Editing Mick McCarthy (section)

===Wolverhampton Wanderers===
[[File:Mick McCarthy Wolverhampton Wanderers Manager.jpg|thumb|right|McCarthy as [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolves]] manager in 2011]]
On 21 July 2006, McCarthy was appointed manager at Championship side [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]], replacing [[Glenn Hoddle]] who had resigned a fortnight earlier. He signed a 12-month rolling contract<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/wolverhampton_wanderers/5202552.stm |title=McCarthy named new Wolves manager|work=[[BBC Sport]]|date= 21 July 2006 |access-date= 19 August 2009}}</ref> The team managed to make the promotion play-offs in his first season, where they lost out to local rivals [[West Bromwich Albion]] over two legs, losing 3–2 at [[Molineux Stadium|Molineux]] and 1–0 at [[The Hawthorns]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=McNulty |first1=Phil |title=West Brom 1–0 Wolves |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/6649727.stm |access-date=22 November 2021 |work=BBC Sport |date=16 May 2007}}</ref>

In the [[2007–08 in English football|2007–08 season]] he took the club to within a single placing of a successive play-off finish, ending seventh, losing the coveted sixth place to [[Watford F.C.|Watford]] by a goal difference of only one.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jolly |first1=Richard |title=Blackpool 1–1 Watford |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/may/04/blackpool.watford |access-date=22 November 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=4 May 2008}}</ref> The campaign had also seen him linked with the international positions of [[Korea Republic National Football Team|South Korea]] and his previous post as Republic of Ireland manager.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7128801.stm |title=McCarthy rules out Korea position |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=5 December 2007 |access-date= 19 August 2009}}</ref>

The [[2008-09 in English football|2008–09 season]] started well for McCarthy as he won the August [[Football League Championship Manager of the Month|Championship Manager of the Month Award]], after seeing his side reach the top of the table,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/wolverhampton_wanderers/7598391.stm |title=Wolves boss scoops monthly award |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=4 September 2008 |access-date= 19 August 2009}}</ref> eventually going on to match Wolves' record start to a season (equaling the 1949–50 season). Wolves maintained their position at the top of the table over the following months, and McCarthy again won the Manager of the Month Award for November.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/wolverhampton_wanderers/7765134.stm |title=McCarthy is top Championship boss |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=4 December 2008 |access-date= 19 August 2009}}</ref> After maintaining top spot since October, McCarthy's Wolves secured promotion to the Premier League by beating [[Queens Park Rangers F.C.|QPR]] 1–0 on 18 April 2009. The following week McCarthy clinched his second Championship as a manager after a 1–1 draw at his hometown club [[Barnsley F.C.|Barnsley]]. He won the Championship Manager of the Season Award at the conclusion of the campaign, his side having led the table for 42 of 46 games.

The following season, McCarthy kept Wolves in the Premier League, his first success at this level in three attempts. The club assured safety with two games to spare, eventually finishing 15th, their best league finish since 1979–80, and their first ever survival in the modern Premier League. However, in the process of keeping the team in the top division, Wolves and McCarthy were fined £25,000 for fielding a weakened team for a fixture at [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] and thus breaking the Premier League rule E20. The Premier League also stated that the club had failed to fulfil its obligations to the league and other clubs in the utmost good faith and was therefore in breach of Rule B13.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wolves fined £25,000 over Old Trafford team selection |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/w/wolverhampton_wanderers/8521603.stm |access-date=1 September 2020 |work=BBC Sport |date=18 February 2010}}</ref>

The team spent the majority of the 2010–11 campaign mired in the relegation zone, yet managed to defeat the likes of [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9135951.stm|title=Wolverhampton 2–1 Man City| date=30 October 2010|work=BBC Sport|access-date=12 April 2012}}</ref> [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9384148.stm|title= Wolverhampton 2–1 Man Utd| date=5 February 2011|work=BBC Sport|access-date=13 February 2012}}</ref> [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9308904.stm|title= Liverpool 0–1 Wolverhampton| date=29 December 2010|work=BBC Sport|access-date=13 February 2012}}</ref> and [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9334680.stm|title=Wolverhampton 0–1 Chelsea| date=5 January 2011|work=BBC Sport|access-date=13 February 2012}}</ref> A final day loss to Blackburn put them in danger of relegation, but results elsewhere meant they narrowly survived in 17th place, one point ahead of relegated [[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham]] and [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9492248.stm|title=Premier League D-Day as it happened| date=22 May 2011|work=BBC Sport|first=Sam|last=Lyon|access-date=13 February 2012}}</ref> This gave McCarthy the distinction of being the first Wolves manager in thirty years to maintain the club's top flight position for two successive seasons.

The 2011–12 season began well for McCarthy and, after three games, his team topped the Premier League with 7 points.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/14520311.stm|title=Wolverhampton 2–0 Fulham| date=21 August 2011|work=BBC Sport|access-date=13 February 2012}}</ref> However, results tailed off and by January they had once again entered the relegation zone after nine games without victory. That same season Wolves sold £15&nbsp;million worth of players and with the board allowing McCarthy to spend just £12&nbsp;million it seemed inevitable when McCarthy was sacked as Wolves manager on 13 February 2012<ref name="BBC 17012933">{{cite news|title=Wolves sack manager Mick McCarthy|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17012933|access-date=13 February 2012|work=BBC News|date=13 February 2012}}</ref> after a run of poor results, culminating in a 5–1 home defeat to [[Black Country derby|local rivals]] [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29539124/the_province/ |title=Wolves fire coach |work=[[The Province]] |date=14 February 2012 |page=31 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=15 March 2019}}{{free access}}</ref> The club was relegated at the end of the season with three games to spare.