McGeeney critical of ‘bad rap’ for Donegal

Kieran McGeeney has hit out at what he claims to be the "bad rap" afforded to Jim McGuinness’s Donegal and compared criticisms of perceived defensiveness by some pundits to those shipped by his own Armagh side during their Noughties heydays.

It was, all in all, a typically forthright chat with the recently installed Armagh manager who spoke for half-an-hour — a considerable amount of time in a media setting — during yesterday’s launch of next month’s Asian Gaelic Games with First Derivatives PLC.

“The amount of abuse that they get compared to other teams…,” McGeeney said of McGuinness’s Donegal. “I just think that happens because we have people in the media from certain areas so if someone plays well against them that’s puke football or bad football or unbelievable football. I can’t see that.