When Tipperary last suffered a defeat greater than this to Cork, they might have taken some comfort from the fact that it was from the greatest side ever to emerge from Leeside.
For a period late on in today's final round robin game, it appeared as though Cork would usurp their 4-15 to 4-1 victory in 1942, a year when they won the second of four All-Ireland titles in-a-row, the only time that feat had been achieved until Kilkenny matched it in 2009.
They led by 15 points and Tipperary were down to 14 men when Tim O’Mahony hit their third goal in the 64th minute and O’Mahony missed a chance for another moments later to push it out to 18.
