Wexford out to move on from ‘little blip’

THEY were the two Cinderella stories of this year’s provincial championships, Wexford and Fermanagh, each of them reaching their respective finals.

Didn’t have any fairytale ending, however. Fermanagh at least had the consolation of putting it up to Armagh in a big way, in the first game especially, but Wexford — well, a 3-23 to 0-9 scoreline is more typical of a one-sided hurling match and represents an even heavier defeat than that suffered by the Wexford hurlers in their Leinster final loss to Kilkenny (5-21 to 0-17).

So, what happened to Wexford against the Dubs? How did a team that had been unbeaten this year in league and championship, with morale-boosting wins over Meath and Laois, collapse so badly against Dublin, go from four points down at the break to losing by 23?