Snooker: Sethi settles for local heroism Billiards graced the green baize in Liverpool this week but few wanted to watch the British Open. By Guy Hodgson

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: March 12, 1999 | Copyright information

YOU DID not need to know that billiards is the poor relation of snooker, the venue told you. A converted Victorian terrace guarded by a large, loud and lethal-looking Alsatian was pleasant enough but no one would put it on a par with The Crucible. Come to think about it, the practice area in Sheffield is bigger never mind the arena.

The crowd, if you could call it that, told a similar tale. Forty souls had wandered in off Liverpool's busy Derby Lane to watch Chris Shutt beat Rex Williams 1319-210 in the semi-finals whereas 20 times as many at least would have been attracted if the Strachan ...

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