How to lose friends and alienate snooker players at the Crucible
Fail to follow the etiquette of the baize and this could happen to you.
With its waistcoats, bow ties and shiny shoes, snooker is unsurprisingly a sport chock full of conventions and manners.
And while you’re unlikely to be punished for failing to abide by the etiquette the game holds dear, behaving in the following manner will definitely make you an unpopular customer.
1. Chalking during an opponent’s shot
2. Not tapping the table in recognition of a good safety shot
3. Failing to declare a foul
Snooker players often declare a foul if they touch a ball and it goes unnoticed by the referee. The sport prides itself on that integrity, so don’t undermine it.
4. Challenging a referee’s touching ball decision
5. Deliberate fouling
6. Failing to clean up after yourself
7. Failing to raise your hand after a fluke
Going to pretend that was deliberate? OK.
8. Refusing to concede a frame
9. Moving in the line of the shot
Unless you’re both in on it for a giggle. Then it’s fine.
