The victors will be the worthiest All-Ireland champions in history. That’ll be Limerick.

The front of the Limerick Leader supplement got the tone pitch-perfect, its message as neatly manicured as one of those deliveries from the half-back line for Aaron Gillane or Seamus Flanagan to feast on.

Hoping for History. England expects. Galway expects. Limerick hopes. Forty-five years of ceaseless rain on from September 2, 1973, itself famously a day of ceaseless rain, that’s as much as they’re entitled to do.

Hope, not expect.