Editing Mick McCarthy (section)

===Ipswich Town===
[[File:Mick McCarthy.jpg|thumb|right|McCarthy managing [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]] in 2016]]
On 1 November 2012, McCarthy was appointed manager at [[Football League Championship|Championship]] side [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]]<ref name="Mick McCarthy: Ipswich Town appoint ex-Wolves boss"/> on a two-and-a-half-year contract.<ref name="Mick McCarthy: Ipswich Town appoint ex-Wolves boss">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/20153642 |title=Mick McCarthy: Ipswich Town appoint ex-Wolves boss|work= BBC Sport|date= 1 November 2012|access-date= 22 January 2016}}</ref> McCarthy's appointment came in the wake of [[Paul Jewell]]'s departure by mutual consent. McCarthy won his first match in charge as Ipswich manager on 3 November 2012, away at Birmingham, 0–1. This broke a 12 match winless run<ref>{{cite web|url=http://espnfc.com/soccer/report?gameId=344027|title=Birmingham City vs. Ipswich Town – Football Match Report – November 3, 2012 |work= ESPN|date=3 November 2012|access-date=3 November 2012}}</ref> in the league, 13 matches in all competitions. McCarthy guided Ipswich past Burnley on 10 November – the first home win since March after a late [[DJ Campbell]] winner. The match ended 2–1.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich-town-news/21844/town-2-1-burnley|title=Town 2–1 Burnley – Ipswich Town News|access-date=5 December 2012}}</ref> With a win against Nottingham Forest in late November, his sixth game in charge, McCarthy had successfully guided Ipswich out of the relegation zone.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich-town-news/21976/mccarthy-out-of-bottom-three-but-job-still-tough|title=McCarthy: Out of Bottom Three But Job Still Tough – Ipswich Town News|access-date=5 December 2012}}</ref> McCarthy's Ipswich stopped Millwall's 13-match unbeaten run with a 3–0 home win on 8 December. On 2 February 2013, McCarthy's assistant [[Terry Connor]] took charge of a 4–0 rout of [[Middlesbrough F.C.|Middlesbrough]] while McCarthy was ill. McCarthy then guided Ipswich to safety, finally finishing in 14th place. Prior to the 2013–14 season, McCarthy had signed 10 new players. McCarthy's first full season in charge of Ipswich ended with the club finishing in 9th place.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

On 30 June 2014, McCarthy and Terry Connor agreed a new three-year deal with Ipswich.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itfc.co.uk/news/article/boss-signs-new-deal-1706714.aspx|title=Boss signs new deal|first=Steve|last=Pearce|access-date=30 June 2014}}</ref> The following season he led the club to their first appearance in the Championship playoffs in ten years with a sixth-placed finish, before losing out to rivals [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]] in the semi-finals.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} During the 2015–16 season McCarthy and assistant Terry Connor renewed their contracts for a further two seasons, with the option to extend until 2020. McCarthy led Ipswich to a 7th-place finish in his third full season at Portman Road.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.itfc.co.uk/news/2016/january/contract-extensions-for-mick-and-tc/|title=CONTRACT EXTENSIONS FOR MICK AND TC|last=Pearce|first=Steve|date=22 January 2016|publisher=Ipswich Town|access-date=19 August 2017}}</ref> McCarthy's fourth full season in charge ended in a 16th-place finish.

On 29 March 2018, Ipswich Town announced that McCarthy would be leaving the club at the end of the 2017–18 season on the expiry of his contract, along with assistant manager Terry Connor, after talks with owner Marcus Evans.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.itfc.co.uk/news/2018/march/mick-mccarthy-to-depart-ipswich-town-at-the-end-of-his-contract/|title=Mick McCarthy to Depart Ipswich Town at the End of his Contract|publisher=Ipswich Town Football Club|date=29 March 2018|access-date=29 March 2018}}</ref> His final season with the club was marred by a fractured relationship between him and the club's supporters, with many supporters voicing their dissatisfaction with McCarthy's defensive style of play and McCarthy branding them as "numbskulls".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43466145|title=McCarthy to leave Ipswich in summer|work=BBC Sport }}</ref> He left the club earlier than expected on 10 April 2018, shortly after a 1–0 home win over Barnsley.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/mar/29/mick-mccarthy-leave-ipswich-manager-end-of-season|title=Mick McCarthy and Ipswich call it a day – to the relief of all concerned |date=29 March 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43624045 |title=Ipswich Town 1–0 Barnsley |work=BBC Sport |date=10 April 2018 |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>