We now know the finalists for the 2025 Masters and with the prize fund raised considerably to £350,000 for the winner this year, one of Kyren Wilson or ... laid the snooker he needed on the ...

Since the World Snooker Championship switched to the Sheffield venue in 1977, no first-time winner has retained the title, with John Pulman the last player to pull off that feat in 1964.

World No 2 snooker player Kyren Wilson has long been a Chelsea fan, seduced into the fold by the colour blue and the undoubted skills of Gianfranco Zola and the magic feet of Eden Hazard.