Wexford far too smart to fall for Antrim mind games

Wexford 1-20 Antrim 1-8: Wexford have developed immunity to Kevin Ryan’s mind games.

Ahead of their 2013 semi-final, the Antrim boss publicly stated his belief that the northerners would be comfortably outclassed by the Leinster champions. Capitalising on the total complacency of their opponents, Antrim scored a famous two-point win and Ryan was almost repeating himself last week when claiming his team was in for a “massive hiding” and “don’t deserve to be in the competition”.

Long before the first ball was struck on Saturday afternoon, however, it was clear there would be no second ambush.