Move along, nothing to see here

WHERE DOES the Leinster hurling championship go from this?

Every year it seems to suffer one battering after another, either at semi-final or final stage – could this debacle in Croke Park yesterday be the death-knell?

The irony is that this was one of those games where hurling supporters actually had a little hope that maybe, just maybe, something different was about to happen. Just over two months ago these two had met in the National League semi-final, Wexford spirits rising after a rousing win over Galway in the quarter-final on the previous weekend; Kilkenny gave them a pasting, 2-22 to 2-7, but the feeling was that Wexford were caught on the hop, unprepared, were still on too much of a high.