A sports bar around the corner Of the crucible have a "Midnite Lounge" that's got a snooker table that's free to play on and they're offering a free pint to those who have a crucible ticket. It's called BOX, obviously they're showing the snooker on the TVs aswell. Thought it was worth posting about for those who are lucky enough to visit Sheffield and fancy a pre game pint.
Live in Sheffield and always have a stroll down a couple of times. Here are a few photos
After the Mark Williams v Antoni Kowalski match finished, I switched over to BBC iPlayer to watch the remainder of the Xiao Guodong v Zhou Yuelong match, which was in the 8th frame. When that frame concluded, the transmission just ended as though it was the end of the session. My understanding was that they play 9 frames in the first session, so I went back into the BBC red button service, and there is just a BBC Sport card and background music, no live frame 9.
So I switched over to HBO Max to check, and sure enough, they are back playing frame 9 now as I type, so BBC ended the red button transmission early, which I feel it's very poor indeed. Especially if like me, you really wanted to see how the session ended, but thankfully I get TNT Sports on HBO Max through my TV provider.
He hits the ball so well and he’s mixing it with one of the best players of all time, fair play to him holding his own at the crucible. A testament to him that he’s able to control his emotions out there and compete with Mark Williams.
The first round games so far have been enthralling, Zhao hasn’t got going yet and is kinda fortunate to be 5-4 up but Highfield will be pleased how he grew into the match taking more risks and settling down and he should be leading in my opinion. Mark Allen is on the back foot too, he needs to get a grip on the match quickly against Zhang Anda who can run away when infront
Not sure about those new seats with a view of the cameraman's arse.
I have tickets for the 7pm session on Thursday (first time, can't wait!). Spending the weekend in Sheffield so would like to get to another session or two. Is it true that you can go to crucible box office on the morning and get resale tix?
I think the match threads on the soccer sub are really good and having a stickied round one post can lead to so many comments about different matches at the same time. Id enjoy match threads for the world's to discuss individual matches. Mods could put head to head into/facts about the 2 players in the post text.
Just a suggestion to see if anyone else would like it and we could hopefully ask the mods to start something similar?
I’ve just seen Carter and Higgins deep in conversation and I cannot understand it, you’re about to playing against each other in the world championship and you’re having a chinwag. That’s the last thing I’d wanna do, is there any explanation behind it other than players are too friendly now?. What do you reckon?
Sorry if you’re seeing this twice!
This is the first article I have written in years, but today’s action has inspired me to write again. I used to share my work in here.
Hopefully it’s a good read and there will be more to come.