When hurling continents collide

With respect to the Troggs, you feel it in your fingers. You feel it in your toes. Love may not be all around when Kilkenny meet Tipperary, but you should still be tingling in anticipation ahead of Sunday’s All-Ireland hurling final

THINK OF the game on Sunday as an allegorical painting from the 17th century, symbolic figures on the canvas embodying the eternal struggles. Ambition led by Youth encounter Guile joined to Power. Some such concoction by a well-spattered Dutchman.

It’s that elemental. Tipperary and Kilkenny won’t clash on Sunday. They’ll collide like continents, it’ll just be a lot quicker.