- Snooker is a game of skill with just the right amount of luck to keep it interesting.
- A game that encourages sportsmanship. You keep quiet while the other player cues.
- Snooker give a chance for ordinary working-class to get to the top and be know by your nickname as ‘The Hurricane’ or ‘The Rocket’.
- It’s on the TV regularly and is very relaxing to watch.
- Teaches you to hold your nerve under pressure. Even low standard games can develop into real tension and drama.
- You can play it to high standard even when past your physical prime for other sports like football. You can play with dodgy knees etc.
- It’s a smart status symbol to have your own full-size snooker table at home.
- An individual game but can also be a team game.
- Requires intense powers of concentration. That is an attribute worth having.
- It is extremely difficult to master such a precision sport and so the youth who takes up snooker is occupied for countless hours.
( …For space reasons I can’t list the full 147 reasons why snooker is great. )
Snooker was invented British Army officers in India. Snooker’s biggest break was when David Attenborough commissioned the Pot Black snooker tournament for the BBC to demonstrate the eyeball potential of colour television. The green table and multi-coloured balls was ideal for showing off the advantages of colour TV. Yes, indeed, snooker wasn’t popular when watching in black & white!
Sportsmanship
Snooker is a game associated with sportsmanship where if a player knows that he has accidentally touch a ball he will admit it and call a fault on himself. Every year on TV we see examples of such great professional sportsmanship – unlike, for example, the diving and cheating in football.
Status
When guys make it big in business one of the first luxuries in their mansion house is a snooker/pool room. I applaud such coolness. There is nothing better than inviting your buddies round to your house to play snooker. This traces it’s roots back in time to the upper crust in stately homes that were big enough to house snooker/billard tables.
Sponsorship
Snooker has had to overcome the loss of tobacco sponsorship which was banned from UK sporting events from 2005. Step in the gambling industry with the likes of 888.com and Betfred. Draw your own conclusion.
Snooker in TV
Snooker on TV is the most hypnotic, relaxing game ever devised. After a hard day’s work is it nice to switch off and slip into a trance while the players endure the intense pressure ‘The Crucible’.
With the snooker world championship on the TV ….
There’s always a chance of the an upset like where 52 year old, former champion Steve Davis beat the defending champion John Higgins. This brings to mind his epic black-ball final against Dennis Taylor in 1985 where 18 million stayed up late to watch the drama. Not many sportsman can still compete at the top level beyond 50. ( Maybe Tom Watson at golf might be another example. ) Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. People said Davis should have retired from the sport years ago, but when you love a game that much you mustn’t give it up.
We get to know the characters and style of the top snooker players who often develop a rapport with the crowd as part of their craft. Top snooker is a serious professional sport but the players also develop as entertainers in exhibition matches.
Snooker Nicknames
Snooker players have fun nicknames: The Hurriance, The Rocket, The Captain, The Jester From Leicester, The Nugget, The Whirlwind, The Wonder Bairn, The Sheriff of Pottingham, Steady Eddie,The Pocket Dynamo, The Wizard of Wishaw, The Thunder from Down Under, Angles McManus, On-Fire Maguire, Beckham of the Baize, Willie Thorne – The ‘Homer Simpson’ of Snooker!
There will always be punters who hanker after the good-old-days when pro snooker players had more flair and showmanship, but that sort of nostalgia is a trick our mind plays on us to glorify the past with very selective editing.
Snooker Waistcoats
To be a master of the verdant six-bagged oblong it’s important to look the part.
When you dress up to complete in a sport you are more likely to adhere to the etiquette. Dress like a gentlemen and it’s amazing that you are more likely to behave like a gent. Confidence in your appearance leads to confidence in your play.
Wearing a waistcoat and bow is mandatory for professional snooker players. The waistcoat is practical, as well as stylish, because it hold in your shirt and stops you fouling the balls as you lean over. A bow tie is better than a tie flopping all over your balls.
Dress like a champion, play like a champion.
Here’s the link for you to get kitted out in a snooker waistcoat with matching bow tie: See our Mr. Snooker waistcoats.
Mr. Snooker Waistcoat in Red, Purple, Black, Aqua Blue, Gold
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