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If anyone is interested the Masters is on. It makes a nice Saturday afternoon tv watching.

Veetle Link

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Why is it that when I mention the names Cliff Thorburn, Kirk Stevens and/or Alain Robidoux to a Canadian they look at me blankly? Ask any Brit over the age of 35 and they'll be sure to say that they watched the first televised 147 break etc.

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I watched cliff thorburns 147, was it the first one on TV?

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No.

"The first televised 147 was made by Steve Davis in the 1982 Lada Classic. In 1983, Cliff Thorburn became the first player to make a maximum break at the World Championships."

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It was indeed the first on TV. One of the most tallented/boring men in "sport"

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The Grinder :lol:

I loved watching the snooker in that era.

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There was another thread on snooker not so long ago. However, its always worth mentioning Big Bill Werbeniuk. A fine example of a proper sportsman - something for all Canadians to aspire to :thumbup:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...Werbeniuk.html

"He acquired a medical certificate which approved his beer-drinking, and became the envy of every armchair viewer when it was explained that he could offset the cost of beer against income tax."

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I believe it was he who had a doctor's note saying he had to drink beer while playing.

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I'd forgotten about big Bill Werbeniuk!

But my point was that although Canada had some great snooker players, including a world champion in Cliff Thorburn, Canadians generally hadn't heard of them. At least that's been my experience.

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An absorbing final on now.

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If all this coverage of bin Laden is getting on your nerves there's a great afternoon of good snooker on BBC 2.

Link

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Bugger - missed it - seems nerves got the better of the young lad :ohmy:

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It was a great game and yes the young lad seemed to tightened up near the end. Ooh that didn't come out right. :blink:
Anyway it was an absorbing match that was well accompanied by a nice chicken vindaloo lunch.

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Ted Lowe RIP http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit.../Ted-Lowe.html

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FYI. The World Snooker Championship starts tomorrow at the famed Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. I'm sure with a bit snooping around one could find a half decent stream.

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Anyone with a link let me know. I think Iplayer will have it, so perhaps time to warm up the vpn.

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They're [BBC] showing it live from 21 April to 7 May Times: Sessions at 1000, 1430 & 1900 BST and some highlights around midnight. If it's anything like last years competition it'll be a cracker. :thumbup:

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Im in the UK and loving the BBC snooker coverage!!! Watching Hendry take Higgins to the learning tree!! :D

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I do miss Snooker on the box from back in the day!!! .. call me naive, but I never in a million years thought it would be such a non event on Canadian TV (especially as mentioned above, those famous Canadian players from way back when!)

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C'mon Ronnie- starts now.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/watchlive/

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Bollox, what with the football and now this that has just done any chance of some work being done for rest of the morning. :(

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Final on BBC 2 nbow. O'Sullivan vs Carter.

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Most Canadians just have different ways to misspend their youth.

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The Chinese seem to have fallen in love with snooker with five of them getting through qualifying in the main draw. I think its a very healthy thing for the sport. :thumbup:

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Well that's it. Well done Ronnie O'Sullivan. :thumbup:

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I watched it live, what a fantastic player he (Ronnie) is. I was searching for his fastest 147 on youtube and stumbled upon this instead. Pure genius. Skip to 2m 15 secs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7We78kb1BeI

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Just genius.

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Have you ever seen anything like that in your life! Says Virgo at the end.

Brilliant.

Not as good as the 5 minute one but still brilliant.

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Just to let everyone know that the snooker world championships started today with Ronnie O defending his title. :thumbup:


Watch here

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It's on Eurosport TV in France, which is fine for the next few days. But I return to the land of the Midnight Iced Hockey on Thursday. Is it on TV there?

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You'll have to watch it online unfortunately as it can't compete with curling in Canada for airtime.

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Arrrrggghhh. Damned colonial philistines! (Although I quite like watching curling).

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I suppose if you've smoked a fat one it could be pass the time. I rather miss the One Man and His Dog competitions, especially the Christmas specials.

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A rather tasty match between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Ali Carter is on now.

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Lost its charm. No Willie Thorne, or Doug Mountjoy these days:(

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Ronnie's pretty good to watch but you're right, a lot of them are just boring naffers.

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I've not watched any of it. She would only naffing moan if i tried anyway:(

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HID is off to some present some bolloxy theory on bollox at a conference or something later this week so I envision, lots of lager, a large naff-off order of extra spicy Indian food and hours of snooker on the big telly. :thumbup: