Tom Lappin's Sporting Week: 'One by One British Women Surrender to the Allure of a Pallid, Satin-Painted Sportsman Leaning Over the Green Baize'
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MAY bank holidays used to be hell before snooker. It's difficult to credit, but demanding wives would suggest that their husbands, who knew instinctively that these precious Mondays were intended to offer the relaxation of an afternoon on the sofa catching up with arcane sporting pursuits, should take the family on some infernal trip to a beach or a castle or, if there were no offspring involved, to an out of town DIY megastore of a fiendishness undreamt-of even in Dante's fervid imagination.
The World Championship snooker final changed a nation for the better. One by one British women surrendered to the allure of a pallid, satin-panted sportsman leaning over the green baize for the best of 35 frames. Now the collective female fervour is such that any cheery sort this afternoon waving the car-keys at their wife and suggesting a run out to Tantallon will be told very firmly to keep it down because Matthew Stevens is about to attempt a tricky long green into the top pocket.See the full content of this document
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Tom Lappin's Sporting Week: 'One by One British Women Surrender to the Allure of a Pallid, Satin-Painted Sportsman Leaning Over the Green Baize'
I heard one compelling if vaguely sexist explanation of the unique appeal of snooker to the distaff half of the population. Apparently it is rooted in the unusual spectacle...
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