Trump suffers shock defeat!!!

[Gob]

Tournament favourite Judd Trump has been knocked out of the World Championship by world number 54 Rory McLeod in a remarkable first-round 10-8 win.



McLeod, a 46-year-old 1000-1 outsider, led 9-7 when slow play meant the match had to be halted prior to Wednesday's afternoon session.

An out-of-sorts Trump won a scrappy opening frame when their match resumed in the evening, but the Leicester man sealed what he called "the biggest win of his career" to reach the last 32.

Earlier, former world champion Graeme Dott earned a tense 10-7 victory over two-time finalist Ali Carter.

As exciting as the Dott-Carter contest was, it never got close to reproducing the drama between Trump and rank outsider McLeod, who has only previously reached the second round at the Crucible once in his long career.

[BoSoxGal]

[Bicycle Bill]

You might have mentioned that they were playing snooker.
Yet another obscure British permutation of a sport (in this case, billiards) that, for obvious reasons, should be kept in Britain.

-"BB"-

[Gob]

Oh dear, you colonials and your lack of worldliness...

Snooker is a cue sport which originated in India in the latter half of the 19th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker


King Louis XI of France (1461–1483) had the first known indoor billiard table.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sports#History

"There are few more cheerful sights, when the evenings are long, and the weather dull, than a handsome, well-lighted billiard room, with the smooth, green surface of the billiard table; the ivory balls flying noiselessly here and there, or clicking musically together."

— Charles Dickens (1889)