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there have been some really good matches already. I would actually say murphy's comeback from a ludicrous amount down in the last round was very good. even though i don't like murphy.

― Gukbe, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if they ever do "Unlikable: The Shaun Murphy Story" whether they'll get David Mitchell to play him?

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

yes! (to match and Mitchell)

― Just got offed, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

Mark Selby is YOUR 888 World Snooker Championship finalist.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

And he makes a joke about Parkinson's Disease in his post-match interview. WINNER.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

suddenly (and especially after the warm hug for selby) i don't hate murphy that much any more...

the final already looks like another good'un, between two of the tournament's form players (i think they're 1 and 2 for most centuries, correct me if i'm wrong), but i'd like to add to the list of great games the 13-12 midnight thriller between selby and carter.

― Just got offed, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

"And he makes a joke about Parkinson's Disease in his post-match interview. WINNER."

Thought you'd like that, Dom :-)

That hug ws great!! Two amazing semi-finals, though its the (at first) least promising of them that ws best in the end.

I've watched 10 hours of snooker today and have enjoyed every second of it!

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

only shame about Selby getting through is we'll get the 'oh I've been so impressed w/him' guff from the commentators from now till monday night.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

Right, 2 - 2. Reasonable, since they're both not quite awake yet.

But "Higgins is the more experienced player when it comes to world championship finals, he's been here three times before" sounds like a useful comment until you remember that he won his first final, winning over Ken Doherty, the reigning world champion! Du-uh.

― StanM, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

Selby's getting bitchslapped out there right now.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

Will this all be over with a session to spare?

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 06:00 (eighteen years ago)

Not that Higgins wouldn't deserve it, but it's nicer when there's actual competition - let's hope Selby slept well and can pull back a couple of frames.

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 06:06 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, guys! (they're reading our threads!)

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not unconvinced that Selby can't actually do this.

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Also, yeah, Parkinson's joke in his post-match interview on Saturday = guilty lolz.

I like him. I want him to win (this usually leads to kiss of death, so I apologise profusely in advance)

(re. SPOTY, surely Lewis Hamilton for teh win, regardless of what Selby achieves here, though best wait until Wimbledon out of the way just in case there's a surge of Andy MurrayMania befire tootling off to the bookies. Snooker players just don't register any more)

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not unconvinced that he could do it either. The amazing thing is that it wasn't Higgins' fault - just that Selby got a start and he played as incredibly as Higgins has for many years. Selby will be gutted by that kick on the last frame, putting an extra half an hour on it so that only six frames could be completed.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 May 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

WOAH -- I thought Selby would go down this afternoon based on last night, or I would have stayed in to watch the tv, but blimey, tonight might be a cracker!

― byebyepride, Monday, 7 May 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

I ws thinking of going to see a movie but going all fluey last night prevented me from (probably) repeating the v same mistake I talked about at the start of this thread.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 May 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42895000/jpg/_42895065_selby203getty.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 May 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

I can't work out if Higgins was actually genuinely amused there or whether he was all "yeah, yeah, you're funny, now fuck off" at Selby. I'm enjoying this hugely anyway, though Higgins has been utterly rotten all day today.

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

So, only six frames this afternoon - what was all that about? Just ran out of time? I've never known a session to be truncated by two before.

13-11 at 9:15pm - it's gonna be a late one.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, they explained it during the last frame - the players need a chance to rest/refresh/compose themselves, and that's more important than the 8/8 thing. Especially after having played at this level for 16 days already.

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

Won't they continue on Tuesday if it's still not over by, say, midnight?

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

No, it'll be one of these epic "where were you when..." Dennis Taylor v Steve Davis in 1985 corkers with everyone sleeping in for work tomorrow morning.

They actually explained it away earlier on the BBC as due to other telly needing to be shown because I for one really REALLY needed to watch Eggheads and the Great British Menu rather than any more snooker, erm, hang on a sec...

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

LOL at 1 person clapping 1 time before realising they're the only one and stopping - "Great shot! ... oh, it wasn't, I R pwnd"

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Selby was 100-1 at the bookmakers after last night!

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

go on mark

― ken c, Monday, 7 May 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

Go on both of them! It's midnight over here and there's still a possible 9 frames to go (if it's going to be 17-18 or 18-17) - 9 x 45 minutes is going to finish, like, next week or something! OMG!

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

I might have to revise my answer on the hours-of-sleep thread after this. Seriously, I might just nick off to bed and they'll proably still be playing this yellow when I get back up at 6.30.

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

This is insane - 21min on one ball. They've already cited the Griffiths-Thorburn match from '83 - the one that finished at 3:51am (see also: Pernfors-Wilander at the US Open) despite The Grinder knocking in a 147.

I'm going to say Higgins 18-15 around 2am. I know I won't see the end. Of this frame.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

epic.

the misses on the brown, the flukey pot, then snookered on the blue...

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

Aye, I'm loving this. Anything involving Griffiths/Thorburn/Charlton or whatever = yawnsville, not to mention that tedious Dott/Ebdon final last year. This, however = total stone cold classic. Expect to find me slumped over my desk in a big yawning heap some time tomorrow (if I'm not still watching this!)

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

Oh well, I'm off to bed. My bedside portable has a sleep function on it (which I used to great effect during the '94 World Cup), so I might just turn the sound right down and have it set for another three hours.

I think Higgins would streak away with frame 28 but it's another safety battle...

― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

They're playing like they don't have to go to work tomorrow, these two.

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

next frame, more safety..

i'd love a sleep function on my radio.

I need a new clock radio

I want DAB and Alarm and Sleep function.

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

think > thought

I bet Ava comes into our bed if it gets to 17-17.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

bugger, higgins goes 2 head again...

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

maybe not...

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

he has.

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

cor century

― ken c, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

12 hours later

― ken c, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

After 12 hours and 3 minutes, stick a fork in it.

xp

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

Poor Mark :-/

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

Let's not take away from Higgins though, eh?

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

Excellent stuff. Higgins showed class in those last few frames. Where did he pull that out from? I was so sure this was going to the final frame and a 3am finish.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

Well played John Higgins. Poor bastard had to give up booze and Celtic to win it! Those last three clearances were astonishing under the circumstances. He's a class act and having only one world title was never a fair reflection on how good he's been for the last 10 or 12 years.

Selby looks like a future winner, but then so do half of these young scamps who keep knocking stupid shots in for fun. He needs to sort out all this 1min48sec thinking time shite though - unless it's a stupid bastard hard snooker every player knows what shot he has to play within seconds. If he keeps that up I'm going to call him Edbon II and hate him.

That yellow ball. Fucking hell someone just pot the fucking thing then play safe on the green for five weeks!

― onimo, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, that yellow was like watching arsenal. SOMEONE FUCKING SHOOT.

― ken c, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

Selby looks like a future winner, but then so do half of these young scamps who keep knocking stupid shots in for fun. He needs to sort out all this 1min48sec thinking time shite though - unless it's a stupid bastard hard snooker every player knows what shot he has to play within seconds.

That's because he's still basically a pool player trying to be a snooker player - does the daft/spectacular shots so well, but still learning on the tactics front. I think.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:22 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, pool players are noted for fucking around all day picking shots out.

― onimo, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

No, that's not what I meant. I meant when he realises that the knocking-shots-in pool-player tactics aren't going to work in a a situation, and he actually has to think about the long game, he's not quite so good at that yet, because it's a different skill. I may be wrong. Hence the "I think" tagged on the end.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

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