A kick is different to a bad contact, however, which has a similar result but an actual explanation. Errors because of bad contact are caused by dust, debris from the table or chalk being in between the two balls as they make contact. World No3 Shaun Murphy is on a mission to find an answer to the kick problem, partnering with scientists to conduct tests to get to the bottom of it. Throughout the Eighties , six-time world champion Steve Davis dominated snooker and was dubbed "boring" by rival Alex Higgins, a tag that stuck with him — and the sport — ever since.
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Added Time: Six Nations: surreal times as coronavirus puts rugby on hold Our Writers. Sign In. Don't have an account? Forgot Password? The idea of the "charismatic" snooker player had already been floated around with the success of Alex Higgins. Now so-called "flair" players, showmen of the baize, were being presented to us as exciting, larger-than-life figures. Kirk Stevens wore a white suit and developed oddly, for such a sedentary pursuit a cocaine habit.
Housewives' favourite Tony Knowles was pictured lolling in a Jacuzzi surrounded by blondes before a world championship semi-final. It couldn't last. Quietly, methodically, boringly, the unreconstructed purist Steve Davis hoovered up most of the titles and most of the airtime too. The crash was coming. By the early 90s, snooker's popularity was on the wane. Dependent on the oxygen of television, it has periodically found itself shunted to one side by its noisier cousin, darts.
Darts is like drunk snooker. It's snooker without the dignity, the bow ties, the air of severity. Darts is caveman snooker. In all its terribly apologetic attempts to make itself less boring, snooker has experimented with format. Shorter matches are in vogue. The current Grand Prix kicked off with a weird league format.
Even the TV companies have attempted to jolly things along with snappier graphics and instant slow-motion replays yes, really featuring an exciting "thunk!
Needless to say, none of this has made any difference. Lots of snooker players are too intense and serious," O'Sullivan said this week. This is, of course, just talk. Billy the Kid didn't play snooker. And if he did, he would have been rubbish at it. Snooker remains unchangeably what it is: a business of potting balls, sitting in a chair and occasionally shaking hands. Which isn't to say that vultures aren't circling the professional game.
Rumours persist that many leading players have been tempted by offers to join the lucrative US pool circuit, where they can be given silly nicknames and paid lots more money to pot five balls rather than There is much hopeful talk of the sport's fevered popularity in China, a country with a vast and mythical appetite for boredom.
Whatever happens, the game itself will remain the same. Gray shouldn't be hounded for falling asleep during his own match.
Far from betraying the sport, he may just have been making a public stand for the great, boundless, glacial - and occasionally very boring - forces that make it so much fun in the first place.
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