I suggested that the final of this year's World Snooker Championship would be "remembered fondly only by…'hardcore' lovers of snooker pain and suffering" but also that it could end up being a …

"Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right." - Clive James.

I know things have been deathly quite around the corridors of fustar.info of late, but I went into a kind …