Tipperary end 72 years of pain with famous win

Tipperary 3-15 Cork 2-16: 1944 was the year, just in case you’ve had your head in the sand for the past number of hours.

Where their minors read 2011, where their U21s read 2015, so their seniors shall read 2016 and all the more satisfying and enriching was Tipperary’s latest football breakthrough given not a single soul saw this upset being sprung yesterday.

Not since 1944 have Tipperary ousted Cork in the football championship and while the date was fast approaching when a Tipperary team bridged that gap given the advances in their underage structures over the past decade and a half, it wasn’t expected to be Sunday, June 12.