Tyrone give up on the antics and play it straight

It’s hard to believe. Tyrone 1-21 Donegal 1-12 — and it was a scoreline that flattered Donegal.

If there was one moment that summed up the difference between the two teams yesterday at St Tiernach’s Park then it was this incident:

Ciarán Thompson was on the ball in the middle of the field. There was nobody around him so he just took a leisurely solo. Next thing there were three Tyrone around him, they turned the ball over and Peter Harte kicked a point off his left foot. It showed me how big a transition it will be for this young Donegal team, a team that I had talked up this year.