It can get worse: Blackpool’s latest defeat recalls Mick McCarthy meme

<p>Optimistic in August under Steve Bruce, Blackpool are now managerless and 23rd in League One after Stockport’s win</p><p>The Mick McCarthy “it can” meme is known far and wide as social media shorthand for woeful underperformance, although the full context is not.</p><p>When McCarthy was infamously asked if a miserable run of one win in 17 games could continue and issued the deadpan response <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kou3MoGuvEM">“it can”</a>, he was the Blackpool manager struggling through his ill-fated 2023 spell.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/12/stockport-1-0-blackpool-relegation-fears-after-steve-bruce-sacking">Continue reading...</a>