Snooker

The World Championships at The Crucible in Sheffield are nearing their climax with the heavyweight semi-final between Neil Robertson and Mike Selby likely to be the match of the tournament, the only drawback for the winner will be recovering from an exhausting contest to face (probably) Ronnie O’Sullivan whose path to the final looks much more straightforward; snooker is a sport I have followed on and off for 40 years, beginning with Pot Black on in shades of grey on BBC2 where I’m sure I heard the classic line, possibly misremembered as,  “for those of you watching in black and white, the pink is behind the blue”, then taking in the golden years of Cliff Thorburn’s first televised 147 and Dennis Taylor’s late night, last frame, black ball victory over Steve Davis, but nowadays I tend to pick my matches to get into, and Robertson v Selby looks like a cracker.