by Esmé Kenney | Apr 15, 2024 11:57AM | Sport
Barry Hearn and Ronnie O’Sullivan are among those who are calling for the World Snooker Championships to change location, after being held at Sheffield’s Crucible for 48 consecutive years. Barry Hearn, the sports promoter who played a huge role in making snooker a...
by Laurence Griffin | Apr 24, 2023 1:48PM | News, Sport
As the Snooker World Championship begins its final week at the Crucible, seven Sheffield-based players are being investigated for match-fixing. 2021 Masters champion Yan Bingtao and world no. 9 Zhao Xintong train at the Victoria’s Snooker Academy in the city,...
by Cosmo Teare | May 4, 2021 4:10PM | News
Disability rights groups have welcomed the government’s U-turn on allowing “clinically extremely vulnerable” people to attend test events such as the World Snooker Championships in Sheffield. Initially, those in the “clinically extremely vulnerable” category were...
