Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Off Topic => Sports Arena => Topic started by: cdbearsfan on April 27, 2016, 10:55:08 PM
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Tournament building up nicely with a few favourites out, Higgins the latest.
Ding v McManus and Selby v Fu the semis.
McManus would be the best story but I'm a Ding fan and reckon it could be his year.
Sad bastard that I am, the World Snooker championship is probably my favourite annual sporting event. I get completely obsessed with it for seventeen days, love the longer matches.
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Tournament building up nicely with a few favourites out, Higgins the latest.
Ding v McManus and Selby v Fu the semis.
McManus would be the best story but I'm a Ding fan and reckon it could be his year.
Sad bastard that I am, the World Snooker championship is probably my favourite annual sporting event. I get completely obsessed with it for seventeen days, love the longer matches.
There's something quite hypnotic about watching the world snooker championship.
The way the tension can build when the matches get close. Tonight was a prime example of that.
Would like Ding to win, but he's cracked a couple of times before. Hard to see past Selby who is unflappable.
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Went up to the Crucible for first time last year, loved it and did an overnighter this year with a night and morning session - was great we got seats with view of both tables and saw John Higgins/Ryan Day and Ronnie O'Sullivan/Dave Gilbert. Really good atmosphere and a couple of nice pubs around the Winter garden - the Graduate was open till 3am.
Selby's to lose now I reckon with John Higgins out although Ding will not have a better chance to win it.
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I wasn't attending the snooker but was in the area that night. I think I might have been in The Graduate at one stage although I was quite drunk so not entirely sure!
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I really wanted Mitchell Mann to do well. He played in the same leagues as I did plus he is massive Villa fan. I started backing Selby when he went out but I do think it is Dings year. I don't think Hawkins will have a better chance than he did this year.
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I really wanted Mitchell Mann to do well. He played in the same leagues as I did plus he is massive Villa fan. I started backing Selby when he went out but I do think it is Dings year. I don't think Hawkins will have a better chance than he did this year.
I caught the back end of Mann's match, I felt quite sorry for him, he played pretty appallingly.
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Went yesterday, great day. Tickets for next year go on sale on Monday. Well worth it.
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I really wanted Mitchell Mann to do well. He played in the same leagues as I did plus he is massive Villa fan.
I was torn between supporting him because he's Brummie and cheering against him as I assumed he was a Bluenose (because he was on their books). Would've cheered for him wholeheartedly had I known that he was one of us.
Not that it would've done him much good. Probably the worst player in the tournament. Maybe nerves got the better of him and he's better than what he showed.
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Went yesterday, great day. Tickets for next year go on sale on Monday. Well worth it.
How do you go about getting them? Tried many times and never managed to get through. I have sent them emails as well with no response.
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I really wanted Mitchell Mann to do well. He played in the same leagues as I did plus he is massive Villa fan.
I was torn between supporting him because he's Brummie and cheering against him as I assumed he was a Bluenose (because he was on their books). Would've cheered for him wholeheartedly had I known that he was one of us.
Not that it would've done him much good. Probably the worst player in the tournament. Maybe nerves got the better of him and he's better than what he showed.
After the first shot he poured his water and his hands were shaking like a leaf then. I think he will be better for the experience, but how many times has that been said on here.
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Ding should have had a maximum just now nasty bounce when potting final red left awkward last black....shame
still he's 12-8 up so some consolation i suppose
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Massive frame when Ding went 10-8 up
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Went yesterday, great day. Tickets for next year go on sale on Monday. Well worth it.
How do you go about getting them? Tried many times and never managed to get through. I have sent them emails as well with no response.
Just go on the crucible's website. I bought mine in august and got ok-ish seats, but the earlier the better. Dead simple to do. About £35 a ticket for each session.
https://www.cruciblesnooker.com
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Went yesterday, great day. Tickets for next year go on sale on Monday. Well worth it.
How do you go about getting them? Tried many times and never managed to get through. I have sent them emails as well with no response.
Just go on the crucible's website. I bought mine in august and got ok-ish seats, but the earlier the better. Dead simple to do. About £35 a ticket for each session.
https://www.cruciblesnooker.com
Thank you very much.
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Do they all sell out? Tempted to go but I'd rather know which match I'm paying for.
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Gripping 32nd frame between Selby and Fu. Not watched much of it this year, but has the bell end in the Coventry shirt been there? Always wanted to write to the Crucible asking them to ban football shirts just to piss off that cock.
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Now that was a great frame of snooker. I don't think I've ever seen such quality safety over and over in a frame before. Great stuff.
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Gripping 32nd frame between Selby and Fu. Not watched much of it this year, but has the bell end in the Coventry shirt been there? Always wanted to write to the Crucible asking them to ban football shirts just to piss off that cock.
He's been there. Wore a Coventry shirt every day except St George's Day when he wore an England top.
Good contrast today. Ding knocking in centuries every ten minutes. The other semi had some of the best safety I've ever seen.
Can't remember a tournament ever having so many table problems before.
Hope Ding wins it.
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Selby just played a proper pub shot. ha ha. A bobbler. He keeps looking at his tip trying to blame it. Like a footballer who shanks a penalty wide and then starts pretending he's seen a divot on the pitch.
Hoping Ding pulls this around.
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He changed his tip last night apparently. Hopefully he'll lose a bit of confidence in it after that shot and Ding can get back into it.
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He changed his tip last night apparently. Hopefully he'll lose a bit of confidence in it after that shot and Ding can get back into it.
Every time they mention Selby's tip I can't help but laugh. I am immature though.
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You'd have thought that Selby would have looked a touch happier when he won.
I also thought it was very strange when his wife and daughter went to greet him, he looked as if he just didn't want them there.
It's probably as bad a result you can get for the snooker brand.
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Great little interview with the legendary Steve Davis. Must admit I thought he'd never reviews.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/36187848
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Saw that during the interval. It was quite touching I thought. He's reinvented himself as a national treasure since he stopped winning everything!
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William Joseph Thorne has been handed a 6 year bankruptcy restriction from 01 August 2016 for borrowing £453,200 from friends and acquaintances that he had no reasonable expectation of repaying.
He spent the money on gambling which has resulted in his bankruptcy which he filed on his own petition with a deficiency of £601,204.
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Come on Ronnie, planet earth for an hour and hope hes still in it, fantastic viewing for a sunday night.