Tipp forced to sweat in sizzling Semple clash
The multitudes from both counties gathered in Semple Stadium yesterday, over 35,000 of them, shorts and short-sleeve tops the couture-du-jour, no-one knowing what was in store.
Would Tipperary again put up the kind of barnstorming display to which they treated the home fans just four weeks ago, on this same ground, in the extra-time league final loss to Kilkenny? Have they really added that bit of extra steel so necessary at this level of competition, or was that just a one-off?
