Croke Park, come the big music of All-Ireland semi-finals, tenses with expectation.
The place is full of noises, buskers outside, seagulls inside. You could even say hurling's penultimate weekend got dominated by a sequencing issue. Saturday precedes Sunday, same as June and July. An awful lot stands known by the time the business end swings round once more. Knowledge does funny things to expectation.
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