IT’S FIVE YEARS this year since Donegal brought Sam Maguire to The Hills under the stewardship of Jim McGuinness.
The defensive system he stuck by, although criticised by some, brought the Tír Chonaill men to All-Ireland glory in 2012, and back to the final in 2014.
Since then, his successor Rory Gallagher hasn’t been able to reach the same heights, making it as far as the quarter-finals before getting knocked out last year.
Drastic changes have happened in the northwest of the country since that August defeat to Dublin, however.
Many of the soldiers of 2012 are gone, and the defense-heavy style of play appears to have left with them.
Can Rory Gallagher steer this youthful side to silverware this year?
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That’s a huge blow to United’s europa league hopes
Yeah focus on the negative about Jose instead of the match result and performance typical.
@Paul: yeah, not one positive adjective about United’s performance in the whole article.
Bizarre that Mourinho was booed by the Chelsea fans. I missed portions of the match so might be missing something…
@James Clancy: it’s Chelsea fans, what do you expect?!!
@James Clancy: United fans will boo him yet. It’s his scorched earth departures that cause it really.
@Brian Curtin: small club Chelsea
Chelsea are a skummy club for the way they taunted Mourinho like that.would not expect anything more from the Chelsea blues Brothers supporters club.
They should have let him go. I doubt he’d be able to punch his way out of a paper bag and could do with a good slap.
He was actually heading to the exit before the final whistle only the stewards made him stay till the end
that was a real ‘hold me back…please hold me back’ he’d have had his arse handed to him if he’d got near that guy
Good result for city
Great crack!