I don't know about reverse angles, but yes mcgrane had a month's ban lifted on appeal. Mcmenamin also had his ban lifted on appeal for dropping the knee in mcentee, and we don't need a reverse angle to see that was as deliberate as can be. It's safe to say that having a ban lifted on appeal doesn't equate to innocence in the gaa. In any case, regardless of whatever technicality that later got the ban lifted, the reputational damage was done by what people saw on the Sunday game.
Both yourself and Pablo are going on about balance, completely missing the point. Tyrone also have a bad reputation, that is the balance. There's chatter here as if we got a bad reputation out of nowhere, as if the sneering southerners couldn't bear to see a northern team doing well so they invented this narrative to knock us down, which is totally false. And as I said, the canavan jersey thing and that whole game was great craic for us, but it pretty obviously wouldn't help our reputation to a neutral.
We're also only talking about one game which has 3 fairly bad incidents on our part and we're wondering where the bad reputation might have come from. From the top of my head I can think of john toal punching galvin in the mouth, the cavan parade riot, tk vs galway, findon emptying the Donegal "dochtuir", and a number of other more moderate skirmishes since 2000. I'm not saying our opponents were innocent in any of those situations, but we have clearly earned this reputation and it'll take a fair period of good behaviour before we get rid of it.