Mick McCarthy: I have not had it harder than this at Wolves

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Wolves manager Mick McCarthy admits he cannot stop thinking about relegation, even when he goes to the toilet!

The Midlands outfit have faced a season-long battle with the drop and currently sit second bottom of the Premier League with just four games remaining, and McCarthy says his worries are following him everywhere.

“I have sat on the toilet and dwelt on it, and stood at the toilet and dwelt on it. It has never left me,” McCarthy said in an article in The Mirror.

“It’s just that nagging sore, but I have not found a lotion that can salve it.

“We were hopeless at Stoke the other night. Rubbish. The players are angry, disappointed and upset, all those emotions.

“And rightly so, because we were very, very poor.

“Everybody is sore and hurting. We need a win but we need a performance because if we get one of those, we have every chance of winning.

“The players really take it to heart. They are used to better than this. But have a look at the time we went to Liverpool and won and beat Birmingham here and that’s the way they respond. It is always positive.

“And how do you beat Manchester United after you have just lost to a 93rd minute goal at Bolton?”

McCarthy says he has always felt great support from the Wolves supporters and says that they were entitled to show their discontent after the 3-0 defeat by Stoke in their last game.

“I have not had it harder than this at Wolves.

“Chelsea last season was a real bad day because we dropped into the bottom three, but I was as disappointed the other night as I’ve ever been here. The fans were entitled to have a go.

“I always shake the players’ hands after a game and I was walking off at Stoke with the hump and decided that they the fans weren’t driving me down the tunnel.

“I also went to applaud the fans, as I always do, but I’m not sure it was reciprocated or appreciated. The reaction doesn’t bother me because if you get that, you are getting it for a reason. I expect it if we don’t compete.

“I have always had wonderful support here and as long as we stay up, I’m sure I will have that support.”