Tommy Martin: Thou art Jim McGuinness, and upon this rock we shall rebuild our church...

Such is the aura that surrounds the Glenties man, he could not have generated more fervour had he ridden into the Donegal GAA Centre of Excellence on a donkey, followed by a trail of newly healed lepers - or as we in Donegal like to call them, Tyrone people

MESSIAH: Jim McGuinness with his son Mark as they prepared for an All-Ireland final in 2014.

There’s been a lot of Second Coming talk around the return of Jim McGuinness as Donegal manager this week.

Big Jim lends himself to that sort of thing, more than you would get, say, with Roy Hodgson going back to Crystal Palace. Mainly because he once had a beard and long hair and, if you remember what Donegal were like before his first spell, is famous for performing miracles.