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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.

Oh sugar!

SO IT’S 1-0 to me in the great Tesco sugar hunt.

Not feeling grand

THREE days earlier and it would have won Nigel Spiers a cool £1,000.

Matthew Le Tissier, a shoe-shine kit and a pin-up boy

HE EXPECTED a brick through his window after commenting “rather negatively” about Saints legend Matt Le Tissier.

Allinson: good for morale

IT WAS suggested by his teammates that Bob Allinson was only brought out of retirement in the 1980s because it would “be good for the morale of the team”.

Over the moon and sick as a pig

STUART Seaborn was over the moon and sick as a pig following Hedge End Club’s first derby pool match.

Being bombed was the worst part

WATCHING German bombs rain down on the nearby Cunliffe-Owen aircraft factory in Swaythling was the “worst” part of Roy Major’s 51 years working on the railways.

And the fifth name is Ashton

IT WAS an age when snooker professionals Mike Hallett, John Parrott, Cliff Wilson and Dean Reynolds were household names.

Finn: the Super League is boring

TOWN Champion Mike Finn has blasted the Super League format on the eve of the new season.