Rainbow’s end as Tyrone add colours to the list

Tyrone 0-12 Armagh 0-9

Certainly, they deserved to make the historic breakthrough, 27 years after contesting the first of their three finals and nobody was more worthy of leading them to victory than the mighty Peter Canavan.

But, against a background of two terrible goal misses in the second half, it required a superb block from wing-back Conor Gormley to prevent an Armagh goal in the 68th minute which, in all probability, would have enabled them to hold on to their title.