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<strong>Former Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy has wasted no time taking up a new role - as editor of the prestigious Suffolk Gazette newspaper.</strong>

Super Mick says he has enjoyed his time in Suffolk so much, despite a tricky relationship with local football supporters, that he was keen to stay.



"The offer from the Suffolk Gazette management was too good to refuse," McCarthy, 59, said.

"I'll admit to not knowing the first thing about journalism or running a newspaper, but if former Chancellor George Osborne can be made editor of the London Evening Standard, then I can take on the Suffolk Gazette.

"The owner has made only one condition - that I do not start calling his readers numbskulls.

"He also wants the publication to go on the attack and be unpredictable, so I'm not now not so sure why he asked me."

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A spokesman for the Suffolk Gazette said: "We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Mick McCarthy, who has ingratiated himself with the Suffolk community.

"Mick has shown he can run a football club on a shoestring, and our newspaper is built on a foundation of pints at The Greyhound and little else.

"It should be a match made in heaven." 