Limerick teach Tipp in summer school

THE deceptiveness of league form was painted vividly yesterday afternoon in Semple Stadium.

Tipperary and Limerick approached this Munster SFC quarter-final from opposite ends of the spectrum, Tipp with the boon of promotion and Limerick with the calamity of relegation.

But in the intense heat of a championship battle, springtime form proved illusory. Limerick’s players have stored up plenty experience of summer football and that proved of immeasurable value in enabling them to stave off Tipperary’s burgeoning side, whose late charge failed to alter the result.