Perfect ending for City slickers

“TO have a finish like that, for every supporter and everyone involved with Cork City, is just unbelievable,” said Tommy Dunne. “To score when we did and to see the huge travelling support going wild was just fantastic.

“I never imagined that it would come down to this,” said Graham Cummins. “It’s fantastic to win a league at any stage, but to win it with the last kick of the last game of the season, you can’t really script that.”

In common with everyone else inside Tolka Park on Saturday night — and not least the more than 1,500-strong Rebel Army — Cork City’s manager and matchwinner, were left grasping for superlatives in the immediate aftermath of a dramatic game which, at one goal apiece, saw Shelbourne on the very brink of securing the point they needed to claim the title. Then, four minutes into time added on, Cork substitute Derek O’ Brien skipped up the left flank, swung an inch-perfect cross into the box and there was top scorer Cummins to meet the ball with a textbook downward header to confirm Cork City as the 2011 Airtricity First Division champions.