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My name is Tim Dunkley and in 2000 I discovered the wonders of junior snooker.
I help run the Saturday morning junior section at Chandler’s Ford Snooker Club, with club-boss Jim Everett, and run the afternoon £1,000 Under-21 Roll-Up. You may have read of the remarkable
exploits of the region’s top young players in the Daily Echo every Saturday.
As well as holding down a full-time job, away from the green baize, I am a World Snooker Asociation coach, a press officer for the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association and a member of the
Snooker Writers' Association.
THE Grinder insists he has speeded up and Alex Chircop was in Eric Cantona mode.
WORLD Snooker chairman Barry Hearn has dismissed Mark Allen as “a silly little boy”.
DAVE Murrey is happy to sit on the bench nowadays because he’s “got to get up early in the morning for golf”.
RICHIE Staines is amazing because he does things no one else can do.
IT’S a 649,740-to-one chance that most cribbage players never see before they peg out.
SKIPPER Alan Hamilton, 61, reckons he used to play as quickly as the youngsters in his snooker team.
PROVIDING he stayed awake long enough, seven-year-old Bowen Zhu would have been delighted with Ding Junhui’s performance at Southampton Guildhall on Thursday night.
NO ONE seems to know his surname but the team “love him to bits”.
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