snooker world championship final

Shaun Murphy is so annoying

One visit snooker from Selby. 16-13 at the interval.

Glad Murphy is off, do prefer Hendry.

OTOH Virgo is on for Dennis Taylor.

Selby is getting stronger

16-14..

flukey bastard!

this is why I hate sport.

He wasn't going to leave anything tbh. It happens!

Just had to check that Jean van de Velde wasn't also Belgian (he was French).

Lol that wouldn't be the same thing anyway.

Brecel is in trouble. Did say if this goes close I think it's Selby and it's sadly proving to be the case.

is he worse than Higgins? nobody is but

Selby and Higgins are both all time greats lol

give up on the long pots ffs

Brecel's game is looking very shabby at the moment. He said he doesn't use a B game but I don't think he has one.

Now..

Ok that 50 break could be what Brecel needs.

blimey, a lot going on here. It's Brecel's to lose now

Selby flukes that red then misses the brown...snookers required

Brecel one away

Brecel played some really good safety in that one

I meant worse than Higgins in terms of their ineluctable grit, their monstrosity

supoib

Awesome!

you love to see it.

Great tournament

heartwarming stuff

Fantastic!

Another one I can't stand is Hazel Irvine. Imagine going through all that and then you've got this idiot to deal with.

what a nice chap

he didn't get Selbied, so now he's getting Hazeled.

What's the Selby and Vicky thing?

That was weird. I know Selby has spoken of mental health issues.

I recall one year when Selby won it and was visibly depressed throughout the whole post-match, he clearly has his demons, but it feels like this is physical health maybe

Here's to more snooker like how Brecel and Si play it

he bounced back from a serious burnout iirc

I watched the Ronnie Amazon documentary, *The Edge of Everything*. I have an instinctive emotional response to Ronnie at the best of times and found this moving - particularly as the whole thing is inevitably organised around the central wound of his dad's imprisonment. Curious to note how similar Ronnie's story is to Beckham's (whose name is on the credits as an executive producer) - how driven they both are by strong father figures and how both seem to seek father figures in their lives, albeit in Ronnie's case, the father figures seem generally more benevolent (Ronnie Wood, Damien Hirst, Jimmy White and his psychologist Steve Peters).

On the downside, it doesn't need to be the best part of two hours, and the snooker on show is oddly neutered. There's lots of Ronnie self-analysing in hotel rooms. I liked the use of the close mic during in the 2022 World Championships; there are times when you can hear the squeak of his shoes amid the muttering and cursing.

No fucking way this is happening

Mark Allen 62 break misses the final red. Higgins pots a double and clears up to win the decider.

Bastard.

what a finale

kyren will do him in the QF

Really hope so.

Gutted for Allen

Jak Jones smacked Judd Trump. Good on the lad: 13-9.

Reached the QF last year. Reminds of Graham Dirt in that he really is a matchplay specialist.

Wilson has been dominating Higgins. Was 9-4 up but Higgins is coming back on him 9-6 (last frame won on the black). Last frame of ten session

Graham *Dott

Prefer Graham Dirt, a kind of nice guy punk name.

I've not paid attention to the snooker in years do I didn't even know Higgins was still playing.

Higgins/Allen was a fantastic match

higgins match percolating nicely

higgins celtic fan against kyren wilson english. sorry I can only support the wizard here, match fixing be damned

I'd support Maguire against Gilbert but it's not looking good rn

Reading Dott's wiki page:

Dott supports Rangers[62] and paraded his World Championship trophy at Ibrox, their home ground, during half-time of Rangers' final league match against Hearts on 7 May 2006.

Ronnie was just getting going when he got to 8-6.

Bingham produced a century and a 82 break. 8-8. Should be a cracker tonight

shame i missed the finale of Trump vs Jones, the last few frames last night were great