― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
:)
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Frame 20: Like a couple of chimps in London Zoo, Ebdon and Dott continue to scratch about as the match approaches the mid-session interval. Yet again, both men have chances. Dott breaks down after a 62 break before Ebdon misses a straight-forward yellow when overstretching. Dott then fluffs a snooker, leaving Ebdon to pot the yellow and lay a snooker of his own. Dott is unable to escape, but then flukes a snooker of his own and manages to flop over the line. A big psychological frame for Dott.Ebdon 7-13 Dott
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Ebdon and Dott can fuck off (except that I like when Scottish people win stuff, with the exception of Stephen Hendry)
xpost, that's brilliant. I wish he'd said "scratch their arses" though.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 May 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 May 2006 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't think I've seen a competitor who had a greater skill level than all his competitors since Jahangir Khan was holding it down in the squash world 20 years prior
Hmm, odd comparison. I thought the thing about JK was his astonishing mental toughness; he wasn't the most audacious shot-maker, he just used to out-last his opponents. 555 consecutive wins, wasn't it? Ronnie can rarely manage 5. Perhaps a better comparison is with Roger Federer or - better - John McEnroe. McEnroe was more or less the best in the world for about four years but genuinely untouchable for a 15-month spell in the middle (i.e. what Federer's been doing to everyone for the last 2.5 years) - but then imploded. McEnroe annihilating Connors for the loss of four games in the '84 Wimbledon final and then shambling to a similarly humbling defeat vs Curren twelve months later was very Ronnie.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
He will fancy this now - and I might stick a bet on him to win.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Frame eight: Peter Ebdon must have walked in front of several black cats, while smashing a mirror or two for good measure, during the interval. To say he is not getting the run of the balls would be an understatement.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
hahah i love this guy
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
15-13.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Dott has just won, amazingly enough - 16-13.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Ebdon goes in off when threatening to overhaul a huge deficit in frame 29. Concedes. 16-13.
(Pam is asleep on the couch and has been for about two hours).
I worry just what Ebbo might do if he wins this, prone as he is to embarrassing outbursts. I can see the shirt coming off and some random punter getting punched out in his frenzy.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Ebdon, who usually wears the look of a man about to be blasted into outer space, does a nifty pirouette and mops up brown, blue and pink. Game on.Ebdon 9-15 Dott
BC guy/gal is better than the match (which is admittedly picking up after the 75 minute marathon).
Dott looks shattered.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link
16-14.
(I think the Beeb are copping the Guardian Unlimited style of irreverent reportage, which reached some kind of zenith with USA-Mexico in the 2002 World Cup..."top-bodied the sphere into the score bag" or somesuch).
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
"Dott resting his eyes - it's pretty bright under those lights."
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm starting to enjoy this.
17-14. Dormy.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― caek (caek), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link
kisses the trophy before the game is finished. don't like that
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link