The title of Joe's latest Free State episode might lead you to believe it's about Jim McGuinness, but it's essentially just Joe using Jim as the vehicle to pursue his personal vendetta against Mickey Harte.
Joe spent years making fairly bitter attacks on McGuinness, auccusing him repeatedly of having "destroyed the game". A few months ago he wrote a column blasting the extreme and unfair expectations McGuinness places on players in their personal lives in pursuit of success, and only a few months ago, termed him "the the dark destroyer of gaelic football" who was about to unleash his latest "virus".
One victory from Jim over Mickey Harte later, and we get a podcast telling us everthing that is wrong about Harte as a man and a manager, and how McGuinness is the greatest manager in the game and absolutely lauding how he man-manages his players.
The episode also contains Joe telling us how he told txt a friend before the Derry Donegal game to predict that Donegal would win using "a ploy to go for lobbed goals when the keeper comes to midfield". Weirdly, he never once made that prediciton in public before the game. Just told us about how he predicted it in the aftermath and how obvious it was.
Joe spent years making fairly bitter attacks on McGuinness, auccusing him repeatedly of having "destroyed the game". A few months ago he wrote a column blasting the extreme and unfair expectations McGuinness places on players in their personal lives in pursuit of success, and only a few months ago, termed him "the the dark destroyer of gaelic football" who was about to unleash his latest "virus".
One victory from Jim over Mickey Harte later, and we get a podcast telling us everthing that is wrong about Harte as a man and a manager, and how McGuinness is the greatest manager in the game and absolutely lauding how he man-manages his players.
The episode also contains Joe telling us how he told txt a friend before the Derry Donegal game to predict that Donegal would win using "a ploy to go for lobbed goals when the keeper comes to midfield". Weirdly, he never once made that prediciton in public before the game. Just told us about how he predicted it in the aftermath and how obvious it was.