Victorious Tyrone manager Feargal Logan was denied entry to the Tipperary dressing-room after Saturday's controversial All-Ireland U21FC final.

It's tradition for a manager to visit the opposing dressing-room and say a few words after a game but, angered by what they believe was cynical play by Tyrone in the closing stages of the Parnell Park clash, Logan was advised by Tipp officials not to enter the changing-room.

The Stewartstown man, whose brother and Tyrone team doctor Michael helped to resusciate a spectator who had suffered a heartattack during the half-time interval, didn't want to make an issue of the incident when he spoke to the media afterwards.

"I think they've gone a bit extreme. It's obviously raw at the moment. But I hope relations between Tyrone and Tipperary football don't get to that pitch when we have guys putting people out of dressing-rooms," he said.

"They felt we coached a certain way, that's their prerogative, let them have their thoughts. But I spoke to the chairman, I said I was very disappointed."

Logan vehemently denied suggestions that his players had been instructed to be cynical.

"I can promise you this, I have told our men never to 'sledge' or talk to people. I have told them not to conduct themselves cynically. There were boys there buying frees on both sides there today probably and I am just very disappointed that in the GAA world something like that would happen.

"I don't want to make a major fuss because I have been the subject of major fusses this last week or two.

"Not often it happens in Gaelic football but I am not making a deal, I thought it was a sporting game of football, maybe others see different. It's a sore thing to lose an All-Ireland final," added the U21 boss, who lost All-Ireland finals during his playing career with Tyrone and Stewartstown Harps in 1995 and 2005 respectively.

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