Whatever happens, and however little snooker matters to the wider world, Australian Neil Robertson is a champion. The “Melbourne Machine” has done it: winning the Snooker World Championship in Sheffield last night — the first non-Brit to take the title in 30 years.
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Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Tories snookered by a Lib-Dem rise
The UK snooker championships has just commenced at the venerable Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, with a blinder of a match. Meanwhile a volcano erupted. Oh, and an election…
Guy Rundle: I’m no sports reporter, but…I like snooker
Neil Robertson, the Melbourne machine, stormed to a stonking 13-8 victory in the quarter-finals of the World Cup snooker championships.
Guy Rundle: Jumping the eight ball on a future snooker great
Beneath the sponsored waiter’s outfits and the dickie bow-ties, snooker has a merciless animality which leaves cage wrestling for dead.
