Editing Mick McCarthy (section)

===Millwall===
McCarthy became player-manager at [[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]] in March 1992, succeeding [[Bruce Rioch]]. In his first full season (1992–93), he was still registered as a player, but made only one further appearance (in the [[Anglo-Italian Cup]]), before he became solely a manager.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

He took the club to the play-offs in 1993–94 after a strong third-place finish, but they lost out to [[Derby County F.C.|Derby County]] in the semi-finals. During the 1995–96 season, McCarthy became the prime candidate for the vacant [[Republic of Ireland national football team|Republic of Ireland]] manager's job, after the resignation of [[Jack Charlton]]. After a protracted period of speculation, McCarthy was officially appointed on 5 February 1996, two days after his resignation at the club. Despite sitting a comfortable 14 points clear from the relegation zone at the time of his departure, Millwall would go on to suffer the drop (by virtue of goals scored) after McCarthy's departure.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

His loan signings of the underachieving [[Russia]]n internationals [[Sergei Yuran]] and [[Vassili Kulkov]] from [[FC Spartak Moscow|Spartak Moscow]], who each received a £150,000 signing-on fee and were being paid five times the wage of the rest of the first team, would later be cited {{by whom|date=November 2018}} as one of the main reasons Millwall were eventually relegated under [[Jimmy Nicholl]], although it cannot be proven.<ref name="Bethel">Bethel, Chris; ''Millwall Football Club 1940–2001'' Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2001, p.122; {{ISBN|0-7524-2187-5}}</ref>