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Nottingham Forest owners Abdulaziz Al Hasawi (left) and Fawaz Al Hasawi (right) listen at a press conference. Rowan Staszkiewicz/EMPICS Sport

McCarthy turns down the chance to interview for Forest job

The former Wolves boss was the favourite to take over from Steve Cotterill at the Championship club.

MICK McCARTHY HAS ruled himself out of the running to take over the vacant managerial position at Nottingham Forest.

The former Ireland manager has been out of work since leaving Wolves last February but reportedly turned down the chance of a former interview with the club’s new owners, the Al-Hasawi family from Kuwait.

This followed an initial telephone conversation.

McCarthy was seen as the favourite to take over from Steve Cotterill, sacked immediately after the takeover went through last week, having guided both Sunderland and Wolves to promotions in 2005 and 2009.

Peterborough’s Darren Ferguson and former Forest midfielder Roy Keane, a good friend of McCarthy’s, are now high in the betting to take on the job.

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    Mute Irishoversea
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    Jul 30th 2014, 4:43 PM

    The FAI would love him..

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    Jul 30th 2014, 4:18 PM

    Sounds a nice lad, but it says a lot about the average footballer that it is so noteworthy

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    Jul 30th 2014, 5:25 PM

    I gave up my seat on the LUAS today. Where’s my bleedin’ article?

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    Jul 30th 2014, 11:02 PM

    It’s not even newsworthy though. Complete non-story.

    Some footballers are creeps, many aren’t. They’re just people. In life the silent majority are the ones we most resemble but find boring as media figures. The rest are heroes or villains, whose merits or demerits are exaggerated, mainly because we like it that way. Someone like Aaron Ramsey or David Meyler being a nice bloke isn’t a news story. Someone famous being a tool in a nightclub is.

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    Mute Dublin Red
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    Jul 30th 2014, 4:42 PM

    Louis C K has a routine about giving his first class seat to a soldier. He only thought about doing it, he didn’t actually do it. Despite this he felt very proud of himself for just thinking about it.

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    Jul 30th 2014, 7:31 PM

    Does this not say more about Liverpool as a club that would book them different seats

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    Jul 30th 2014, 5:13 PM

    Wasn’t Ryanair so?

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    Jul 30th 2014, 9:16 PM

    I’m sure the young staff member escorted him to orgasmville later on though.

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    Jul 30th 2014, 6:26 PM

    Liverpool propaganda again.

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    Jul 30th 2014, 5:10 PM

    w@nker giving up his seat

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    Mute Irishoversea
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    Jul 30th 2014, 5:15 PM

    True he’s after digging a hole for himself there as it will be expected every week now..

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    Mute BYE BYE !
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    Jul 30th 2014, 9:51 PM

    Blah blah she must have been good looking , only one thing on his mind !

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    Jul 30th 2014, 11:56 PM

    Why not get two first class tickets.

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    Jul 30th 2014, 8:34 PM

    Following in roys footsteps

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