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<strong>Along with many other publications, supporters' websites and fanzines, we may have given the impression recently that Mick McCarthy was not doing a good job managing Ipswich Town Football Club.</strong>

We now admit that recent results show Mr McCarthy, 58, is in fact a football genius who masterminded an away victory at Aston Villa at the weekend, and a good draw at title-chasing Brighton last night.



The High Court heard today how these excellent displays, coming so soon after an exciting four-goal thriller against an in-form Reading side, confirm the Suffolk Gazette was a little hasty in claiming Mr McCarthy was a dinosaur who might reasonably be sacked.

For example, our story alleging he had told owner Marcus Evans that <a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/sport/tactics-book/">his dog had eaten his tactics book</a> was sheer fantasy and had no foundation whatsoever.

Similarly, our assertion that Mr McCarthy's exploits in the recent transfer window coincided with landing a <a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/sport/mick-mccarthy-bargain-bins/">personal endorsement deal with Bargain Bins Skip Hire</a> was also unfair and misleading.

<center><a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/mick-mccarthy-bargain-bins.jpg"><img src="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/mick-mccarthy-bargain-bins.jpg" alt="Mick McCarthy is the new face of Bargain Bins" width="863" height="602" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5964" /></a><i>Rubbish story: Mick McCarthy and Bargain Bins</i></center><br><br>

We regret other stories, such as our claim that the former Ireland, Sunderland and Wolves boss was going to <a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/sport/lincoln-players-ipswich/">buy the entire Lincoln City team</a> after the non-league outfit dumped Ipswich out of the FA Cup, which was entirely without fact.

As was our report that "gutless" Ipswich could now <a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/sport/ipswich-concentrate-relegation/">concentrate on relegation</a> after that awkward third-round cup defeat.

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Instead, we now acknowledge Mr <a href="https://www.suffolkgazette.com/sport/mick-mccarthy-video/">Mick McCarthy is doing an excellent job</a> at Portman Road, given the somewhat meagre sums being made available to him by Mr Evans, and we look forward to a continued surge up the league table.

By way of compensation for the personal grief and injustice caused, we have agreed to pay a substantial undisclosed sum to a charity of Mr McCarthy's choice - the Suffolk Gazette Beer Fund, which does a terrific job looking after soon-to-be-sacked editors.

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