World Champion Mark Selby Delighted As Leicester Lands Ranking Event

World champion Mark Selby is fired up about his home city of Leicester staging a first ever ranking tournament this season.  [ ... ]

World Champion Mark Selby Reduced To Tears By Leicester City's Heroic FA Cup Win

Mark Selby has revealed he was reduced to tears by the stunning FA Cup final success for his beloved Leicester City. The [ ... ]

Walker The Talker: Why This Snooker Season Is One I’ll Never Forget

After 32 Days of world class snooker in Sheffield, Sunday night saw our proud, humble sport enjoy a fitting finale [ ... ]

Judd Trump Named Snooker's Player Of The Year For Third Time In A Row

After another prolific season, Judd Trump has been named snooker’s Player of the Year for the third consecutive time [ ... ]

The Story Of The Historic 2021 Betfred Snooker World Championship

This year’s Betfred Snooker World Championship was one that will be remembered forever. Now that isn’t hyperbole [ ... ]

Mark Selby Joins Snooker’s Legends After Claiming Fourth World Title

Mark Selby brought the Crucible full house down on Monday night as he claimed a fourth world title to join snooker’s [ ... ]

Sell-Out Crowd At The Crucible Is A Fitting Farewell For World Snooker Supremo Hearn

The Crucible Theatre once more echoed to the sound of a huge roar from a sell-out crowd on Monday, and that proved a fitting [ ... ]

Murphy Calls For A Spectacular Show As Selby Holds 10-7 Overnight Lead

Shaun Murphy insists that the climax to the Betfred World Championship on Monday needs to be about a lot more than just [ ... ]

Gods Of Snooker – Louis Theroux’s New Doc On The Game’s Explosion In The 80s

There are no white supremacist groups, prisoners on Death Row, or religious zealots in Louis Theroux’s latest venture [ ... ]

Mark Selby Faces Shaun Murphy In World Championship Final After Marathon Semis

Mark Selby and Shaun Murphy will contest Sunday and Monday’s Betfred World Championship final – but both came [ ... ]

Despite Growing Challenge From China, This Year Features All-English Semi-Finals

It appears that confident predictions of snooker’s upper echelons being dominated by the Chinese may have been exaggerated [ ... ]

Kyren Wilson Boosted By 'Hulk Juice' As He Reaches World Championship Semi-Final

Kyren Wilson will take on Shaun Murphy in the Crucible semi-finals – and is now hoping to show the same stamina as [ ... ]

Mark Selby To Face Stuart Bingham In Betfred World Championship Semi-Final

Mark Selby is still looking good for a fourth world title – and will now face another former champion in Stuart Bingham [ ... ]

There's A New Quarter-Final World Champion Record For The Famous Crucible Almanac

There is an A4 size package  - that gets thicker every year – which arrives in the post at home around the start [ ... ]

World Number One Judd Trump Is Making His Mark On And Off The Table

Judd Trump is into the quarter-finals of the Betfred World Championship – and making an impression on the tournament [ ... ]

Mark Williams Channels His Inner Floyd Mayweather To Thump Higgins At The Crucible

Mark Williams left John Higgins punch-drunk at the Crucible on Saturday night – with the Scot saying it was like being [ ... ]

Neil Robertson Is Still The Man To Beat At The World Snooker Championship

In the eyes of many, Australia's Neil Robertson arrived at the Betfred World Championship as the man to beat at the [ ... ]

O’Sullivan’s Hopes Of Record-Equalling Seventh World Title Dashed By Anthony McGill

Ronnie O’Sullivan saw his hopes of a record-equalling seventh world title dashed by Scotland’s Anthony McGill [ ... ]

‘Class Of 1992’ Remain Centre Stage At The Crucible For World Championship

Snooker may have gone global in recent years, but three of the UK's homegrown stars – the famous ‘Class [ ... ]

Steve Davis: Sport’s 'Benevolent Dictator' Barry Hearn Would Cry Watching Lassie

Steve Davis insists ‘benevolent dictator’ Barry Hearn leaves a unique sporting legacy of pure entertainment [ ... ]

VR Mishaps, Pig Farms And American Hustles: When Ronnie O’Sullivan Hit Gold

As Ronnie O'Sullivan is currently looking to defend his Betfred World Snooker Championship at the Crucible in Sheffield, [ ... ]

John Higgins And Anthony McGill Save The Day For The Scots At World Championship

There was a point on Monday where it looked on the cards that there would be no Scottish players at all in the last 16 of [ ... ]

Barry Hearn Announces Retirement After 40 Years As UK’s Leading Sports Promoter

There could have been no more fitting venue for Barry Hearn to announce his retirement after 40 years as the UK’s [ ... ]

Judd Trump Aiming For More World Championships To Be Considered A Snooker Great

Judd Trump believes he will need to win a few more Betfred World Snooker Championships in order go down in history as one [ ... ]

Jamie Jones Proud Of Comeback After Knocking Out Maguire At World Championship

The first of the seeds has fallen at the Betfred World Snooker Championships, and it was at the hands of Welshman Jamie [ ... ]

'Yan The Man' Off To A Flier In Bid To Become Youngest Ever World Champion

Yan Bingtao is one step closer to becoming the youngest world champion in history after an accomplished victory over Martin [ ... ]

A Chilly Ronnie O'Sullivan Turns Up The Heat At The World Snooker Championship

A chilly O’Sullivan turned up the heat on his rivals on Saturday night with a 10-4 victory over debutant Mark Joyce.  [ ... ]

World Snooker Championship: Crucible Crowds Hoping To Blaze Trail Back To Normality

The snooker fans turning up on opening day of the Betfred World Championships had certainly proved themselves as the lifeblood [ ... ]

Ronnie O'Sullivan Claims He Could Have Won Ten World Titles Ahead Of Championship

Six-time champion Ronnie O’Sullivan insists he could have won 10 titles and revealed he has a somewhat ‘love/hate’ [ ... ]

Betfred World Snooker Championship Betting Preview: Shaun Murphy Offers Value

It has been exactly eight months since we crowned the 2020 Betfred World Snooker Champion. The Rocket won a 6th title, [ ... ]