Snooker World Championship

[Vapin' Joe]

Donald Trump has just put a 100% tax on Chinese snooker players to try and boost nine ball pool.

 

[albion]

Fascinating short on the 'NBT'.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJqgjTzApgw

 

[Chromatic]

Fascinating short on the 'NBT'.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJqgjTzApgw

I’m sure I’ve said it somewhere here before that today’s snooker players owe their ability to earn vast amounts of money from the game to Alex Higgins, to a very considerable extent.

 

[Chromatic]

Anyway, am I the only one to prefer protracted, tactical frames of snooker to the rather tedious break off followed by a straight in with a clearance type frames?

 

[Beebo]

Anyway, am I the only one to prefer protracted, tactical frames of snooker to the rather tedious break off followed by a straight in with a clearance type frames?

I think a bit of both is best.
20 frames of tedious safety would be a boring as 20 frames of 100 breaks.

and whilst Higgins was a trailblazer, the money in sport is mostly owed to Barry Hearn, colour tv and a lack of other live sport on TV.

Snooker in a warm dry theatre was far easier to broadcast than football in a rainy cold stadium, when live outside broadcasting started.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Higgins was responsible for bringing the game from the doldrums to the attention of the media in the seventies, which marked the beginning of the boom. Whether it would have taken off anyway we'll never know without the aid of a time machine. I was lucky enough to see him live when he was at his best, and the buzz in the arena when he was playing was something you rarely experience at a sporting event.

 

[Chromatic]

I think a bit of both is best.
20 frames of tedious safety would be a boring as 20 frames of 100 breaks.

This is certainly true.