🏆 Good Sportsmanship vs. Bad Sportsmanship in Snooker: The True Test of a Player In snooker, your cue action says a lot about your skill — but your attitude says even more about your character. Every player, whether they’re a beginner or a league champion, faces moments that test not just their technique but their […]

Great Coaches Who Weren’t Players — And Why It Matters… In sport, there’s a persistent myth: to coach well, you must have played at the highest level.But history tells a very different story. Across football, rugby, boxing, basketball and more, some of the most iconic coaches in the world were never elite players — and […]

Entries into the 2026 World Shoeshine Championships have begun and run until the 8th March where judges will choose three of the best shined candidates to enter the London Super Trunk show in May. SnookerZone’s Chris Gaynor has entered the event this year for the first time after discovering there was a shoeshine championships last […]

This is a perfect example of two players lacking a proper “pre-shot” routine and it lacks consistency in their set -up. Whilst some players might get away with this – when the push comes to shove, at certain tension points a player with no defined routine when approaching the shots will be inconsistent in the […]

Snooker isn’t about perfection – it’s about progression in real frames… There’s nothing wrong with practice routines in principle. But the line-up — reds neatly placed, blacks waiting obediently on their spot — has become something else entirely. For me, it’s not just overrated. It actively misleads players about what snooker really demands. And I […]

Why I Don’t Believe in Handicaps in Sport… I’ve never been a big believer in handicaps in sport, and it’s not because I think they’re pointless — it’s because I don’t think they reflect a fair part of reality. Sport performance is played on the day. Not on averages. Not on spreadsheets. Not on what […]

🟢 The basics always win.In snooker, the flashy shots, the crowd-pleasers, the six colour clearance — they make for great moments. But week after week, the players who win more frames (and more matches) are the ones who get the basics right: the stance, the grip, the bridge, the cue-action, the aim. The fundamentals. If […]

How Cue Sports Stars of Past and Present Lit Up the Eras — and Tested their Systems… Has it been too little too late to continue greatness in the UK and find the next Ronnie, Jimmy, or Judd? Every sport likes to believe it is shaped by its greatest players.Snooker, more than most, tells itself […]

Coach Carter: Lessons Beyond the Court… When Coach Carter hit cinema screens in 2005, it seemed like just another underdog sports drama. But instead of celebrating the usual winning streak, the film did something few sports movies dared to do: it stopped the game. Coach Ken Carter (played by Samuel L. Jackson) benched his undefeated […]

Leaders Eat Last: What Snooker Can Teach Us About Real Leadership… Snooker is often described as an individual sport. One player. One cue. One table. One scoreline. But anyone who has spent real time in snooker clubs, leagues, or coaching environments like me knows the truth: snooker lives or dies on leadership, culture, and trust. […]