The greatest team of all and the greatest manager

This was the first time in my long association with the Irish Examiner I had predicted a draw in a game, and, for a while, as the game was coming to a conclusion, it was beginning to look like I might be proved right.

Well, truth be known – and I have no problem admitting this – I wasn’t even close. Yes, twice in the final minutes Tipperary got the deficit back to a goal and twice Kilkenny managed to get the point to put that little extra daylight between them.

But, Kilkenny were by far the better side yesterday, should have won by far more than four points.