Peter Canavan: Defeat wouldn’t bring curtain down on Mickey Harte era

Tyrone football legend Peter Canavan has dismissed suggestions that the curtain will fall on the Mickey Harte era if Tyrone suffer a fourth consecutive Ulster championship defeat to Donegal on Sunday.

Tyrone last won the Anglo-Celt Cup in 2010 and it is now eight-years since the Red Hand county claimed the championship scalp of neighbours Donegal.

A period of transition was ushered in by the retirements of Conor Gormley, Stephen O’Neill and Martin Penrose during the off-season and talk of Harte’s red juggernaut grinding to a standstill was further fuelled by the county’s relegation to Division 2 of the league this spring.