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Same reason we would get to way more 20+ pages of dialogue if it had happened between two regulars at the deep end of big tournaments.

More visits?

Which memo? MR has stated that it allows a player to represent a country based on permanent residence (which Fedor Gorst has just received from the USA). Many sporting authorities require citizenship, others have a period of a couple of years grace or more before someone can represent a...

I think Matchroom's decision has been vindicated by the reaction on the ground to the Hanoi Open. Hoang Sao ("Quoc" as you call him) has indeed been the poster boy based on his results in Matchroom events eleswhere but I think the Vietnamese contingent equipped themselves pretty well in this...

Gorst conceded.

I'm not going to into a "worst places I've been" fest but there are far worse places. I know that doesn't help anyone who lives in a challenging place but it's true. I'm not the one to challenge here, maybe consider challenging (but maybe don't bother) those who call countries outside their...

Same could be said for every country in the world other than a handful of islands and city states, but even then ... Anyway my comment wasn't based on Moscow or St Petersburg despite one of them being the place that Fedor might live now if he chose to play professional pool out of Russia.

Quite a few of those players had a crack at the Hanoi open and despite their results had a great time.

He had already found a way to "escape". Russia isn't nearly a bad place as its made out to be but has to look after himself.

He downplays it but I think he has a passion, for reasons that will likely remain his own, for the game.

They already do so maybe no need to start.

You know the game. But you have gone down in my estimation almost everytime you post about something important. And then you post this crap....

Yes he's known as the Martian, which is actually a play on words on his name in Vietnamese. I imagine he is used to the "phuc yu" jokes and will laugh them off when foreigners make them but......

Haven't read any posts and probably best I don't but there is more luck in pool than most people think. Having said that, race to 1.5 or longer best player usually wins.

Shaw has no reason to switch sides. Fedor does and the very best of luck to him.

Yes. I can't play or do many sports at nearly the same level as I used to be able to. But I am in as much awe of those who excel in them as I was of my heroes when I was a kid (albeit without them being heroes anymore). If I ever lose interest in pool it will be because I lose interest in...

I couldn't agree more that professional sport should always have a referee, umpire or arbitor of some kind. At the elite amateur level, event organisers should also aspire to this. But for the most part, when we play sport we referee ourselves. That's what we do and it should be no different...

Actually it is the players' job in a non-refereed match. The responsibility for enforcing, to the best of their ability, the rules falls on the players in all games, pool included. This is respect for the game and therefore the players who are playing. I'll be the first to argue that MR...

I don't think it's an "American" thing perse (the major team sports in the USA tend to have rules that are much stricter, more technical and less open to interpretation than those that are more popular elsewhere). I think it's a product of league pool in the USA where many leagues have a...

Yes you can. Most people do.