Can you solve it? Gods of snooker Alex Bellos
My cultural highlight of recent weeks has been the brilliant BBC documentary
Gods of Snooker, about the time in the 1980s when the sport was a national obsession. Today’s puzzle describes a shot to malfunction the Romford Robot (above left) and put the Whirlwind (above right) in a spin.
Baize theorem
A square snooker table has three corner pockets, as below. A ball is placed at the remaining corner (bottom left). Show that there is no way you can hit the ball so that it returns to its starting position.
by Stephen Chapman
Amazon will premiere the film adaptation of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie in September.
Inspired by true events, Jamie New (Max Harwood) is a teenager from Sheffield who dreams of life on stage and reveals his secret career ambition to become a “fierce and proud drag queen.”
The original musical premiered at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre, before transferring to London’s Apollo Theatre, where it became an overnight success, with 5 Olivier Award Nominations.
The film has been made by New Regency, Film4 and Warp Films and features Sarah Lancashire, Lauren Patel, Shobna Gulati, Ralph Ineson, Adeel Akhtar, Samuel Bottomley, with Sharon Horgan and Richard E. Grant
I don’t believe that you need to be of a certain age to enjoy Gods of Snooker (available on iPlayer). My hunch is that even people who weren’t there at the time will have found themselves strangely bewitched by the sight of so many rayon-clad bottoms pointing ever skywards (the table-side contortions of the average Eighties snooker star would bring to mind Nijinsky about to
Impact of Leicester s FA Cup semi-final on covid infection rate revealed
The FA Cup semi-final between Leicester and Southampton resulted in no coronavirus cases
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Pilot events for crowds gathering, including Leicester s FA Cup semi-final, have resulted in just 15 positive cases of Covid-19, according to the Culture Secretary.