Who has been the easiest winner of the world snooker championship at the Crucible?
asked Dave Moore from Nottingham The most one-sided final in the world snooker championship since it moved to the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in 1977 was in 1989, when Steve Davis hammered John Parrott by 18 frames to three (Parrott got some revenge two years later, beating Davis in the semi-final on his way to winning the title). Davis also beat Cliff Thorburn 18-6 in 1983, while Stephen Hendry walloped Jimmy White 18-5 in 1993. Has anyone ever played Test cricket and international football for England on the same ground? asked Brian Cross from Leicester I thought the answer here must be no, as very few Test grounds have staged international football, but it’s always dangerous to assume that … because I’d forgotten that the first football international (in 1870) and 11 other 19th-century England games were staged at The Oval. And in one of those, in March 1877, the Honourable Alfred Lyttelton scored England’s only goal in a 3-1 defeat by Scotland. Three years later Lyttelton made
