The Tipperary County Board last night unanimously decided to lodge an objection with the Munster Council against the result of last Sunday's controversial provincial football championship match between Kerry and Tipperary.

In the course of that game in Tralee, Kerry forward Gerard Murphy scored a goal which was clearly shown on television replays to be wide. Kerry won the game by 1-11 to 0-8, but the Tipperary County Board, after a long meeting in the Sarsfields complex in Thurles, upheld the decision taken by the county's Football Board on Monday night to seek to declare the result invalid and to ask for a replay.

An appeal under Rule 104 of the Official Guide will be lodged this afternoon with Donie Nealon, the secretary of the Munster Council. It is expected that the provincial body will act swiftly to hear Tipperary's appeal with a meeting likely to take place at the weekend.

Mick Frawley, the chairman of the Tipperary Football Board, claimed that the awarding of the goal had a major impact on the game's outcome. Members of the football board and team management had met on Monday night and felt strongly that the result should be declared void and the match re-fixed.

Last night's meeting in Thurles voted unanimously to uphold that view. Although some members felt a request should be made to Kerry asking them to make a gesture to replay the game, the consensus was that a formal appeal to the Munster Council was the best route forward.

This is the second time inside the past month that a county has appealed against the result of a championship game being allowed to stand. Two weeks ago, Carlow County Board appealed to the Leinster Council seeking a re-fixture after referee Niall Barrett dismissed six players in their game with Westmeath. The Leinster Council upheld the appeal, but it was subsequently rejected by the GAA's Management Committee and Westmeath's victory was allowed to stand.

Tipperary's appeal, though, is based on the TV evidence which clearly showed Murphy's initial shot going wide and the ball rebounding off the metal stanchions on the side-netting.