Jim Gavin v Mickey Harte: A clash of football’s deepest thinkers

Jim Gavin and Mickey Harte will share a championship sideline for the first time in Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final between Dublin and Tyrone. It will be a meeting of equals and, in some ways, opposites.

Six All-Irelands, 10 provincial championships and five Division 1 titles between them. Both influential thinkers but proponents of very different styles of play. The temptation is to sum it up as a clash between attacking and defensive philosophies.

Tempting but far too simplistic.