"Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right."
"Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves."
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Source: Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape
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