Mickey Harte: 'I don't see the point in a fuss' says Derry boss after win over Tyrone

Dooher captained Tyrone to All-Ireland success in 2005 and 2008 under Harte

Derry manager Mickey Harte says he doesn't understand "the fuss" about him facing Tyrone after his side beat the Red Hands 1-12 to 0-9 at Celtic Park.

The build-up to Sunday's game was dominated by commentary on Harte, who won three All-Ireland titles with Tyrone, and is now managing their fiercest rivals.

But Harte was unfazed by the talk and was focused on the task at hand.

"A lot of people make more of it than is necessary," he said.

"I don't see any big deal in it. I just came along here to manage Derry as I have done for the last four or five games, and it just happens to be Tyrone who were the opposition.

"They have their own set-up, they are on their own journey, I am on this journey now."

Harte continued: "It is not a unique phenomenon. I have seen plenty of managers go from their own county to other counties for years.

"I have seen plenty of our own county men going to other counties and there was no particular fuss about it. I really don't see the point of a fuss now."

'We're not getting carried away'

Glass scored to help Derry to a well-deserved victory at Celtic Park

A capacity crowd of 11,629 made the journey to Celtic Park for the hotly anticipated clash which failed to live up to the pre-match hype.

The Oak Leafers held a three-point lead at the break in blustery conditions, whilst Tyrone were punished for their inaccuracy as they went 32 minutes without a score either side of the break, hitting 10 wides in the second half.

Ethan Doherty and Cormac Murphy hit 0-6 between them from play with a late lobbed goal from the influential Conor Glass sealing a deserved second Division One win for the hosts.

Whilst pleased with the victory, Harte downplayed the significance of it, pointing to the number of key players who were absent for Tyrone.

"We know Tyrone were missing a host of top class players so we are not getting carried away in thinking that we beat a Tyrone team," insisted Harte.

"We beat a Tyrone team with the players available at the minute and I know of several names that would make a serious change on that team that were not available, so we have to factor that in as well.

"We did not use the breeze too well in the first half but we did good in the second half to make the game to some degree comfortable for ourselves."

Dooher rues missed chances

Dooher was without a number of key players such as Conn Kilpatrick and Peter Harte for the Derry clash

"Tyrone joint-manager Brian Dooher was left to rue his side's wastefulness in forward areas, which he believed cost them the game.

"We had a reasonable enough first half, we were still in the game anyway," he said.

"Second half we came out, had the first few chances and didn't take them.

"I think we were an author of our own downfall with the shots that we had," admitted Dooher.

"We probably got a bit nervous and snapped at a few shots, our shot selection and decision-making could have been better towards the end of it, but I couldn't fault the effort in general.

"It was a difficult wind. Derry played well, running the ball with hard running, and we didn't cope with that as well as we should have in the second half.

"We just failed to pick up men at times coming through, it's something we have to learn from."