Hello and welcome! I’m Alex and this is my Cluster of Reds Snooker Blog! If you are indeed revisiting this post, hello again! If you are revisiting the third time – you have too much time on your hands (says me, I suppose.) If it is more than that, then at least my intro is more bearable than watching Stormbreaker, a film that has haunted me to this very day (this isn’t saying much, I much admit).
So why am I writing a blog about snooker? I love the sport, I know a number of people who enjoy it and I want to express my views about it! I started supporting snooker avidly since 2011, when a young Judd Trump came onto the scene during the World Championships with his naughty snooker, eventually losing to John Higgins. I was engrossed, mainly because ignorant me thought it odd not hearing of snooker without hearing Stephen Hendry or Ronnie O’Sullivan for once. I went to my first live match in Cardiff, watching the first session of the final of the Welsh Open between Higgins and Ben Woollaston.
So why write a blog at all? Well, a friend complained that I watch such a boring sport more than necessary so I thought ‘why not put my watching of snooker to good use?’ Then I had a bacon sandwich and digressed for a month before writing up a number of articles including this one. Then had another bacon sandwich.
What will this blog contain? I will try and write as much as I can. I want to write in-depth articles and topics all relating to the sport – the Olympics, women in snooker, the history of the Masters, that sort of thing and try and get a few polls going to see what fans actually think later down the line. There will be tournament predictions, analysis on the rankings, my experiences and a few random tweets on why Takeshi’s Castle hasn’t been brought back yet. Important questions like this need to be answered.
So, I suppose I better get started on this tappity-tap-on-the-keyboard motion of eloquently putting forward my views about snooker before being lambasted for expressing them 🙂 . The Internet can be a very dangerous and provocative wildebeest indeed, so I’ve been told, and I only just set up a Twitter account…
