snooker world championship

[quit yo jibbajabba]

What has Allen came out with in the past chaps?

Higgins has lost some timber and looks well for it

[An Watcher]

Allen could do with following his lead.  I don't think it is majorly important to be physically healthy in snooker but from a mental point of view I'm sure he could do with losing a few pounds.  Don't think he's the worst in the world but coming out to a press conference with his mouth taped up and things is a bit OTT.  Wouldn't see Higgins doing that sort of thing

[quit yo jibbajabba]

Allen deffo gettin heavier, as higgins had been for a good while. Fair play to him.
Aye theres the odd shot ye see them strugglin and ye know a couple stone less it be more straightforward. Higgins said he was strugglin with the breathin in the Worlds this year. Impressive weight loss since then

[GiveItToTheShooters]

I watched the last 4 or 5 frames myself (first snooker I've watched in a long time), I said to the wife as we were watching, I'm torn here as Higgins is a good Celtic man, Allen is a bit of a hateful hoor with some very unlikeable politics. Wasn't the greatest snooker but it was tense & exciting.

So how does that make you "torn" then?

[Milltown Row2]

I watched the last 4 or 5 frames myself (first snooker I've watched in a long time), I said to the wife as we were watching, I'm torn here as Higgins is a good Celtic man, Allen is a bit of a hateful hoor with some very unlikeable politics. Wasn't the greatest snooker but it was tense & exciting.

So how does that make you "torn" then?

Cheering on a scots man is plain daft when there is someone from here sure

[Boycey]

I don't care if Allen is a big loyalist hoor I was cheering for him last night 

[bannside]

I always follow John Higgins (not denying that him bring a Celtic supporter may influence that lol) but I know the Allen family and they wouldn't be the worst.

I used to work in a betting shop in Antrim, and sometime in the mid nineties one of the Allen's walked in (there were 6 brothers) with this wee cub about 8 or 9 and introduced him as someone who would win a World Snooker Title.

I was in two minds last night, but found myself cheering on Allen especially after coming back from 8 -6 down in the final session.

[NotedObserver]

Higgins seems a good fella but that match fixing scandal is unforgivable

[Boycey]

I asked here before did anyone follow snooker closely enough to know was there truth to the match fixing thing and also trawled the internet a bit but never found an answer.

My memory of it was that the video was pretty damning but their defence if u was that they were in an alien environment in a foreign country and were agreeing to what was being said to give themselves a chance to get out of the room and regroup?

Nothing ever came of it and from a distance Higgins seems very well regarded within snooker?

Edit: Theres a bit on it https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/sep/08/john-higgins-banned-cleared-match-fixing

[ONeill]

Any tips?

[ONeill]

The oldies are still the goodies.

[An Watcher]

Great to see Higgins through.  Played well in the final 2 frames but him and Jack were shocking in the earlier parts of the match.  Major improvement required but no better man

[An Watcher]

Higgins v Williams final be nice

[Tony Baloney]

I can't remember the last time there was a semifinal lineup with all previous winners (3 multiple winners).

[quit yo jibbajabba]

Means fud all on the scale of things but Trump has won 15 out of his last 16 frames played. Some run