Can Clare pull off an upset to match 1992?

Clare must limit the Cork forwards to have any hope

Whatever giddiness the Clare footballing public are feeling ahead of their first Munster final appearance in 12 years tomorrow has been further heightened by the inevitable nostalgia surrounding the 20th anniversary of the heroic win of 1992.

There is an unavoidable sense of romance among the diehards ahead of the clash with Cork but deep down the realists among those walking the Ennis Road to the Gaelic Grounds tomorrow must harbour the same expectation the Romans had when they paid up for the fixtures between the Christians and the lions all those years ago. The fear from a neutral perspective is that Clare could end up on the wrong side of a proper mauling.