Here’s to the next 1,000 Cork City games

If ever a piece of footage encapsulates what supporting a football team means to those who stick it out through the interminable rollercoaster, it is that wonderful clip on YouTube filmed from the away end at Tolka Park in October 2011 just as Graham Cummins is about to score his 94th-minute title winning goal.

Three and a bit years on, the footage of those exultant yelps and screams from the rickety but packed stand housing Cork City’s supporters when Cummins heads the ball home from Derek O’Brien’s cross still produces a spine-tingling sensation.

It was one of those days when every little detail remains freshly ingrained in your mind years later. A summation of the occasional ecstasy you experience when investing so much in not just a team but your team.