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28th July 2019
05:21pm BST
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The first half's most controversial moment arrived on 30 minutes and Hogan featured again. Lee Chin looked to have dropped a long-range free short, as Hogan snatched it over his crossbar. He cleared forward and Paudie Maher scored what looked to be Tipp's second goal but Hawkeye had other ideas.
Hawkeye replays showed that Chin's effort had gone over the bar, meaning Hogan playing on and Tipperary's goal had to be chalked off. That meant a four-point swing. Wexford finished the half strong to lead by two at the break.
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The second half saw both side trade a couple of points until, on 45 minutes, John McGrath was shown his second yellow card - and sent off - for recklessly lashing out with his hurley.
A few minutes later, as McGrath reflected on that rash strike on the Tipp bench, Lee Chin burst through the opposition defence and backed himself from 20 yards out. His strike was low and to Hogan's right and Wexford were 2-18 to 1-16 ahead.
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Tipperary's response was true grit, and then some. Liam Sheedy's men rallied superbly to score five straight points and, with 13 minutes to go, we were level again.
A missed free, soon after, meant Tipperary could not edge ahead and Wexford then found a perfect way to break their 10-minute scoring duck. There were suspicions of a square ball but Conor McDonald had wisely held his run before he bundled home his second goal.
Replays subsequently showed that McDonald was in the square before he took possession of the ball, from Paul Morris' pass, and Wexford were fortunate that the umpires did not have access to those same replays.
Tipperary responded with three consecutive scores and when Barry Keogh pointed to make it 3-18 to 1-24, we were level for a ninth time. As the clocked ticked 70 minutes, Willie Connors made it level for a 10th time.
There was more controversy as Jake Morris had a THIRD GOAL DISALLOWED when referee Sean Cleere called play back - rather than playing advantage - for a foul on Jason Forde. Forde, at least, knocked over the free and he added another to make it 1-27 to 3-19 with three minutes of injury time to go.
Chin popped over a free, on 74 minutes, then was called for a free against Paudie Maher. Hogan cleared up-field and sub Morris pinged one over for the final score of a breathless game.
WEXFORD: Mark Fanning; Damien Reck, Liam Ryan, Simon Donohoe; Paudie Foley, Matthew O'Hanlon (jc), Shaun Murphy; Kevin Foley, Diarmuid O'Keeffe; Liam Óg McGovern, Conor McDonald, Jack O'Connor; Paul Morris; Lee Chin (jc), Rory O'Connor TIPPERARY: Brian Hogan; Cathal Barrett, Seamus Kennedy, Barry Heffernan; Brendan Maher, Padraic Maher, Ronan Maher; Noel McGrath, Michael Breen; Dan McCormack, John O'Dwyer, Niall O'Meara; Jason Forde, Séamus Callanan (c), John McGrath.
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