Rampant Tipperary earn replay

Tipperary 1-14 Cork 2-11

Fitting because it would have been a real travesty of justice had Tipperary been deprived of the spoils they had fought for so outstandingly well. It was also appropriate that a corner back should garner the all-important score to tie the game because Kelly’s heroic act served to highlight most the unexpected in this absorbing duel.

Nobody, but nobody, gave Tipperary a snowball’s chance in hell of winning this final. It was, in the eyes of most, a foregone conclusion before the off. How wrong, totally wrong, they all were. Tipperary not alone sat at the top table in comfortable ease with a Cork side, acclaimed because the manner in which they defeated Kerry in the semi-final, but they out shone their supposed hosts in the grandest manner possible.