Tipperary’s loyal core of followers get sweet reward

You’d have been hard pressed to envisage a day like this when Tipp were trudging their way through Division 3 of the Allianz Football League.

They couldn’t even get into Semple Stadium to play a home match, battling it out instead against Offaly and Clare in conditions we’ll generously describe as heavy, before Kildare hammered them by 11 points in Clonmel.

Coming home with muddy shoes and fingers barely thawed out, you’d wonder where they were heading.