Wenger beaten if he refuses to learn lesson

THE art of winning is in learning from losing.

The Tipperary hurlers understand this. In the 2009 All-Ireland final Brendan Cummins pucked the ball back out within 20 seconds of Henry Shefflin’s game-changing penalty only to find himself within another 20 seconds picking the ball out of the net again. Twelve months later when Richie Power blasted to the net, Cummins made sure to walk all the way behind and around his goal before restarting the game, giving his team a full half-minute to catch their breath and refocus. For all the sympathy and admiration their heroic performance in 2009 garnered, Tipp themselves identified they hadn’t been clinical enough in front of goal and that Kilkenny had beaten them on the hook-block count they had prided themselves on winning.

But what hurts instructs and what cost Tipp the 2009 final won them the 2010 version.