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Originally Posted by Steedeel
Steve Davis was my hero. I got a six foot ‘pot Black’ snooker table for Christmas as a kid. I absolutely loved it.
Cricket, I can tolerate England Internationals but not so much the county stuff.
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I was a bit surprised (but glad to see) that the BBC got a few live Premier League games earlier this summer (normally Sky and BT Sports get the majority of the season's live games, with a few given to Amazon as well). I didn't see them, but I remember seeing them in the Saturday and Sunday TV listings.
Then very recently I saw in the BBC listings some live cricket matches (both men's and women's matches). They could have been the one day internationals and not the test matches which take place over a few days.
I know Steve Davis was labelled as boring (was his nickname 'Interesting'?), but he was one of my favourite snooker players as well (along with Jimmy White). Back then there were plenty of characters. Used to enjoy watching Big Break (they always played a bit of that song by I think The Undertones, whenever Jimmy White walked onto the set).
Haven't played snooker in years. There used to be a local snooker club, but it's been closed for a long time now. You could play on the Riley tables.