It’s never nice when a popular gaffer gets the boot, least of all when he provides so much comedy YouTube gold as Mick McCarthy.

Thankfully it’s impossible to keep a good man down and we’re sure Mick will be back prowling on a touchline very soon ordering his full-back in his no-nonsense Yorkshire timbre to ‘knock it to the big man’.

Until then, as that annoying toothy bint from Big Brother used to say, Mick here are some of your best bits….