# The noble art of the green baize: World snooker champs 2005

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**Created:** [April 26, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-noble-art-of-the-green-baize-world-snooker-champs-2005/301249 "2005-04-26T21:35:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-noble-art-of-the-green-baize-world-snooker-champs-2005/301249/1 "2005-04-26T21:35:07Z")

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Anyone following the snooker at the moment? If you’re in the UK you can hardly miss it, there’s approx 7 hours of snooker coverage on BBC2 _per day_! 😕 I love it, although I’m not a player myself. Its very absorbing, probably the most soothing TV out there.

I’d be amazed if Ronnie O’Sullivan has any fans whatsoever, a more graceless twat I have yet to see in UK sport. You have to say he does the buisness at the Crucible, although a meltdown is not out of the question. Stephen Hendry was in Zen-buddhist mode earlier this evening against Matthew Stephens, he didn’t miss a pot in three frames!!

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-noble-art-of-the-green-baize-world-snooker-champs-2005/301249/2 "2005-04-26T21:38:28Z")

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It is absorbing. But for me not as absorbing as Cricket. I’ve been known to watch an entire day’s coverage of a test match.

It’s even better on a large stereo tv, because the crowd humm is particularly soothing.

Oh, and I like Ronnie O’Sullivan. I dislike Steve Hendry.