CLASSIC CLIPS: How Mick McCarthy Went VIRAL With Just Two Simple Words
That Peter Crouch Podcast
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
FROM THE VAULT: One line. One press conference. One football meme that refuses to die. It can't go on like this, can it?
It can.
In this clip, Mick McCarthy revisits the now-legendary moment that gave us one of football’s most quoted phrases. What started as an honest, off-the-cuff response during a tough run of results quickly became a viral classic — and a brutally accurate summary of life as a football manager.
Mick explains the real meaning behind the words, lifting the lid on the pressure, fatigue, and mental battles that come with managing when results aren’t going your way. From dealing with the media to keeping belief inside the dressing room, this is a candid insight into how quickly things can spiral — and how, sometimes, football just keeps finding new ways to surprise you.
The lads reflect on why the quote struck such a nerve with fans, managers, and players alike, and why it still perfectly captures the chaos, humour, and harsh reality of the game today.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is part of the ACAST creator network. |
| 0:04.5 | Talking about, obviously, things evolving and the game being gone, |
| 0:07.4 | obviously social media, various bits and pieces coming into the world. |
| 0:10.9 | Mick, I've got a touch on the press conference where they ask you. |
| 0:16.9 | It can't go on like this anymore. |
| 0:19.2 | Do you realise how big you are on TikTok? |
| 0:24.6 | Yes. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm six foot one with. I'm sat here or I said on TikTok, but I've been made aware of that. |
| 0:32.5 | Somebody said to me, you've had 8 million views of this. |
| 0:34.8 | I said, what do you mean? I haven't got a clue. |
| 0:37.0 | Somebody asked me to do it, you know. What is it? I've been walking through a of this. I said, what do you mean? I haven't got a clue. Somebody asked me to do it, you know. |
| 0:54.5 | What is it? I'd be walking through a train station. I'm at the train station where I'm in these four teenagers, young ones, like 13, 14, have seen him. They've gone, and I'm there with my grandson, and I'm pushing him around. So I start walking around. They're now wanting to come and speak to me, |
| 0:55.7 | so I'm walking around the station, |
| 0:56.5 | pushing my grandson, |
| 0:54.5 | and eventually to me, |
| 0:56.6 | so I'm walking around the station, pushing my grandson, |
| 0:59.4 | and eventually the cop on to me said, |
| 1:00.7 | is it, make? |
| 1:02.6 | I said, yeah, can we do that video? |
| 1:06.2 | And I said to him, I always said, |
| 1:08.5 | well, 500 odd games as a player, |
| 1:10.9 | a thousand odd as a manager, at last but of course it was |
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