Must admit to liking snooker – come from a family where the best sports are ones you can play with a drink in your hand. My parents ran a working men's club and a pubs darts league – all my childhood spent sitting on pub steps, with a bottle of Golden Lemonade and a packet of crisps, as my folks delivered the fixture lists.
So, the snooker event is a big one for my folks. Craig, did you see this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/snooker/22007129Has a great second paragraph... "Aaah, when snooker was a gentleman's game. The golden age, when players would nut officials and threaten to kill fellow pros (Alex Higgins), snort cocaine (Cliff Thorburn, Kirk Stevens ) fix matches (Peter Francisco), drink 24 pints before a match (Bill Werbeniuk) and sell "sordid" sex tales to tabloids (Tony Knowles). No wonder Steve Davis used to win everything."
My mum LOVES Ronnie O – spends the whole of his matches shouting at the TV. Bought them tickets for the Crucible one year but they didn't like it because they couldn't shout "Piss off" really loud to the referees. Phoned her to say hi last night but she just told me to go away as the snooker was on...
Golf, on the other hand, is just shit...x