So near for Cork yet they still have a way to travel

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Yet down on the field, there was a distinct lack of urgency being shown by the boys in the red-and-white strip.

The few Cork supporters who had bothered to travel would have been informed by those tuned to transistors that Wexford were leading Kilkenny by a point in Nowlan Park with just minutes to go and if that score held then Cork had every chance of pipping the Cats to a place in the league final as Tipp had comfortably qualified by virtue of their win over Clare.