Mickey Harte rubbishes ‘players are slaves’ charge

Mickey Harte has hit out at the suggestion that modern inter-county managers are making unreasonable demands of their players.

In fact, the three-time All-Ireland winning Tyrone manager said his experience is that he regularly has to order over-enthusiastic players to take a break from training.

Harte is the longest serving county football manager having taken over for the 2003 season and acknowledged that ‘the demands have increased to a certain extent’.