Entertainment! He is the reason why snooker took off in the 80ās. Well him and the nugget - because they were polar oppositeās
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Anthony McGill was on the brink trailing Martin OāDonnell 4-9 in this Crucible qualifier. Won 6 frames on the trot from there to win 10-9.
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Final round of Qualfiers and 16 places at the Crucible up for grabs today.
Stuart Bingham (17) -v- Matthew Stevens (48)
Jack Lisowski (18) -v- He Guoqiang (47)
Jak Jones (19) -v- Luca Brecel (46)
Zhang Anda (22) -v- Zak Surety (43)
Ali Carter (23) -v- Anthony McGill (42)
Zhou Yuelong (24) -v- Michael Holt (56)
David Gilbert (25) -v- Aaron Hill (40)
Gary Wilson (27) -v- Xu Si (38)
Pang Junxu (29) -v- Jackson Page (36)
Lei Peifan (30) -v- Ryan Day (35)
Hossein Vafaei (32) -v- Gao Yang (97)
Stan Moody (44) -v- Jiang Jun (76)
Noppon Saengkham (45) -v- Liam Pullen (84)
Jamie Jones (60) -v- Anton Kowalski (69)
Oliver Lines (58) -v- Liam Highfield (90)
Fan Zhengyi (63) -v- Ben Mertens (66)
Bingham
Lisowski
Jones
And a
Carter
Yuelong
Hill
Xu si
Page
Day
Vafaei
Jiang
Noppon
Jones
Highfield
Fan
Some very tricky matches. Hopefully hill can get over the line
Well you certainly canāt say that the Hurricane wasnāt entertaining!!
That could be a cracker.
2024 runner up v 2023 champion. Snooker, bloody hell.
I see that Thepchaiya Un-Nooh was beaten in the second last round of the qualifiers.
The last I saw of him was earlier this year and he was beating Ronnie in the World Open including a 147 break!
Theip sĆ© ar an turas go dtĆ an Crucible.
Its the most wonderful time of the year.
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The stretch from the first week or so of April to about May 20th is the greatest time of the year.
The cherry blossoms are out. The evenings are lengthening all the time.
You have:
The Boat Race live on BBC with commentary by the great Barry Davies
The Grand National live on BBC with coverage hosted by Desmond Lynam
The FA Cup semi-finals double header from Villa Park and Maine Road with live coverage hosted by Desmond Lynam
The US Masters live on the BBC with coverage hosted by Steve Rider and featuring the incomparable and quietly subversive Peter Alliss (who refused an OBE)
The latter stages of the Heino live on RTE featuring Munster packing out the proper Lansdowne Road on a glorious sun kissed late April Sunday
The CRUCIBLE. Jimmy. Ray Edmonds. David Vine. Enbassy Tobacco. The Doug Wood Band.
The latter stages of the European Cup now calling itself the Champions League live on RTE featuring THE PANEL, also on ITV with Clive Tyldesley, and spine tingling nights in the Nou Camp and the Stadio Delle Alpi and the Olympic Stadium in Munich.
FA Cup final team songs, featuring on Top Of The Pops presented by Simon Mayo (he never bottled it on presenting duties).
FA Cup Final Grandstand, starting at 12:15 after Trevor and Simon and Gordon The Gopher had finished up, and featuring Jimmy Tarbuck and the celebrity soccer six a game and Ray Stubbs at the Everton hotel and Stand Boardman cracking jokes on the Everton bus. Presented by Desmond Lynam.
The Eurovision Song Contest, with commentary by Sir Terry Wogan. And the 12 points from Cyprus goes toā¦Greece.
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Aaron hill is on the brink here against Gilbert ā¦ 8-6 down and looks like heās gonna lose frame 15 alsoā¦ he missed what looked like a very easy red to top corner pocket letting gillbert in amounst the redsā¦
Matthew Stevens is back at the Crucibleā¦heās beaten Stuart Bingham 10-7.
With Jimmy White not being able to land that elusive first World title until 2027, 2026 would be a good year for Matthew to land that elusive first World title of his own.
Lisowski losing 5 nil
Brecel 3-3 Jones
Just thinking - I love Luca Brecel! A proper maverick.
Brecel and Lisowski both losing 7-4.
Lisowski is out. Played terrible from what I saw of it.
Brecel out as well.
Stan 
Gary Wilson and Xu Si going the distance.
Wilson lead 7-2 in that,