One of the biggest debates about snooker concerns whether it is a sport or merely a game. There’s no correct answer, of course, because it has never been the right question. Snooker exists on a different plane. It’s not so much a sport or a game as a balm for the soul in a battered world.
There are many of us who had wrongly assumed that snooker’s golden age had irredeemably passed: that it was bound to the scrap heap of glittering late-20th century cultural icons like Spitting Image and Grange Hill and Yes, Minister and Rubik’s Cube.
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- April 30, 2022
