There are vacancies in Gaelic football and then there are vacancies – Tyrone is one of those.
Feargal Logan and Brian Dooher did everything they could as players, and then as managers of the U21 team and the senior side.
Losing to Dublin by 21 points on the final day was a gut-check for some fringe players, and they had the traditional post-league departure of a number of panellists. But what drove both was a love and devotion for Tyrone that bordered, some would say overstepped the mark, on insanity.This is a man who chose to walk down the aisle in crutches on his wedding day, as he wouldn’t postpone a close-season operation on his ankle to make it back in time for the start of a league campaign.
That they lost that final, and he was long gone by the time 2003 rolled around, left a hole that he couldn’t fill. He managed the U21 side to the 2015 All Ireland title.
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