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Sat 11 Nov 2002Mick deserves a lot more creditIreland fan Andy Pollak on the good, the bad and the ugly days of the Mick McCarthy era.For a people who are supposed to have long historical memories, we Irish forget some things very easily. Before Jack Charlton arrived in the mid-1980s the Republic of Ireland team had been in the boondocks of international soccer for most of the previous 60 years.