Two snooker related things worth marking your cards for if you have access to Sky Sports.
The last 64 draw for the new Sky Shootout will precede the Premier League final tonight on Sky Sports4 from 7pm.
And then on Thursday at 10pm on Sky Sports1 the programme Times of Our Lives will feature a chat between Steve Davis, Dennis Taylor and Joe Johnson about the snooker boom of the 1980s.
They will be talking about their world finals and life at the top of a sport that, for a time, was bigger than any other on British TV.
good to hear that
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Should be a great programme on Thursday. Just hope it's being presented by someone who knows what he's talking about. Or at the very least informs himself properly in advance.
ReplyDeleteI believe it's Gary Newbon, who did the darts edition very well.
ReplyDeleteThe draw will be interesting is it the top 64 players taking part in the Sky Shootout?
ReplyDeleteits not on my tv
ReplyDeleteWell they appear not to be making the draw
ReplyDeleteThe moral: don't listen to World Snooker
sokay davey
ReplyDeletei wont shoot the messaANGER
How the sport today cries out for characters like Davis/Taylor/Johnson. Heady times, indeed.
ReplyDeleteThe likes of Judd Trump and Peter Ebdon don't really get the juices flowing*
*Disclaimer - Judd and Ebdon are not alone in the Boredom League, in fact, the league is rather competitive.
Was snooker bigger than football in the 1980's on television, as I find that pretty staggering?
ReplyDeleteI am not disputing it, just a little surprised as it always been our national sport.
relatively it was, Jamie
ReplyDeleteYes Jamie,Snooker was the biggest domestic TV sport in that era.
ReplyDeleteProbably upto the early 1990s when Football cleaned itself up with allseater stadia and a more family friendly atmsophere plus the Sky money.
In the same period Snooker could no longer maintain it's ultra high profile nature due to numerous internal and external factors which are only just being addressed all these years later.
15 million viewers were the norm for finals back in the 1980s. In truth football overtook snooker (and everything else) when the Premier League broke away from the others.
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