snooker world championship final

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

ah fkn telt ye

Yup

Been watching Bingham Ronnie its been terrific but Bingham is just pulling away now. 12 - 10

bingham’s cooking

Omg..

Just came here to post that, holy shit this frame

Awesome ending, fucking hell

just a little bit gutted we didn't get more but by rights Ronnie should never have had a shout in that last one

6-6 Wilson Gilbert. Can't be separated

hard to dislike a player with the nickname "The Angry Farmer"

Looks like Wilson has broken the back of this match 13-9

Not done anything special as Gilbert has stopped playing.

huge frame for gilbert that

Jak Jones 10-9 up. Bingham missed a black off the spot

11-9. Another missed black off tge spot!

Bingham was on the brink till that century.

He has got to cut out the silly errors tonight

Think Wilson will win this with ease and so far its proved to be: 4-0

not the final we might've hoped so far

Utter annihilation.

Jak is an excellent player but next to no experience. Its showing

massacre

They are really over criticising Jak for not coming to the practice table at the mid session.

Whreas I am thinking he should be trying to get Kyren involved in a safety session (I've seen one opportunity squandered)

Anyway never seen 7-0 in a world final before (been watching since '93/4)

Ok hes off: 7-1

Wasn't Taylor 8-0 down after the first session the year he won?

Yup