REUTERS: Park a snooker table inside Sheffield's Crucible Theatre and weird and wonderful things can occur.
On Friday, snooker's spiritual home since 1977 witnessed more magic as England's Kyren Wilson beat Anthony McGill 17-16 in a semi-final decided in a surreal last frame. The Scot was almost as lost for words later in the night as O'Sullivan somehow fashioned a 17-16 win over Mark Selby by winning the last three frames having riled his opponent by crashing the cue ball around the table to lose the 30th frame rather than attempt to get out of a snooker.
When the pandemic forced organisers to postpone the championship in April, it deprived millions of locked-down Britons the reassuring click of colliding snooker balls.Thankfully this year's event was given a new late July slot and with the country still mired in a health crisis, the kings of the green baize have provided a much-needed distraction from the daily diet of coronavirus updates.
Given Friday's incredible semi-finals, it would surely be asking too much for this weekend's decider to come anywhere close to Taylor's 'black ball' decider against Davis in 1985 - the climax of which was watched by one third of Britain's population - still a post-midnight viewing record. The 36-year-old duly sunk the black and as the crowd erupted he brandished his cue above his head in a celebration that has become part of British TV folklore.
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