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Published 15:04 5 May 2015 BST
Updated 15:08 5 May 2015 BST
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Canavan did concede that there was some gamesmanship at the end of the game in terms of how Tyrone saw out the result but insisted that that's a part of all games.
"Possibly there were some cynical aspects to the game," he added. "It happened in the last three or four minutes, in my opinion, when we had a team hanging on by their fingernails, trying to win an All-Ireland title.
"(They were) things that would happen in the closing stages of any game so, to be blunt about it, yes I was very disappointed and that comes from someone from a county that have been on the receiving end of All-Ireland final defeats in controversial circumstances."
With talk that Tyrone U21 boss Feargal Logan was denied access to the Tipperary dressing room after the game, such was he anger of the Tipp camp, Canavan revealed that he had seen scenarios like that take place in the past.
"From time to time it may happen whereby a manager thought that he couldn't control some of his players or if his players were particularly aggrieved about something then, in order to prevent a situation, that may happen and I have seen it happen.
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