basket case of a team to take on.
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Love this man!
My favourite manager!
Mick McCarthy; top man, top leader of Ireland as both a player/captain and manager. Has proven to be a really great manager since then (2002) as well. I was hoping that Saipan wouldn't be mentioned in this interview (as it has been discussed ad nauseam) but I suppose it had to be brought up...
I agree James. Mick was always loyal to Ireland. He missed his brother's wedding as a player to play. He managed Ireland out in Cyprus while his father was on his death bed. Personally I supported him against Roy Keane. To me McCarthy played it with a straight bat while Keane is a serial flip flopper.
kevin gallagher accused Keano of faking an injury
Plus made us the here to take part team
I've always admired Mick and the way he has his teams play football.
He's honest as the day is long & a great manager in my eyes
2 comments. 1) Mick comes across a a really decent human being which is in stark contrast to Keane. 2) Surely if the host can drink coffee out of a ceramic cup they can give one to the guest. Bit cheap there.
At least the interviewer had the awareness at the end to concede that his line of questioning had been idiotic.
Such a humble great former player ..
Good times ahead for eire ⚽️⚽️☘☘☘
Silence was deafening.....
Ipswitch fans wanted him gone. How did that work out for you? He got the best out of what he was given.
How would Roy keane advise his son on choosing his international status
What's that surpposed to mean?
@@leeturton9254 I assume he's asking what Roy would say to his sons about which country to play for, as his sons could play for England or Ireland
I think Mick did a great job with Ireland and enjoyed watching Ireland as much as England in those days but Roy Keane was immense for Ireland and always ran his heart out for them, would be nice if Mick actually showed some sort of humility and acknowledge what Roy did for that team and admit that both parties were to blame and regret it instead of refusing to talk about it, which suggests he made a bad call trying to humiliate his best player the night before you fly to the biggest tournament in the world. I like Mick and Roy, strong characters.
I think he’s just making the point that everything that’s been said has been said, and him saying anything more now will just keep the fire burning. Nothing wrong with that
Ok Roy
The Bull Mccabe should get the Ireland job. The Bull Mccabe would get lads playing great football on " The Field "
Solid gent.
other than that i can't think what 60's bringing me.
little did we know
Roy Keane was Irelands best player and Captain.
He reports for international duty to prepare for a World Cup, has his loyalty and integrity questioned by McCarthy for missing one game of 14 qualifiers the night before flying out to Saipan in front of the Squad and staff, arrives in Saipan to be informed that the training pitch is bobbly, unwatered, rock hard and a risk of injury, to find out there's no training kit, footballs or medical equipment and expresses his disappointment with the disorganisation of the FAI and the management team for failing to ensure that the squad has adequate training and medical facilities for international level players preparing for a World Cup tournament and then is crucified by McCarthy and abandoned by the teammates he was fighting for the whole time.
Roy Keane is a man of principles that will not accept lame excuses for substandard facilities, no football's, no training kit and accusations of disloyalty or feining injuries to avoid playing for his Country.
Roy stuck to his guns and moral compass and told Mick McCarthy exactly how he felt about the ridiculous organisation of the facilities and equipment and was sent home for speaking out the truth.
Man of principle? Please. Roy Keane engineered his own departure from the World Cup.
Mick McCarthy only asked him why he pulled out of the Tehran trip after assuring him that he would play. He NEVER accused him of faking an injury. HE flip-flopped about leaving the camp, HE told McCarthy to tell the press it was due to 'personal problems', HE undermined the manager and the squad with those two stupid interviews, and HE abused his manager in the most vile way possible.
In short, HE DESERVED to be sent home.
Keane was really badly man managed by McCarthy. He would’ve well known his standards, character and should’ve had an idea what made him tick, yet his inexperience and weaknesses at the top level were brutally highlighted in his handling of Saipan and that qualifying campaign (and also denis irwins retirement). He seems a nice guy and as a player he’s a legend for his heart on the pitch but as a manager he’s the Irish moyes in a lot of ways (though I have to give him credit for getting them playing football after the dinosaur tactics of Charlton)
@@conorl1894 sorry mate, but I disagree with that.
McCarthy made Keane his captain ahead of other more senior players because he believed in the Corkman’s ability and leadership profile. Bear in mind that he became permanent captain around about the same time as he became captain of Manchester United. Keane on the other hand never truly respected or liked McCarthy with their spat going all the way back to their post-season US tour in 1992. When you are offered the responsibility of captaining your side, there is an unwritten contract that you pull your weight by being more openly communicative and respectful of your manager. Keane was found wanting on those counts and was never truly willing to respect his role the way he did at Manchester United. In contrast McCarthy did his best to manage him well for five years, allowing him the privileges of coming later and leaving earlier than everyone else for international games.
And while what happened in Saipan was unfortunate and McCarthy deserves some blame for that, Keane knew that it was just meant to be a period of rest and acclimatisation with the REAL training taking place in Japan where the facilities were top-notch. So he should definitely have kept his cool and certainly not disobeyed his manager by speaking to the press. And for him to implicitly criticise his teammates and manager in those interviews was utter sacrilege from a captain; he effectively attempted to undermine the harmony of the team in the process. So Mick was right to send him home and Keane showed that he wasn’t worthy of the honour of captaining his country.
How ever was wrong or right Roy left his country down by leaving as a proud irish man nothing would have stopped me from playing from my country.
The Gulp at the start always has me in stitches
Love Mick sad he got chopped before euro play off
I can’t remember any other Irish team playing more attractive football than the team under Mick, especially in 2002! Granted he had good players like Keane (both) & Duff but undoubtedly Jack had better players but chose to have us playing that long ball sh.te! Pity it was ruined by that Cork traitor but there you go!
Top man Mick McCarthy!
That long Ball Sh,te made it difficult for European team to play against us and undoubtedly produced some decent results -granted it wasnt attractive at times but ROI were not Italy or Holland
@Josie Yep absolutely, and I would have loved for us to have a crack at one of the South American teams as well but at the same time we did have great players in Jack’s time but we were a hard watch! In light of Jacks passing earlier this year my comment is a little inappropriate but I was just trying to make the point that we did play great football under Mick even though Jack had better players!
@@timohanlonour players were some of the most decorated in world football and werent playing like that for their clubs.Our CBs were the envy of many a team.Mgrath,Lawrenson and O Leary for example,and Moran wasnt bad either.Whelan Lawro Brady Houghton Mgrath O Leary, Irwin,Keane, were all world class.Sheedy too perhaps.Then you had top players like Staunton Stapleton,Moran,Townsend to name but a few.To be honest we should have done hat bit better.Count the medals of that lot that I have just mentioned and you will see a proper haul,up there with any country in Europe.Not only in England but in the Case of Brady Italy too,with 2 seria league wins.European winners too.Sorry but we didnt have to kick and rush.
Keane had his principles and he stood by them...to call the man a traitor is bang out of order...Keane gave everything when he played for Ireland or did you forget that?
@@leeturton9254 What else do you call someone who walks out on their country?
Have to admit I'd have Mick before Martin O Neil
TheHotrod017 I’ve been saying it for years. Bring him back!
@@craigoneill8277 100%..Too much negativity with O Neil ..Always a bad vibe
Let me see what i can do for you here..........there ya go now!!!!
I was hoping that Mick would come to Leeds United last season. That was funny asking Rangers for Players who would qualify to play for Ireland.
@Liam I didn’t know that. I bet the Young Cork kid was popular in Cork.
He makes a great point about Declan Rice. Though I hope he picks to play for us
McCarthy squirming on the the keano injury accusation. I had no doubt that Roy was telling the truth. This 100% proves it
Oooof. That was a moment alright. "You never accuse a player of feigning injury do you".
Joe there always failed to ask Roy about the facts. Mick said he had faked injury. Roy pretended that were untrue. Facts are, he went back to Manchester and played 3 full matches within one week on his 'injured knee'.
Good ol slick mick
Watching this and watching the current Ireland team struggling against Wales...
Struggling is when a team puts a lot of effort in their play and nothing good comes out of it. ROI were bullied off the pitch by Wales the other night....
Put it this way, out of Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy whether as manager or player, only one of them was World class and it certainly isn't Mick McCarthy
One of them had the honour of captaining his country at a World Cup. It wasn’t Roy Keane. 😉😎
Roy was good, but not world class not in the same bracket as zidane, messi ,ronaldinho their world class, as Roy being manager his record speaks for itself crap.
@@patodonovan274 Hmmmm, i'll just (safely assume) you hate Manchester United if you're going to say delusional things like that. Its plain STUPID comparing Keane to the three players you've mentioned as they were all in different positions and are amongst the three greatest players of ALL TIME not just world class. As for a manager when did McCarthy ever take a team from the bottom three to promotion in the same season. Respectfully, you're a complete idiot. Your mother should keep you in a locked room and never let you speak to grown ups again
Can you get any more English than Mick McCarthy 🤣
6 Grandkids, can only name 3 😂
It is very ironic though!
Mc Nicholls??
Keane is no lier it should been handled better
That must have been murder for Mico
Her mother was a Doyle 😂
So si Siobhan
2 minutes in..... enough foreplay Joe..
Mick you look like my grandad
and mine! Spitting image of him
Christhorpe Junction This is where the Mick McCarthy wink gif would come in, LOL.
Niamh
18:27 haha!
Tis a funny shaped head he has
Action man 🤣🤣🤣
Roy
Limited player, slow and crap, just good in air. Only an idiot would have picked him over O'leary. This was the guy jumping for joy after 2-2 draw, when we were 2-0 up in amsterdam.
Lawrenson better than the two of em put together,but he didnt pick himself that was down to Charlton.
Take it you never saw Ireland play under Jack and how Mick fitted into that style..... or are you just a keyboard warrior that hasn't considered the bigger picture ??
If I was a player and McCarthy was a manger that sent me home, I would feel so degraded to be told what to do by such a 3rd rate manager, I would laugh in his face and tell him to make me go home, the Fans would be behind the player if he was of keanes calibur, that was the perfect opportunity to get rid of old big nose and get a decent manager.......................... there is a reason he has such a big nose, ask the little wooden kid.
Gowl
First touch disgrace
can there be many managers who have managed 8 teams and only ever had 1 that he managed to get more than a 1.4 average of points per game? and that includes some teams that had very poor opposition, as a player he was very very average and would never have got in the England team so chose to play for Ireland cos he was part Irish, he was born in England played in England, had an English accent, yet realised he was not that good so chose to play for a crap national team so he could get International football, fake irishman.
Idiots like me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Aine
What a joke Mick is down nothing in his career
he broke his promise of training properly, disgracefully to treat our greatest ever player with such disrespect
What did he do to Phil Babb
@@gerryryan -Paul McGrath?
Even worse for our greatest ever player who constantly complains about players thinking they are bigger than their club who walked out on his own national team in the middle of a World Cup. And that’s why he’s not even considered an Irish great alongside his brother, his brother did much more for the country than Roy ever did
@@conors4430 roy keane has a brother?