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Mon 09 Sep 2010Drive for five hits Tipperary roadblock
Tipperary 4-17 Kilkenny 1-18:HISTORY’S NOT easily made. Kilkenny, the latest county to tilt at the immortality of five successive All-Irelands, found their favouritism dissolving in the autumnal rain at Croke Park, as Tipperary – at times ebbing but otherwise powerfully flowing – drove with increasing self-belief to a first Liam MacCarthy Cup in nine years.
Few would have believed that the riveting drama of last year’s final could have been equalled let alone surpassed but that’s what happened as the teams collided in a full-on confrontation that outranked 12 months ago for its sheer intensity and end-to-end duelling.
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