Double-chasing duo’s showdown needs no hype

NO hype is required to sell tomorrow’s FAI Ford Cup final.

For league champions Shamrock Rovers, the game’s most celebrated double is up for grabs. For Sligo Rovers, there’s the chance to do their own double by adding the FAI Cup to the EA Sports Cup — as well as making up for the heartbreak of losing out in the dying minutes of the final last year to Sporting Fingal.

And for both clubs, there’s the tantalising prospect of walking out in the soaring Aviva Stadium for a season finale which is expected to draw the biggest crowd seen at a domestic game in many years.

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