Faithful made to pay the penalty by Wexford

IT’s one of the most basic truths in sport – you’ve got to take your chances.

At sun-splashed Wexford Park on Saturday, in this thoroughly-enjoyable Leinster SHC quarter-final, that truth was the difference between two very evenly matched sides.

Offaly had two penalties, both were poorly placed and poorly struck, and against a defence in which the brilliant Damien Fitzhenry was the keeper, both were easily saved and cleared.