Snooker Loopy

Had a good laugh at Ronnie being unhappy with the ref's placement of the cue ball, then getting Trump over to have a look 😂

I had to glance back at Higgins thing as I couldn't remember the details. He was found not guilty of the fixing, but guilty of not reporting the incident as soon as it happened. The whole thing was a sting set up and reported by News of the World, so not exactly a newspaper known for being an upstanding publication.

And, if you did end up discussing match fixing with people in Ukraine for real, good chance those people are connected with Russian Mafia. Don't know about you, but I would feel a tad uncomfortable and play along until the first opportunity to get the hell out of there. You can certainly question about him ending up in that situation in the first place, but accepting what the ruling body has decided over a discredited paper and random people on the Internet seems reasonable.

Whatever anyone thinks about that incident though, he is still a fantastic player.

Anyway, that resetting the white by Ronnie was funny initially but grew a bit tedious. Interesting to see so much talking back to the ref, which I don't think you would see in any other sport. Obviously, you have to get it right, but the point when the ref, the second ref, the player and the opponent agree iit is positioned correctly, before Ronnie again stood up and said it isn't right probably is where the ref should have said enough is enough we are playing on.

That's some hairdo on the BBC interviewer, rocking the 50s

Unfortunately he seems to have the personality type that needs some kind of drama in order to function. He always needs something to distract him.

Judd Judd Judd...

The entire tournament ROS has been put under zero pressure from anyone, all of them crumbling probably from fear of him. When he can play however he wants and know his opponent will fuck up and let him back in, he will not be beaten, it just plays directly to his strength.

Trump is looking amateurish here.

This is just pathetic really how easily he's been broken.

Trump looks like a boy who is having a good, hard think about what he's done.

Christ, that's shocking body language from Trump

It is astonishing that Hendry held the most ranking events record for so long from back when there were only 7 events in a season.

Could half imagine Ronnie asking to just play through the night so he can get tomorrow off. He'd probably be done by 1am.

Same with his (former) century record. Guy was a machine in his pomp.

Wouldn't surprise me if this ends with a session to spare. Other than one or two games this tournament has been a bit of a non-event. Desperately missed someone like Selby putting a shift in.