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1 month ago | 
sportsboom.com | S. MacDermott |Louis Hobbs |Shane MacDermott
Kyren Wilson believes breaking the Crucible Curse will make his season the best in snooker history. The world champion landed his fourth ranking crown of the campaign as he edged rival Judd Trump 10-9 in an epic Players Championship showpiece on Sunday night. He is only the seventh player in history to achieve the feat and joined an elite club which includes Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Selby, Ding Junhui and Trump.
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1 month ago | 
sportsboom.com | S. MacDermott |Louis Hobbs |Shane MacDermott
Former Irish National Hunt jockey Daryl Jacob believes Galopin Des Champs will rewrite the record books at this week’s Cheltenham Festival. Willie Mullins’ heavily-fancied mount looks destined to emulate Best Mate and Arkle by winning three successive Gold Cups. Paul Townsend rode the nine-year-old gelding to a third straight Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown last month and is eying up another special hat-trick at Prestbury Park when he lines up on Friday.
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1 month ago | 
sportsboom.com | S. MacDermott |Louis Hobbs |Shane MacDermott
Snooker star Judd Trump hopes home comforts can inspire him to glory at this week’s World Grand Prix in Hong Kong. The event has received a significant boost in prize money this year with the overall prize pot going from £380,000 to £700,000 and the winner’s slice rising from £100,000 to £180,000. It is a move which highlights the global appeal of the sport and the riches on offer in the Far East and Saudi Arabia for the players.
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1 month ago | 
sportsboom.com | S. MacDermott |Louis Hobbs |Shane MacDermott
Former Aston Villa forward Garry Thompson believes Unai Emery’s side have to make the most of their home tie if they are to progress to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. The Villains travel to Club Brugge, where they lost 1-0 in the group stage, on Tuesday before hosting them for the return leg on Wednesday 12 March.
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1 month ago | 
sportsboom.com | S. MacDermott |Louis Hobbs |Shane MacDermott
Oxford United star Cameron Brannagan wants to complete his storied journey with the club by one day securing a dream return to the Premier League. The ambitious central midfielder has played a pivotal part in the U’s long road to the second tier, where they are plying their trade for the first time this century.
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1 month ago | 
sportsboom.com | S. MacDermott |Louis Hobbs |Shane MacDermott
Former Aston Villa forward Garry Thompson was “disappointed” by Jhon Durán’s shock Saudi cash grab. The Colombian international joined Cristiano Ronaldo at Al-Nassr when he moved to the club for £64.5million at the end of the transfer window. Twenty-one-year-old Durán was playing Champions League football, but gave that up for a mega-money contract in the sports-washing country. He has had a dazzling start to life in the Middle East, netting four goals in his first three appearances.
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2 months ago | 
sportsboom.com | S. MacDermott |Louis Hobbs |Shane MacDermott
Mark Selby fired an early warning shot to his World Championship rivals as he pocketed a second ranking title of the season at the Welsh Open. The four-time world champion, 41, is the sport’s ultimate match-player and knows exactly what it takes to be the last man standing after snooker’s 17-day Sheffield marathon. World No.3 Selby ended an 18-month ranking-title drought at the British Open back in September before going quiet during the middle part of the campaign.
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2 months ago | 
sportsboom.com | S. MacDermott |Louis Hobbs |Shane MacDermott
Former Coventry City midfielder Garry Thompson admits he has been forced to eat “humble pie” after Frank Lampard turned the club’s fortunes around. Thompson was left less than impressed with the Sky Blues’ sacking of Mark Robins, who had taken the club from the depths of despair in League Two to missing out on the Premier League in the 2023 play-off final, earlier this season with the side struggling near the relegation places.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
sportsboom.com | S. MacDermott |Louis Hobbs |Shane MacDermott
New signing Joe Taylor is channelling his inner Luke Littler in his bid to fire Huddersfield Town back to the Championship. The Terriers’ new hitman was one of the millions who watched the teenage sensation become the youngest world champion in darts history earlier this month. Littler has taken to darts like a duck to water and Taylor, a handy arrow thrower himself, hopes to bed into the West Yorkshire club just as easily.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
sportsboom.com | S. MacDermott |Louis Hobbs |Shane MacDermott
Chris Wakelin is buzzing about the prospect of making a dream Masters debut — but warned the field “I’m not here for a day out”. The 32-year-old has propelled himself up the rankings in the past two years to qualify for the elite 16-man event at London’s iconic Alexandra Palace.
