Mick McCarthy calls Piers Morgan ‘a w*nker’ after receiving criticism in feud back in 2009

Mick McCarthy calls Piers Morgan ‘a w*nker’ after receiving criticism in a feud which began way back in 2009.

Piers Morgan still holds a grudge after McCarthy rested 10 Wolves players for the game against Manchester United, who won the game 3-0.

McCarthy decided to mix up the team following a 1-0 victory at Tottenham three days prior, then the week after defeat to United, won 2-0 over Burnley.

Arsenal supporter Pier Morgan was unhappy that McCarthy’s Wolves side helped United, with Arsenal held to a 1-1 draw at Burnley a day later.

Chelsea were 1st with 37 points from 16 games, Man Utd 2nd with 37 points from 17 games, Aston Villa were 3rd with 32 points from 17 games, and Arsenal sat in 4th place with 31 points by had played 15 games.

In the end, that season ended with Chelsea crowned champions with 86 points, Man Utd were 2nd with 85 points, Arsenal finished 3rd with 75 points. Wolves ended up 15th, 8 points above the drop zone, Burnley, Hull and Portsmouth were relegated.

😳 “Now I know what Roy Keane’s problem was!”

Mick McCarthy CLASHES with Piers for criticising him in 2009 for dropping 10 Wolves players vs Man United, gifting them the PL win.

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Video time-stamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:04 The panel react to a hard-fought 2-1 victory for England against Norway and Tuchel and Bellingham’s post match comments
02:28 Piers, Simon and John have heated debate over whether Gabriel Clarke’s questions to Bellingham and Tuchel were fair
15:23 John Terry on how England can deal with Argentina and Messi
18:02 Should Thomas Tuchel start Dan Burn and Djed Spence?
20:03 The panel discuss Argentina’s players singing songs about the Falklands and the old rivalry between England and Argentina
23:45 John reacts to an article claiming John Stones is England’s greatest centre back since Bobby Moore
25:52 Mick McCarthy joins the show and weighs in on the Tuchel-Bellingham disagreement
34:00 Mick McCarthy call Piers a wanker over Piers’ historic criticism of McCarthy resting 10 players against Manchester United
36:38 Mick on Roy Keane and Saipan
38:05 Mick McCarthy on modern football, the lack of crosses and sensitive young players
44:01 The panel focus on how England can deal with Lionel Messi and give their predictions for the semi-finals

Piers: I have one question for you because I’ve always respected you hugely genuinely as a manager.

Mick: Except, except when I dropped 10 players.

Piers: Yes.

Mick: At Wolverhampton.

Piers: Yeah. Well, that was

Mick: You did say something that I was particularly unhappy about.

Piers: Well, I thought it was shocking.

Mick: Yeah. Go on.

Piers: Well, what what was your problem with what I said? You must have known I was right.

Mick: You’re never right, mate. You just you just antagonise people with your comments, which you’re doing on this show quite clearly. So, when you said it, Yeah. my job is to win games.

Piers: Yeah.

Mick: We went to Spurs the Saturday before. We won 1-0 with about 35% possession. We’ve got Manchester United on the Tuesday. I went there. I dropped 10 players. I have a squad of 22. If I’m a manager, it’s my right to manage that team how I see and get results.

Piers: And it’s my right as an Arsenal fan. You were directly impacting by your cowardice to call you out on it…

Mick: Because you weren’t good enough because you weren’t good enough to win the title and said Alex won it again and he you weren’t good enough. So you blame me which is which is real bad on my part

Piers: Now I know what Roy Keane’s problem was.

Mick: Yeah. Oh yeah.

Piers: No, no, no. Just to be clear, by dropping 10 players, you you let United walk all over you, which had a direct impact on my team’s chances of winning the league. I thought that was an appalling abrogation of your duty as a manager to entertain the fans with the best available team.

Mick: Let me clear you up. My duty was to beat Burnley on the Saturday. And we did. And from Tottenham away, Manchester United away, and Burnley at home, I took six points out of nine. I thought it was a fantastic management piece of work!

Piers: But you still flew the white flag a surrender.

Mick: No… We stayed up.

Piers: Well…

Mick: We stayed up. The club got 100 million. My chairman at the time wasn’t happy when we got beat at Manchester United, but when they got the 100 million at the end of the season, let me tell you, he’s deliriously happy.

Piers: How would you have felt if it had been completely reversed and Arsenal had a game which if they won it meant you would have stayed up right and we rested the entire first team squad and got beaten 2-0. How would you have felt then? Be honest.

Mick: I’m going to moan like a b*tch like

Piers: Exactly. Exactly.

Simon Jordan: There it is. There’s the hypocrisy of football.

Piers: There we are. Right there. We’re all hypocrites.

Mick: I’ll be all honest. Change that subject quite clearly.

Piers: You know what? I think I believe strongly every fan has exactly the same right to have opinions about the game as does every manager as does every player. And and we live in a country of free democratic debate and free speech and everyone should be allowed to say what they think. And if people get their little feelings hurt because they don’t agree with it, well, tough titty. We’re allowed to have an opinion.

Mick: Absolutely.

Piers: And I think that you and I have had a frank exchange here and I think we’ve reached a point of what I’ve seen.

Mick: I’ve been waiting how many years? 15 years to say it. You know, I’ve been waiting 15 years to call you a w*nker, so happy days.

Here’s how fans reacted as Mick McCarthy calls Piers Morgan ‘a w*nker’ after receiving criticism in a feud back in 2009..

@nickgoff79: Good on Mick. He got fined for something that happens regularly now. He was a visionary. Beat Spurs before & Burnley after that Man Utd game with shoestring budget outfit. Nothing like the money that was spent next time we went up. Keep stuffing it up the bullshitters like Morgan

@aliward96: I’ll never hear a bad word against Mick McCarthy

@betdaqsports: He very honest here but they beat Burnley so Mick utterly vindicated

@BrooksDai: McCarty did his job tbf needed 3pts v Burnley not 3pts v Utd as he said. Lost to Utd but beat Burnley job done. Piers crying because Arsenal lost the title and he doesn’t really understand football

@lukebailey90: I love Mick McCarthy. He is still my favourite Wolves manager and it’ll take something pretty special to knock him off that perch.

@JamesBeck_5: Love Big Mick but I agree with Piers here. Throwing in the towel basically and playing a second string team because you were probably going to lose any way is the wrong mentality. Rolling over for them

@DemonDays87: McCarthy is right. He’s got zero obligation to Arsenal whatsoever. You win the league based on your own performances, not other teams

@433Podcast: When @piersmorgan laugh like an ixdiot you know thats a nervous laughter coz he was wrong

@Gordo9020: Mick was spot on. Had 3 games in a week. Rested his first 11 for the middle game and he won the other two. 6 points from 9. His loyalty was to Wolves, not Arsenal or “entertaining the fans’