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Why watching the Snooker World Championship at the Crucible in Sheffield is like an intimate Paul McCartney acoustic gig ...
JIMMY WHITE intends to play until the age of 65 and is not yet ready to give up top-class snooker to “play bad golf”. The ...
Stephen Hendry has given his thoughts on the long-running darts vs snooker debate, which led to a clash between Luke ...
But if I don’t, I’m going to go and play bad golf.” Barry Hearn sent an ominous warning about the future of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible. The Matchroom chief and snooker ...
SHAUN MURPHY has slammed his own sport of snooker as “stupid”, trying to explain just how difficult it is to be a top cueist. Murphy, 42, has already reached the top of the game when ...
Shaun Murphy claimed that the reputations of snooker’s ‘Class of 92’ hindered both him and his fellow professionals during ...
The debate over what is harder - a nine-darter or a 147 break - has been a hot topic of conversation in recent times, and ...
In 2010 the Guardian predicted snooker would be an amateur sport by 2020. Five years beyond that cut-off, on a sunny Friday ...
Snooker head honcho Barry Hearn even put a minder ... I couldn’t play a round of golf without having a few drinks and a couple of spliffs in my pocket because I didn’t have the confidence ...
Golf series and different people ... when the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) took control of the sport. The first World Championships ran from 1927 - with a break ...
Hazel Irvine has been the face of snooker coverage for the BBC for over 20 years - and the Scot has had to navigate countless ...
Northern Ireland's Mark Allen is so determined for Crucible glory that he's pushing himself through the pain barrier. The Pistol needs a World Championship title to complete a career grand slam, ...