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Wolves manager Mick McCarthy and captain Gary Breen were involved in a furious dressing room bust- up, it emerged today.
An angry McCarthy and his long-serving lieutenant had to be separated as tempers flared following Wolves’ desperately disappointing draw with ten man Southampton on Tuesday night.
The Wolves boss is understood to have laid the blame for Jason Euell’s injury-time equaliser at the door of his skipper – prompting an angry exchange after the final whistle.
McCarthy stressed in a statement today that no punches were thrown, but the Express & Star understands the exchange became so heated that the dressing room door was locked as the pair aired their grievances.
The Wolves boss and his skipper held clear the air talks yesterday, with McCarthy insisting both parties have already put the incident behind them.
“Having conceded a goal in the 94th minute emotions were running high and heated words were exchanged,” McCarthy admitted today.
“But this was a dressing room argument and there were too many other people around for the situation to go beyond a bit of shouting. No punches were exchanged.
“Me and Breeny have worked together for a long time and have got a lot of respect for each other.
“We are both passionate and competitive people who desperately want to win games, so these things happen.
“The two of us have met since for a clear the air talk and that’s the end of it – we move on to the next game.”
Rumours about the bust- up began circulated around Molineux shortly after the final whistle – prompting the club to release today’s statement.
Wolves were keen to stress today that the row was the result of competitive passions and not a symbol of a split between the manager and his players.
Breen and McCarthy’s fierce loyalty and respect for each other has been built in a decade of working alongside each other at Sunderland and for the Republic of Ireland before they were re-united at Wolves.
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Interestingly enough, back when Roy Keane quit the Ireland world cup campaign 2002, Breen was one of two players going to Keanes room as he was packing, telling him that they understood him and was on his side.
All is well at the club then. I suggest Mr Morgan has some serious sorting out to do!!1
Oh dear, just what you dont want !!!! In the words of Harry Hill, “FIGHT”
Maybe something like this incident may make Mr Morgan re think his loyalty to mad Mick.
comparisons with this and Roy Keane are stupid.
I think in all honesty Mad Mick has man management issues.
I find it hard to imagine the players not slagging him off and questionning his decisions behind his back. Having said that there was no excuse for allowing the free header but…………the players are not good enough and Mick is the one who assembled the squad.
If it were a one off incident id favour the manager and berrate the player for lack of respect, but it seems there are and have been issues with others this season.
Well done for giving Eastwood 5 minutes the other night Mick. Very fair chance that was.
WELL THAT SUMS IT UP, WONDER IF BREEN WILL PLAY NOW!! LIKE FREDDY DIDNT AFTER HIS NON-PUBLICISED BUST UP WITH MM!!
i for one don’t like to see players and managers falling out… and definately don’t want it public knowledge! think the pressure may be telling…
i’ve said it before and i will say it again, players & manager ned to keep there mouths shut….
Oh well this is pefect material for the boggies to take the mick out of mick.
Mick McCarthy is digging his own grave, I suspect.
breen, eastwood, daniel jones, mark little, darren ward, jody craddock, to name a few. seems mick is losing his grip now, obviously unrest in the camp and a player revolt on the cards. sad end to a poor season, dosen’t bode well for next season does it.
EARLY BIRD ANYONE!!!!
I think the pair of them should sort out their differences outside the job centre.
All those in favour post below..
Tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock……
The main leader of our team (Altough not captain is ex-captain) has had a bust up with our manager! Can’t be good!
Well that guarantees Neil Collins a place for the remainder of the season then ??
Every day more and more alarming stories are coming out of Molineux.
Every week someone seems to be wanting to jump ship and leave Captain Mick’s voyage to mid-table
mediocrity.
Steve Morgan must look at this shambolic season and draw his own conclusions.
The only probable result of this season is that Mick will be able to renew his seat on
Football Focus each week next season !
well thats no surprise is it, thats exactly what happened with mcindoe after the play off when he was subbed mm will not stand for anyone claining he is not right, Mick is getting far to arrogant for my liking, he does not seem to care what the fans think. some managers like it when players argue back because it shows they care. Ive had enough of him the prat and lets give him to the end of season even though the playoffs probably won’t happen and then lets have big sam or incey in.
Lets give it to someone who listens to others
This could either galvanise the squad, or tear it apart. Can’t see Breen playing again.
The squad confidence will be effect and could lose faith in MM. IMO all hopes of a play-off place have gone.
The Club should NOT be allowing these issues outside for the media and anyone else to put their own slant on it
The E & S never mind the fans we suspect are “stirring up” more anti MM feelings
We are not MM fans but this type of nonsense does no-one any good
What is the useless Moxey doing to prevent these incidents from leaking out or is he far too busy protecting his own back side again?
SO WHAT!!! This thing happens in football clubs all over the Country every day, it happens in my Sunday Morning team, SO WHAT!! If you expect a large group of males to spend nearly everyday with each other in a high pressure environment for over 9 months of the year you are dillusional. Another E & S story about nothing on a non-story day!
The circus continues!!
So everything is not rosy in the Molineux garden? I would not be at all surprised if this is not the first such incident! The players like the fans must wonder what goes on in McCarthy’s head with tactics, substitutions, players out of position, reserves ignored, ex-academy players sent on loan and so on but cannot go pulic with their views..
This incident has occurred with one of MM’s trusted favourites, so it will be interesting to see what develops or will it go stone cold? Is it possible that the players have little or maybe even no confidence in the manager regardless of what has been previously reported? If true, then something has to give and could it be the manager for we cannot have another total clearout like we did 2 seasons ago or we will be down to the bare bones!
Gary Breen recently made his own comments on the situation at the club and maybe he has a different opinion to the other players but he has known McCarthy for a long time, so something has definitely lit the fuse! Should there be a potential timebomb ready to go off, what will Morgan do to prevent it…if indeed anything!
Why on earth has this been made public? It should remain in the dressing room.
Regarding Eastwood their has been criticism of him by certain fans which I do not understand as he has barely
had a game since August! When he has appeared recently it has been for 2, 6, 9 & 11 minutes how is he
expected to influence a game given that time on the pitch. Some players don’t influence a game when
when playing lots of games: example Elliott (in my opinion)
Post 11. AYE AYE Captain. Couldn’t agree more.
All very embarrassing, I can’t remember ever reading so many comments from so many people at the club saying what has been going wrong.
Bothroyd, Eastwood, Potter etc…
Not only do we, as fans, have to put up with mid table tactics and average players, we also have to listen to the bleating and take the blame!
Tuesday’s game was just about as bad as it gets. It is obvious that the whole team is badly affected by this state of affairs. Hennessey’s opening nerves summed up the whole team and the whole game.
The atmosphere was awful and the football matched it. If McCarthy can turn this ship around then he will probably be the best manager on the planet.
Interesting comments from Capello:
“The winning mentality is very, very important - if you play with fear it is impossible to win.”
Simple really, as a manager you need confidence in your players, as a player you need confidence in your manager and the fans need confidence in both so they can transmit confidence to the team.
There is a breakdown at every level, every day that goes by, makes everything slightly worse. Something is going to have to give soon!
8.LCW
You don’t need any help from us to do that.
This amazes me at how it has become public knowledge so readily. Normally these type of things are kept quiet, but this was announced on the official wolves site!
Anyway, emotions were bound to run high after what happened. But this sort of situation isnt ideal. I hope theyve sorted their differences out, but we’ll see.
8. we have got more important things to think about, than a bit of handbags in the changing room
the mick mccarthy circus just keeps getting better every day . Wot an embarrassment this bloke is! Don’t see one ounce of professionalism in him. Things like this and all the other tripe we’ve heard going on at mol this season should be kept in house.
For all Wolves problems this doesn’t concern me at all. This things happen regularly and if anything shows passion. It makes me laugh that people want to turn this into something, it happens all the time. When we went up there was always bust ups, particularly with Butler ha.
Wolves have paid heavily for McCarthy falling out with McIndoe in the Summer. The same has happened
with the boy Eastwood (even though I’m not convinced he’s good enough he should have been given a chance
to prove himself). McCarthy has now fallen out with Breen. I would say that his man management skills
could be described as poor when it comes to players who don’t toe the line.
Shades of Roy Keane. Sorry but I think the dressing room has been pretty much lost now and Morgan seriously needs to think about which direction he wants the club to go in. The manager has managed to alienate fans and players, the 2 critical parts to a football club!
No big suprises.
Mick is a liability and the sooner we get rid of him the better.
watching the terrible game-tuesday night i did notice throughout the game,that our full backs did not cover the posts.i can only assume this instruction came from the manager/coaching staff.anybody notice the direction of the ball into our net for their second goal ??
I love it the way you are all slagging him off now!
How come you don’t call him “MERLIN MICK” anymore, like you did at the begining of the season!
Yeeeeeeehaaaa!
It’s the end of season - Wolves finish 9th, which surprises Mick since he hadn’t looked at the table before and believed we were in the playoffs. He gets called to go to Steve Morgan’s home in Cheshire.
“Morning Mick.”
“Morning Steve.”
“Last season didn’t go according to plan did it Mick?”
“Well, I always said we were looking for a top 9 finish boss”
“I seem to recall it was a top two, which then became a playoff spot. That’s why I gave you the millions to spend.”
“It wasn’t me. That was the pesky stirring reporters.”
“The fans don’t like you.”
“I think you’ll find the majority of them do - it’s only a minority of nuggets that don’t like me. It was their fault. It wasn’t me.”
“Most of the players don’t like you.”
“I think you’ll find the majority of them do. Kevin Kyle’s named his son after me.”
“I thought his son was called Dick?”
“I rest my case”
“I’m not sure that I agree with you on that”
“Yes you do, or you’ll never play for me again”
“I own the club Mick; I don’t play”
“Sorry - thought you were one of my centre halves for a moment.”
“So, tell me why I shouldn’t sack you and bring in, Paul Ince, for example”
“He started World War 1″
“I think you’ll find the assasination of Arch Duke Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip caused that”
“No, it was Paul Ince.”
“Okay - we’re getting nowhere here”
“That’s not my fault”
“I’m getting fed up that you never accept any blame”
“That’s not my fault”
“There you go again. I’m contacting Sam Allardyce. I’ve had enough of you”
“He told me he thinks you’re ugly. And he started the 1988 Burmese uprising”
“You’re sacked Mick. It’s no-one’s fault but your own”
“No it isn’t”
“GET OUT YOU NUMPTY”
“I think you’ll find it’s you that’s the numpty”
etc.
14) I hope you are wrong there. Collins-one of MM’s favourites- has been awful this season. There are 3 players that I would be glad not to see again this season - Collins, Henry and Bothroyd.
I think some of the blame for the last goal has to at Hennessey’s door. The goalkeeping coach needs to work on this. The 6 yard box is the keepers.
Anyway let’s move on and get some of this fighting and battling qualities on the field. How we could do with a Downing, Muscat, Bull and Streete for these crucial last 11 games!
MAKES A CHANGE FROM BLAMING THE FANS
HA, HA, HAAAAAAAAAAA
Thats famlies for you… they will make it up before bedtime.
Mick’s recipe for success:
1)put a poor team together and ensure that only your favourites play
2)ignore any squad member who may be showing a bit of form (Denes Rosa in the reserves - for example)
3)when results don’t go your way - blame the fans !
4)when that doesn’t work - blame the ref !
5)when that doesn’t work - blame your skipper!
MM but you are running out of people to blame - there was one guy winning the headers on Tues in both defence and attack and he was subsituted with minutes to go - sorry MM your error of judgement not your skipper’s.
Good to see they care. Clubs up and down the country have these sort of things, Arsenal who have just knocked out reigning Champion League winners Milan, had a player head butt another a few weeks ago.
And Chelsea still on for the treble had their captain and first tema coach involved in a barney, again just a few days ago.
It happens get over it.
“Taxi for McCarthy”
So they should have a go! If a goal in the 94 minute means nothing to you then you should leave the club. Support the team stop moaning!
Andy 33 - Seriously funny mate - too good for the likes of this lot who will just call you an armchair nuggett (or whatever the latest Mickism is).
The fat lady aint singing, but she is in the bathroom gargling!!!!!!
34 Andy - Spot on!
no 34. Great post, very funny.
I cannot speak for others but I have never called McCarthy ‘Magic Mick’!
When he first arrived at the club I gave him the chance to make his mark which he did last season but this season has turned into a pantomime with McCarthy being the chief member, the performing clown!
My patience has long run out and I await the day when McCarthy leaves this club and we bring in a manager who knows what he is doing and can manage people without causing eruptions left, right and centre!
well well well thats all we need a furious bust up between a player and the manager the unrest at wolves is getting worse and worse but how the manager can lay the blame on one player is beyond me when there was enough players in the area to defend the corner get it sorted mick and dont drop breen for god sake and make things worse?hopefully dynamo wolf it will galvanise the squad because if it goes the other way and tears it apart we are in big trouble
This is not what we want to hear. There were loads of goals scored in the last minute of games on Tuesday and it is a sickener for any team. I am sure all the players were gutted on Tuesday. Yes we should be able to defend a lead 3 minutes from time but what is the point of Mick bollocking everyone except himself. He separates himself from team performances as if his weird team selections are nothing to do with him. Morgan says we are all in it together and if we stick together we will succeed, so SM why don’t you tell Mick to support the players instead of throwing his toys out of the pram all the time.
I fear for where we are headed and feel that things have not been good at the Mol between players and Mick for some time. Too many players picked and dropped, no idea what the best team is, youngsters loaned out, no winger cover for either wing, the Sunderland factor, I could go on.
Poor performances are as much down to tactics, preparation and motivation as anything else, and losing your rag all the time just kills confidence and builds up resentment and discontent in the team. Take some responsibilty Mick. Don’t you think 21000 for a night match shows the fans are still behind the team, the question is are you?
39.I like the comparison you make with the problems at Wolves with those at Arsenal and Chelsea.I should keep off the Bathams mate.
why isnt this kept behind closed doors ? ive totally lost it with this idiot, please please please mr morgan see sense and get rid. Look on the bright side even breen is a nugget
JUST GO
andy 34.nice one lmao
Interesting scenario here. Breen has earned alot of peoples respect after saying publicly that the fans have every right to air their grievences only a couple of weeks ago. This happened a few days after MM amd bothroyd had publicly blamed the fans for this appaling excuse for a season. The expression borrowed time springs to mind MM lost the fans a long time ago, losing his bessie mate breen is a massive blow and it’s only a matter of time before morgan has seen all he needs to see I suspect.
12.abdonwolf
…………..boom!
Who the bloke in charge of PR at the temple. Keep it under wraps…please
35 Brummierob
Was attempting to be ironic !
Often fall out with Mrs sandwich but we usually kiss and make up. Having said that I’m pretty sure she would have defended that corner better!
Just heard Mad Mick said the Tea Lady and Laundry People are to blame for the Team selections,
and poor performance. Tell you this gets better, they will make a TV soap out of this,
its riveting entertainment. P.S Mad Micks just blamed the Mol Band, They were also crap so I was told.
You are now a Laughing stock. Still you have got a great Mananger, give him more time.
Baggies love MM and good old Jez I am sure they are WBA fans.
Happy Days WW. Come and get your Early Bird
It’s time for Mick to leave town and take his
vitamin “I” pills with him along with his temper & ego.
This type of combination rarely if ever works.
I for one would be upset if there wasn’t a dressing room bust up after giving away a soft goal
in the 94th min or isn’t it allowed to show any passion anymore?
Whatever goes on at WWFCi will always be a HAPPY DINGLE NOT A SAD MOWNBURY BOGGIE
GOOD NEWS ALL ROUND. This sort of episode could be a blessing in disguise. Witnessing two of the most senior men at the club locking horns should be seen as a lesson to some of the younger, “nicey nice” players at the club. They should be aware of how much it should means and how much it should hurt. If only the likes of Henry, Edawrds, Potter, etc showed that much passion on tuesday. Infact if only us fans showed as much passion.
34. Andy
Very good, very funny and worryingly accurate!
I nominate you for post of the year!
Nah, we don’t need a center half, lets get 7 strikers instead
Simon
Instead of having a go at Breen he should be having a go at those who were showboating all the way back to give the corner away
GOOD TO SEE MICK CARES!
lots of passion off the pitch !!!!!!!!!!!!
but with the exception of elliot and edwards where was this passion on the pitch on tuesday
long time since i have been to a match but i have never seen a wolves side so disinterested, lacking in confidence and lacking in ideas. Memories of graham taylor teams but at least they used the wings more.
I have been told that tuesday was an average performance i would hate to see what bad was.
also guys ….
anybody notice SEB only really burst into life when kyle went off (nothing against kyle he didnt ask to be signed just dont think he is a solution … maybe a last 5/10 mins target man)
34. Andy
Great posting, I wonder if McCarthy will get another management position after this farce?
Sounds like Breen has had it for the rest of the season. Not to worry mate, it all over anyway and there won’t be many supporters at the remaining games.
No doubt Moxey will try and drum it up, but everybody who was at that game knows that the season is over. In which case, Mr Morgan you can get rid of MM now!
Great post by Andy but anyone watching the TV the night after will spot that Darren Potter failed to follow Jason Euell for the equlising goal. I also think that Neil Collins deserves a little more praise than he gets but he’s clearly nervous about playing at home - watch him away ! Compare him with Darren Ward and you’ll find that Collins is a far better header of the ball.
Dressing room bust ups always happen, even after wins so let’s stop all this anti MM stuff. He’s doing a great job, can’t anybody see that we now have enough points to aviod relegation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We know it’s all over for McCarthy because Moxey is now getting himself out of the way of the bullets. He does this everytime!
How did this news leak out unless Moxey authorised it?
OUT OF DARKNESS COMETH PAUL INCE!
Happy_baggie: No. 42. Why am I not surprised you have a fat lady in your bathroom gargling!!!!
Sorry, MM is right its injury time, the Captain should be making sure everyone is marked for the corner, schoolboy stuff
Spot on Mick
You heard it here first!
The players revolt at Wolves has been put down by Moxey promising the players that they would use a computer system and they would all be rotated on a regular basis, and everybody would get to play just as much as anyone else.
When asked if that meant some players would have to play out of position, Moxey replied “Yes, but your used to that anyway…”
Freddie Eastwood asked if this included him as well, just to be asked what his name was.
Meanwhile, MM is happy, because now he gets the teams he would have picked anyway, and he does not have to take any blame.
“comparisons with this and Roy Keane are stupid”
Of course it’s nowhere near the same situation, but it just shows that its not the first time there has been severe disagreemenets between the two. As I stated above, Breen supported Keanes case.
“The Wolves boss and his skipper held clear the air talks yesterday, with McCarthy insisting both parties have already put the incident behind them.”
Its too late, the damage is done, the dressing room has been lost.
I dont know what all the fuss is about breen is liable to give a goal away at anytime he should be on his bike with MM and JM.
To all baggie fans… “HE WHO LAUGHS FIRST LAUGHS LAST”… Enjoy it while you can because you have a shock comming your way
Oh bugger, it just gets worse. Please can we finish the season now?
What a conundrum:
Rally behind the team to get us into the playoffs and keep this idiot Mccarthy for ANOTHER YEAR…
Damn man. Is there another option.
My solution:
Morgan announces that there will be changes made at season end, in no uncertain terms that will mean the SACKING OF MCCARTHY.
This gives the entire Wolves faithful a huge sigh of relief, the magnitude of the exhales air which causes a high pressure system to appear from nowhere and we are graced with 6 months of glorious sunny weather
Wolves go on a fantastic run (there is undoubted quality in the side - and potent if used correctly) and finish the season off on a high, ready for the assault on 2009.
Give Wolves a chance - Get rid of Mick
COME ON YOU WOLVES
first the fans, now micks lost the dressing room, what next… the promotion race???
tonymo - the passion should be shown on the field
it’s not good seeing two people who have been friends for a long time in the footy business bee in a big bust up but unfortunately these things happen and yes of course big mac was angry that his team didnt get the job done but you know the championship is like a rollercoaster it has twists and turns and u never know whats going to happen so and i hope they will but that behind them now and focus on the remaining that the wolves themselves have got lefted and people might think we shuld have won that but wins are wins loses are loses and draw are draws and thats the way it goes can’t except to win every single game you play so yh that’s footy i still believe we can make the playoffs and us wolves will try and give the team all the support they need so i’m never ever going to stop believing in wolves and i really do hope they make the playoffs but will see what happens up the wolves and i hope they get back on track breen and big mac and they focus on winning the games they have lefted like i say and make an impact on the teams they have lefted by scoring goals and shocking everyone person in the world today so come on you wolves and wolves fans don’t hate wolves i dont anyway the wembley dream is still alive!!!!!
`Oh, the passion, the passion`. It does show how much both care and is a very common occurence in all teams apart from those too impassioned to care. Non story used by MM haters to beat him with. I am not an MM hater or lover, just one of the almost silent majority who hope for better team selection and tactics at times; quite a lot of times actually. Out of the changing room cometh fight…
How can anyone have a go at Breen after the way he has played this year.
Ok, so he was at fault but I bet he already knew it and he didn’t need Mick to have a go at him. And how come the incident got out into the papers…
I have a hunch that Mick is losing the dressing room and it becomes even more important that we get on a good run. A few wins will calm everyone down and all of a sudden everything will be fine.
It is getting depressing reading the ‘nugget posts’. Come on lads. weve got Mick to the season end so lets get behind him and the lads. we’re all disappointed after a Summer of great expectations - and it doesn’t help to see clubs like Bristol and Stoke doing so well on little cash.
But we are getting better and that’s all we can expect.
34 ANDY Very funny post but very naughty…
34: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Didn’t Butler and Ince come to blows. Then wolves went unbeaten for 20 odd games under Jones?
72 Seawolf said: Mar 6th, 2008 at 3:52 pm Sorry, MM is right its injury time, the Captain should be making sure everyone is marked for the corner, schoolboy stuff
Spot on Mick
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Not quite spot on though was he as you should know, breen was not captain nor to blame for the 2nd goal it was karl “fall over the ball” henry who was captain and star player potter who failed to jump for the ball and put a challenge in.
If only we’d would show a quarter this much fight on the pitch we’d be in the top two!!
No-Hopers and I aint talking about the club!!
get a grip all of you.
great post ANDY 34,now somebody put a tune to it and it’ll live longer than the batti brothers song,weve got to laugh or we’d definitly cry with what we’ve been served up with this season.on tuesday I was listening to the match online and 1 min into extra time was just about to email a mate to say crap match but we’ll take the 3 points and we gave away the corner.needless to say I immediatly started to delete the email address as I knew what would happen.and I was right.thanks for cheering me up andy,at least I can relax and enjoy my weekend.the only positive thing was I could say to the saints fans down here “we always play bad against the lower sides”right now I’ve got that off my chest CMON YE WOLVES…
what next? thats all we need, a lovers tiff in the middle of the season!
Cue more negativity!
MM did not release this and whoever is responsible should go.
A manager who actually cares and shows emotion behind a locked dressing room door - a hideous crime showing commitment and anger? Alex Ferguson would never do that?
MM may eventually be found wanting but when you all have ago because he shows passion it just shows you will all have ago at him for anything and its simply not constructive!
If this type of stuff didn’t happen, I’d actually be quite worried. At least this shows they want to do the job BUT could it be the pressure is getting to everyone. It comes to something tho that goals are given away by sloppy mistakes. The players do let MM down. Not all the time as team selections can be baffling but when that happens, you can’t defend them. COME ON WOLVES !!!!
my opinion - that passion is not reflected on the pitch, lets look forward - new manager, new approach, no Breen , craddock, potter, Gray, collins, Henry,ect,ect,
#63
We already have 7 stinkers,and more.
Sorry, #63 i thought you said stinkers,when you actually meant strikers.
Still, i was close……
34. Andy
Great posting, I wish it wasn’t so close to the truth!
To be quite fair i wish MM kicked the lazy, slow piece of garbage out of the club.
MMs got 2 start buying players oher than Sunderland rejects and how can he not
play Freddy after all he comes on with 10 mins to go in evry game and
shines!! MM has just forked out 1.5 million for him and i cant see Morgan accepting this
71,andy thats no fat lady it’s hartson did’nt you know happy boggie goes on holiday to brighton.
71,andy thats no fat lady is hrtson in a dress,and happy boggie goes to brighton for is holidays
ladiesssssssss.