Kieran Shannon: Limerick will be dead set on gaining furious vengeance on Cork

There’s hardly a prior triumvirate in the sport’s long history that can match Clare, Cork and Limerick. 

SPOT ON: Instead of being decided on penalties, it would have been preferable for Cork and Limerick's epic Munster final to have been replayed. Pic: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

Before we look at what it means going forward, let’s first see where Cork-Limerick last Saturday sits with the past.

It may have been imperfect but it was almost all the more glorious for that; how the ferocity each side brought to the battle meant the slickest and most goal-hungry team in the country was restricted to a solitary goal and pressurised into shooting 18 wides over 90 minutes and the finest team the Munster championship has ever known was held well below the normal number of shots they’d want and expect to get off.