Match back on.
Match back on.
Match back off.
Is it just me or did the colour ball spots used to be more visible on TV? I can't really see them these days.
I had high hopes for this final but Mark Williams just hasn't turned up.
And the whole thing has descended into dogshit territory now.
Needs to finish a session early this, it's just tragic.
Has the final ever finished a session early?
Those two and Davis vs. Thorburn in 83. May have happened too before it was first to 18, but fuck knows how those finals prior to that worked.
Even the snooker Gods agree with me after that green. End it now.
And that blue.Ridiculous.
Just let him have one more frame now so they don't need to come back tonight.
That was a painful watch.
It was, made worse by the commentator's refusal to admit that Williams was playing appalling snooker.
Hosts must be delighted that they are putting on a single frame later just so don't have to point at the NO REFUNDS sign again.
You could presumably scalp your ticket to a Chinese person for all the tea if you wanted.
Maybe they can get holograms of Joe and Fred Davis for an exhibition, although that's basically what Williams's final appearance has been.
Surely one of you betting lads has stuck 50p on Williams at 1000/1? He’s looked pretty good in those two frames.
That 1,000-1 is worth every penny. If Zhao were to lose here it'd be the biggest comeback/bottle job in the history of the sport.
Forget the snooker, let's discuss John Parrott's spray tan. Fucking hell.![]()
Get them bets in boys. The snooker gods are with Williams.
That was majestic. Win the first one back after the interval and Zhao will be sweating.
Some check Zhao’s bank transactions.
He's really making this harder for himself.
That red over the pocket then was miles off.
At least get the poor lad a translator or something.
Would using a translator not make these interviews a little less awkward?
The cheer for Xintong saying he'd have a "good drink tonight".![]()
Snap, Gray Fox.
I didn't follow the ins and outs of when all the Chinese lads were banned but it seems to be the gist that he was more bullied into it by the bigger boys and didn't actually throw a match himself?
There was a group of 10 players involved and he knew they were doing it. So they had him for not dobbing them in. He didn't actively do any of the match fixing.
I think Higgins got popped for something similar. Not disclosing an approach by some dodgy men with a briefcase.
If anyone's really getting itchy Channel 5 are showing the seniors now, where the quality is just low enough for me to start deluding myself that I could do alright here
Is it still a mix of people who are still playing on the pro tour (therefore shouldn't be in it) and people who were never on the pro tour in the first place (therefore also shouldn't be in it)?
And Christ, if the website I'm looking at for the draw is accurate then they seem to have extended the matches this year, with the final being best of 15. That will take longer than the actual final to finish.
Mark Williams won it in 2014 lol