Pat McEnaney insists that referee Joe McQuillan won't be influenced by the mind games Jim McGuinness and James Horan have been indulging in ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland SFC quarter-final between Donegal and Mayo.

The Cavan official will take charge of what has become something of a grudge match after McGuinness claimed Donegal are being "roughed up" by other teams, and Horan hit back by saying the All-Ireland champions have set the bar in terms of physicality.

Speaking to the Irish Daily Star, National Referees Committee chairman McEnaney stressed: "We don't get involved in that stuff. This thing about what went on before.

"We'd always be telling the referee never go into a game with preconceptions of what happened two years ago. Different day, different game." Tweet

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