RICHARD BULLICK: Let's hear it for the underdogs!
Reporter:
Friday 26 February 2021 9:47
EVERYONE loves an underdog and Antrim snooker player Jordan Brown rightly hogged the headlines in the past week after his stunning success in winning the Welsh Open.
It was a classic sporting rags to riches story, considering the unsung Ulsterman’s lowly world ranking of 81 and the fact he was a 750/1 outsider to triumph in this tournament.
Well though he’d done to get there, Brown was up against the most successful player in the sport’s history in the final so few would have given him much chance of a fairytale ending.