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I started pushing pins under my fingernails and pulling my teeth about 30 minutes ago.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesus Christ. An hour and fifteen minutes. And there could still be another seven frames or so.

― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Frame 27: The combatants go into the trenches for this one - an absolute 'grueller'. Dott moves 40 ahead but, once again, breaks down. A tense safety exchange commences, during which Ebdon misses a number of long reds. Dott then lays a snooker behind the brown which Ebdon misses twice. Dott, with the frame at his mercy, then misses opportunities to wrap up the frame, rattling the jaws with a couple of reds. Ebdon and Dott then take turns missing the green before Ebdon, heart bursting through his waist-coat, mops up. The frame, at 74 minutes, is the longest in Crucible history.
Ebdon 12-15 Dott

hahah i love this guy

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Peter wins the next in one visit!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Despite its almost heroic dullness, this match has now taken on such epic proportions that it might be misremembered as some sort of classic in years to come. No-one remembers that the first 86min of Arsenal-ManU in '79 was crap or that McEnroe-Borg in '80 was a bit duff for the first two and a half hours.

15-13.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't stay up for this - I have to get up early in the morning! Perhaps they'll still be playing.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Peter Ebdon is bringing shame upon the town of Wellingborough.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

As far as the whole O'sullivan thing I mean yeah, he has that much more skill than almost anybody, except from perharps Mark Williams and John Higgins being the only ones capable of running him close. And bcz of that it might've been harder to dominate the game than when Hendry was around (only Jimmy White and no-one else). The other thing is the kind of ppl that *dominate* really have a very ice-like personality; it ususally goes hand-in-hand, and the reason that O'sullivan is compelling is how his emotions are laid bare on the table - its probably just me but whenever someone is really too dominant (Sampras, Hendry) I'm always cheering on the opponent.

Dott has just won, amazingly enough - 16-13.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

It has a momentum now, this match - a sort of slow accumulation of interest in its sheer sprawl. But its badness was summed up in the last frame when Ebdon cockily asked the ref what the highest break of the tournament was before missing a pink by several feet at 84.

Ebdon goes in off when threatening to overhaul a huge deficit in frame 29. Concedes. 16-13.

(Pam is asleep on the couch and has been for about two hours).

I worry just what Ebbo might do if he wins this, prone as he is to embarrassing outbursts. I can see the shirt coming off and some random punter getting punched out in his frenzy.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm crashing. This might go on past two in the morning at this rate.

― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm taking the laptop to bed and turning the portable telly on. I, too, have to be up early tomorrow but first day back after a bank holiday weekend is always a doddle, isn't it? Isn't it?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

the last sesh hasn't been so bad - Ebdon has looked is at his most fluent, it was just "funny" how, in this very same sesh, the longest of the match/tournament played out. xp - think'll beat the record for the longest finish to a final.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the only solution is to put all Chinese snooker players in evil-looking masks to give a kind of pro-wrestling razzmatazz appeal to the sport.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I missed this one from earlier:

Ebdon, who usually wears the look of a man about to be blasted into outer space, does a nifty pirouette and mops up brown, blue and pink. Game on.
Ebdon 9-15 Dott

BC guy/gal is better than the match (which is admittedly picking up after the 75 minute marathon).

Dott looks shattered.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

BC=BBC

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

They need to up the piss-taking quotient if they're going to push past the Thorburn-Griffiths mark and into Tuesday daylight. 4am and they could deliver the trophy on a milk float.

16-14.

(I think the Beeb are copping the Guardian Unlimited style of irreverent reportage, which reached some kind of zenith with USA-Mexico in the 2002 World Cup..."top-bodied the sphere into the score bag" or somesuch).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

The match passes the thirteen hour mark. The people in the studio may well realise how much they're fighting a losing battle - Parrott just came out with "I don't mind watching snooker like this."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Clive Everton comes up with quote of the championship:

"Dott resting his eyes - it's pretty bright under those lights."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Helluva clearance from Dott. I think we may get a decent night's sleep after all. Or at least this will be over before my laptop battery gives out.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

(17-14, btw)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

And here's a sports psychologist to offer virtually no insight whatsoever.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

That was a fantastic frame. Dott looked fucked when he missed that black off the spot then he comes back with a ballsy clearance and gives it an old-skool Ebdon "COME ON!"

I'm starting to enjoy this.

17-14. Dormy.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

There's something aesthetically displeasing about the b and the d in Ebdon.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Now officially the latest finish to a Crucible final ever.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

He's not "dormy"! You can't halve the world snooker final! That would be a fitting climax though.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The BBC site isn't updating. I think the guys finally fallen asleep.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Ebdon makes utter pie of the reds with the scores at 31-all. Dott is on, and this could be it.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Dott blows it!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, sort of. He left nothing on for Ebdon = SAFETY BATTLE MCMXXXVIII

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Are people leaving the audience yet? I happen to know the last bus up Ecclesall Road left fifty minutes ago.

― caek (caek), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

EBDON LEAVES THE LAST RED IN THE JAWS!

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

ebdon blows it!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Dott gets it, gets on the black, nearly explodes with joy, and he pots that... it's over.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

dott has gone through the value of doubts and emerged the other side.

kisses the trophy before the game is finished. don't like that

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Dott's going dotty.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

You've got to admire Dotts mental toughness at the end.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

"2006 is the year Dott". Oh, good one, whatshername.

Good night.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

also: got to love that tobacco sponsorship is not allowed, so snooker gets sponsored by gambling instead! yay!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

And the second twee-est snooker player in the world is the champion (twee-est being Pinches, obv.)

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

(Pam earlier tonight: "Can we move to wherever Dott is from so Ava can acquire that accent?")

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought david gray was a bit twee

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Congratulations to Graham Dott and all of his supporters on a tremendous achievement.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

It was worth staying up for in the end. Great comeback by Ebdon and great clearances at the end by Dott. Last session was fairly exciting as the game was always in the balance.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Imagine how good he'll be when he grows up!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I have now turned off the stream, so tragically I'll never know if they greeted the victory by showing highlights of his play intercut with the video to "Nothing Compares 2 U".

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Please don't give Ava that voice. Horrific. Well done, anyway, Graeme. After a Hearts fan and a Celtic fan, finally a Rangers fan wins the world championship.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

WBS, they cut straight to a Doug Mountjoy trick-shot comp soundtracked by a breakbeat-hampered version of Russ Conway's "Side Saddle".

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

After a Hearts fan and a Celtic fan,

Two Celtic fans, if the publicity machine at Celtic Park is to be believed, i.e. drape a Celtic flag round Ken Doherty's neck, send him out to do the half-time raffle, hurrah, we have another celebrity fan.

I did stay up and watch it, but my laptop is knackered so I went off to bed and watched it on the portable. I never want to see an hour-plus frame of snooker again as long as I live (though the will to live may well desert me and leave me with little choice should that ever come up again). Well done Graeme. Not a bad first tournament to start your trophy haul with.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

not quite the right thread but.. masters final. 8-3 to ronnie, ding looks to be giving up, shook ronnie's hand at the midsession interval looking like he's about to cry, ronnie puts arm around ding and they both went back to ronnie's dressing room.

this is surely staged to compete with big brother?

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought Ding would be favourite. He's the new god of sport.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

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