Future as Ireland manager looks bleak for McCarthy

THE future is looking bleak for the man once known as Captain Fantastic.

Fri, 18 Oct, 2002 - 01:00
Mícheál Lehane

Bookies are offering odds of 5/6 that Mick McCarthy will have vacated the manager’s seat by the time Ireland play Georgia in March in their next Euro qualifer.

Booed off the field in Lansdowne Road after the 2-1 defeat by Switzerland on Wednesday night, McCarthy’s days looked numbered.

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