Last week was a particularly sad one for snooker, with news of the passing of John Virgo. JV, as we all knew him, was a great man, and snooker has lost one of its very best. I grew up knowing JV from an early age ... .
It’s time to get back to work after the Christmas break, and what a place to start, with the Masters always one of the highlights of the snooker season ... There’s a lesson in that ... London crowd takes no prisoners ... .
It’s time to get back to work after the Christmas break, and what a place to start, with the Masters always one of the highlights of the snooker season ... There’s a lesson in that ... London crowd takes no prisoners ... .
Mark Selby is currently closing in on 1000 career centuries – the current count is 931 to be precise – but few of the big breaks he has made over the years will better the break of 69 he made to win the UK Championship on Sunday night ... .
In his latest column, Neal Foulds looks ahead to York's UK Championship, where young meet old in what promises to be a memorable tournament ... Here’s one for the anoraks out there – the UK Championship was originally born in Blackpool in 1977 ... .