Leg work done, replay will be decided in players’ heads

You wait 50 years for an All-Ireland hurling final draw... This is the second season in a row the big show has gone to a replay, but at least it means you have first-hand experience of preparing for a second day.

Brian Hogan of Kilkenny recalls the end of last year’s drawn final.

“It was the strangest atmosphere I ever experienced. Even on the field afterwards it was eerie, because you’re expecting the elation of victory or the desolation of a loss.