Martin Breheny: Ignore the spoofers hailing Donegal’s win as a Jim McGuinness masterclass
Over-thinking is the new fad in football tactics but it ignores some cold hard realities
It has started already – Jim the genius strikes again. Such has been the avalanche of reverence towards Jim McGuinness since Donegal beat Derry that you might think that he had re-invented the wheel, leaving everyone else to scratch along on Fred Flintstone’s footmobile.
Jimmy’s winning matches is back on radio, superlatives are swirling and there’s hushed anticipation of what intellectually-advanced manoeuvres he will inflict on others.