Young Rebels facing into toughest task

FOR sheer entertainment value, it’s difficult to match the heights that the Cork minor footballers have scaled this season.

They enter tomorrow’s ESB All-Ireland MFC final against Tyrone in Croke Park at 1.15pm on the back of a series of phenomenal revivals. From their opening day out in Ennis in April, Cork have perfected the art of the comeback and their refusal to collapse when all seemed lost has underpinned their summer adventure.

In their Munster opening round against Clare, Cork reeled off four injury-time points to win by three, a last-minute goal by Brian Hurley snatched the provincial spoils from Kerry in July and Stephen O’Mahony bundling home an injury-time goal to knock out Armagh by the minimum in the quarter-final.