I know people like on here like to see classic old clips.

Well it doesn’t get much older than this.

This clip was filmed sometime circa 1910-1920, maybe earlier.

Fairly certain it’s snooker, but it could be some other obscure cue sport. Enjoy.

World Championship 2008, The Final

Twenty sixth frame of the final between Ronnie O’Sullivan and Ali Carter in the 2008 World Snooker Championship. Part 1.

“It was nice to give the crowd something to cheer about at the end,” said O’Sullivan. “This is a great venue and a great tournament but my snooker tonight was not great, it was so poor. I played 16 poor frames but everyone now will be talking about the 147 so I feel like I’ve cheated, or taken a short cut. I’d rather have won 9-3, playing solid and not making any unforced errors. “The first black in the 147 was a blind shot but it wasn’t as hard as it looked. It was 8-8 and I felt like I wanted to get something out of the game, to go out in a blaze of glory. Once I got to 40 I decided to go for it, and I felt a few butterflies which was good. “It’s nice to get to eight 147s, I’d like to get to double figures, maybe get one at the Masters and at Sheffield and make four this season.

“Mark had the upper hand for most of the match, he’s a tough competitor, you don’t get to a world final otherwise. At 6-3 I was losing it, really struggling. There was no fluency, no power or finesse in my shots. I was a foot out on some of my positional shots.” As for the match with Maguire, O’Sullivan added: “Stephen said in an interview that he’s been watching me and noticed I’m giving away chances. He’s right, and only a few people would recognise that. I’ve been playing quickly and scoring ok, which has camouflaged the fact that I’m making a lot of mistakes. The bookmakers will make me favourite for tomorrow but I’d make Stephen favourite. If I play like I did today I’ll get beaten because Stephen is a winner.”

Selby said: “It was a brilliant end to the match. I’ve had a good week and I wouldn’t change anything. At 7-5 I had a good chance in the balls and after that it seemed to change.”

Well, I

Here are a few great snooker coaching tips from Steve Davis the great.

Ronnie O’Sullivan finished his 888.com World Snooker Championship match against Mark Williams in glorious style by making a record ninth 147 maximum break. The Crucible crowd erupted as O’Sullivan potted the final ball of his magical maximum, the seventh made at the Crucible and O’Sullivan’s third – he is the only player to make more than one at Sheffield. The Rocket has over-taken Stephen Hendry as snooker’s maximum man, having surpassed the Scot’s record of eight. Chigwell’s 32-year-old O’Sullivan has now made three this season, following 147s in the Northern Ireland Trophy and one in the deciding frame of his Maplin UK Championship semi-final against Mark Selby. This one came in the last frame of a 13-7 defeat of Williams and put him through to the quarter-finals to face Liang Wenbo or Joe Swail. The match looked in the balance going into the concluding session at 9-7, but world No 5 O’Sullivan produced an incredible display of break-building to win the four frames he needed within 44 minutes. Runs of 71, 60 and 100 put him 12-7 ahead, then he split the reds early in the next frame, clearly setting about a maximum from the early stages. He was never out of position, playing a superb shot on the 13th black to dislodge one awkward red from the pink, then dished up easily. Stephen Maguire and Neil Robertson stopped their match on the adjacent table in the closing stages of the break, then joined Williams in congratulating O’Sullivan, who will collect a

Snooker – Ronnie O’Sullivan – World Championship 1997

This snooker video makes up a nice little string of 10 lucky tricky and planned snooker shots.