"Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right."
"Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen."
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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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