Have Cork got the bottle to beat Limerick?
On the snakes and ladders board of Cork hurling, the 2008 All-Ireland semi-final was the top of a snakes head. A long snake. In Come What May, Dnal g Cusacks autobiography, he describes the racket going on in his mind on the night before the match against Kilkenny. Cork had made a wild card run to Croke Park with a couple of death-defying wins in the qualifiers, but the Cork players had no confidence in their manager, Gerald McCarthy, and in the build-up to the biggest game of their season, McCarthy did nothing that might have challenged their scepticism. All week wed been waiting for some kind of plan to be handed down to us, wrote Cusack. None had comeWe needed something. These fellas