‘The ball crawled over the line. I’ll carry that to my grave’

Tomorrow’s clash of Cork and Louth in the Allianz Football League will rekindle memories of their meeting in the 1957 All-Ireland.

‘The ball crawled over the line. I’ll carry that to my grave’

The biggest and smallest counties in Ireland don’t have a huge amount of shared history, but they did fight out one memorable hour more than 60 years ago.

The 1957 All-Ireland football final pitted Cork and Louth against each other in one of the most dramatic deciders ever played, or at least one of the most dramatic finales.

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