WHO'S THE FACE OF SNOOKER?
Interesting comments from John Higgins during this week's Players Championship (where he's working as a pundit for Channel 5 and also qualified to the semifinals) have raised an interesting debate amongst the snooker community. Full reports from Phil Haigh can be read on Metro , but what John Higgins sad was: "I don’t know what Judd Trump has got to do in the game to actually be classed as the next flag-bearer, because he’s won just as much as anybody in the game." Now, I've been one of Judd's advocates in terms of how I think he's the best player in the world but gets a load of unfair criticism for having his numbers compared to the all-time greats. Trump is nearing a second spell of two uninterrupted years as world number one, after also leading the rankings from 2019 to 2021. He's won five triple-crown tournaments in his career (four of them coming since 2019) and 31 ranking tournaments (making him fourth all-time). If we consider Ranking Tournam...
