Higgins played Maguire, and to begin with it was brilliant because Maguire was really really pretending to be a grown up snooker player, he didn’t take things on, he played safe, he calmed down, it was AMAZING. And then John Higgins got a bit behind and went ‘OH SNOOKER’ and woke up and Maguire fell about a bit and was all himself again and OH MAGUIRE DO TRY.
Life is so easy when you don’t worry about John Higgins being behind. He was 5-3 and it went to 5-6 and Dennis was all ‘Well, would you believe it???’ and the rest of the world was very ‘Yes, Dennis, this is all John does, match after match, year after year.’
Shaun Murphy is playing Robertson, apparently it is quite a good match, I can’t look at it. The bbc are making it hard to miss, because they’ve got it on real telly and red button telly. I think they’re having a trouble because if their programme is only half an hour long and they show the best match for half an hour and the other match on red button, when they disappear you’re left only watching the rubbish match. But when they’ve got ALL AFTERNOON of real telly I think they could take a chance.
Has Shaun Murphy dyed his hair? Has it always been that funny colour? Do I just never look at him?
Williams is playing Mark Joyce, it used to be 4-0. I liked it when it was 4-0.
My favourite bit of the interview with Hendry where Hendry was all NOTHING WORKS, OKAY? And everyone was like ‘so you’re going to retire?’ and Hendry went ‘no, what.’ My favourite bit was when he said that Mark Williams was at the peak of his career and the interviewer sort of laughed at him and said not really the PEAK and he went ‘well I’d say he was’. He’s hilarious.
Hazel thinks Mark is mercurial. She also thinks John’s walk on music is the best in the world. I think that might be true if Ding didn’t exist.
