LONDON -- It is difficult to imagine a coach can be under pressure after his team made a positive impression at the World Cup finals, has lost only three of its last 27 games and just seven of 41 competitive matches during his 6 1/2 years in charge.
Step forward Mick McCarthy of the Republic of Ireland, Europe's longest-serving national coach but whom many Irish observers are delighting in ridiculing.
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