{"id":580061,"date":"2021-01-22T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=580061"},"modified":"2021-01-22T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T20:50:07","slug":"cardiff-city-announce-mick-mccarthy-as-new-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/22\/cardiff-city-announce-mick-mccarthy-as-new-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff City Announce Mick McCarthy as New Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/cardiff-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Cardiff City<\/a> have today announced that Mick McCarthy has become the Bluebirds&#8217; new manager.<\/p>\n<h2>Cardiff Appoint Mick McCarthy as New Boss<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CardiffCity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CardiffCity<\/a> is pleased to confirm the appointment of Mick McCarthy as the Club&#8217;s First Team Manager for the remainder of the 2020\/21 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TBDCFKmG4R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/TBDCFKmG4R<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CityAsOne?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CityAsOne<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q7DYobG84u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Q7DYobG84u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cardiff City FC (@CardiffCityFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CardiffCityFC\/status\/1352715252954243072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>McCarthy Replaces Recently Released Neil Harris<\/h3>\n<p>The Bluebirds have been without a boss since they <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/21\/cardiff-city-part-ways-with-neil-harris\/\" target=\"_self\">sacked Neil Harris<\/a> and have been quick to appoint <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/22\/mick-mccarthy-set-to-take-the-reigns-at-cardiff-city\/\" target=\"_self\">McCarthy as his successor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harris had been appointed to the job back in November 2019 and started his Cardiff career well, taking them to the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing out and failing to secure promotion, it was deemed a successful season for the Bluebirds. However, instead of building on the promotion push, the club have instead sunk to 15th-place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/league-football\/championship\/\" target=\"_self\">Championship<\/a> table.<\/p>\n<p>Losing five games back to back in the league was the final straw for the former Millwall boss and he was sacked.<\/p>\n<h3>McCarthy Has Championship Experience<\/h3>\n<p>Now, the Bluebirds will be hoping Mick McCarthy is instead the right man to lead the club forward and get them back towards the top end of the Championship table.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy is a seasoned veteran when it comes to the second tier of English football, having managed Ipswich Town and won league titles with Sunderland and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/wolves-club-analysis-news-fixtures\/\" target=\"_self\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He even has international management experience with the Republic of Ireland national team and most recently he was given a chance in the Cypriot league in charge of APOEL.<\/p>\n<h3>Cardiff Hope Mick McCarthy is Right Man for the Job<\/h3>\n<p>Now, the manager is set to test his luck once again in the second tier and will be hoping that he is certainly the right man for the job, agreeing to a deal until the end of the year with the side.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the new job, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CardiffCityFC\/status\/1352716659279208449\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McCarthy said<\/a>: &#8220;I want to get the Club back to winning games &amp; get smiles back on the players&#8217; faces. If we do that, then we&#8217;ll get smiles back on the fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a good squad of players and I&#8217;m looking forward to getting down to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"MfqopO8RQDN8NUZnyunqFg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1209137348\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'MfqopO8RQDN8NUZnyunqFg',sig:'tP5WwBHi_8ZiQT_1iDfZIpDLjOkZkKVQY423zeDnaf4=',w:'594px',h:'392px',items:'1209137348',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff City have today announced that Mick McCarthy has become the Bluebirds&#8217; new manager. Cardiff Appoint Mick McCarthy as New Boss #CardiffCity is pleased to confirm the appointment of Mick McCarthy as the Club&#8217;s First Team Manager for the remainder of the 2020\/21 season. \u27a1\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/TBDCFKmG4R#CityAsOne pic.twitter.com\/Q7DYobG84u \u2014 Cardiff City FC (@CardiffCityFC) January 22, 2021 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3562,"featured_media":580111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2509,33,32,30],"tags":[2748,38,7798,197,168,5036,7797,2030,2886,43,136],"class_list":["post-580061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiff-city","category-championship","category-league-football","category-news","tag-cardiff","tag-cardiff-city","tag-cardiff-manager","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-manager","tag-mccarthy-cardiff","tag-mick-mccarthy","tag-neil-harris","tag-news","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}