THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
IPSWICH, England — Struggling second-tier English club Ipswich has hired Mick McCarthy as its new manager, hoping he can guide a third team to promotion to the Premier League.
Ipswich said Thursday that the former Wolverhampton Wanderers manager has signed a contract that will keep him at the club until 2015. He replaces Paul Jewell, who left last month.
McCarthy guided Sunderland to the Premier League in 2005, and repeated the accomplishment with Wolves in 2009.
McCarthy said that "while the long-term ambition is to take the club back into the Premier League, it’s clear that the first priority is to get some confidence back into the team and start climbing the table."
Ipswich is currently last in the League Championship, and has not won a game since August.