Stamping their place in football history

MICKEY HARTE is flicking through the breakthrough moments of a breakthrough year.

The first occurs in Parnell Park, on the 16th day of February. It is strange date to bookmark as on this miserable Sunday afternoon, his Tyrone charges suffered their second defeat of the Allianz NFL campaign going down by a single point to the Dubs.

Yet there was something about the moment which sticks in Harte's mind, the morning after an All-Ireland SFC Final victory.