McGee out to stop Tyrone knocking them off perch

The bubbles in Donegal’s champagne hadn’t even had the chance to go flat before the talk was about Tyrone.

Whilst Jim McGuinness made sure to let his panel enjoy the celebrations having lifted Sam Maguire for only the second time in their history, there was to be a line drawn in the Dubai sand, once they touched down from their end of season holiday.

There has, one suspects, been a circle scribbled around May 26 on McGuinness’s calendar, whether at home in Glenties or at his apartment in Glasgow, for some time.