“We were playing Dublin in 1993 and we were staying in the Regency Hotel the night before the league final and the whole team went down to the Cat and Cage pub and had five or six drinks. There was no big talk about it.'
His second tenure as Donegal manager has gotten off to an ideal start with promotion secured as Division Two champions.
Speaking at the recent launch of the Ulster Championship, McGuinness isn’t sure that’s a good thing and admitted that the “rawness” is gone from the modern game."There was a joke going about that players had to give up alcohol for a couple of weeks leading into the Championship and all this type of thing.
“I was speaking to Mickey about it when we came in there and was talking about the Monday club and if you could sort out those boys you’d have an unbelievable team. While McGuinness will be expected to come up with a plan and a strategy to stump Derry at Celtic Park on Saturday, April 20, he sought to taper expectations slightly by stating that he doesn’t feel his job with Donegal has truly started.
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