Give Tipperary a break and they’ll rule world again

While he was still in his early 20s, but sometime after he’d blazed onto the scene winning back-to-back Wimbledon titles, Boris Becker indicated just how worldly and weary he already was by that point. 

Give Tipperary a break and they’ll rule world again

“One thing I know is that the world will not allow me to just play,” he said. “It will not allow me to be number 15 in the world.”

It’s a sentiment that members of the Tipperary hurling team have been able to relate to, as far back as 2011. Seamus Callinan was 22 when he lined out in that year’s All-Ireland final.

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