World Snooker Championship, working for Eurosport as a pundit, and with the morning free, is heading to a snooker club to do a bit of practice.
As he walks in, he sees that there on one of the tables is a set of balls laid out ready for a game.‘Hang on,’ he says. ‘Watch this.’He hands his phone to the club’s manager and asks him to film what happens next.
He then takes a cue from the rack, goes to the table, leans over and with a brisk, precise flourish, smacks the white ball, sending a red fizzing into a pocket.
If a snooker shot can ever be described thus, then the graceful, lithe, athletic way White hits a ball remains a thing of beauty.‘Still got it,’ he says. ‘I tell you what, I can still do it.’This month snooker’s erstwhile bad boy.
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