McCarthy: Top flight a ‘million miles’ away

Former Ireland boss Mick McCarthy was under no illusions about the size of the task in hand after taking over as manager at the Championship’s bottom side Ipswich Town yesterday — admitting the Suffolk club is a“million miles” from returning to the top flight.

The 53-year-old and his former Wolves assistant Terry Connor have signed contracts until June 2015.

“Premier League? I’m talking about staying in the Championship for now,” he said. “I think that the first job is to get them out of the bottom three and staying up is going to be a task in itself.”