1991 Snooker Caricature

However it was football and billiards which I truly loved. I played football every spare moment during the day and also most evenings. I played most positions well but I had my most success playing in goal and as a defender. In junior school I helped my team win the town championship and finish runner up in the county. If we had won that match we would have been very close to playing in the school boys finals at Wembley stadium in London!

When I was 9 years old my parents took me to a weekly junior pool league. I seemed to have a natural ability for billiards straight away and the passion that I first felt that day as a young boy still burns strongly today. Indeed I would eventually travel around the world and enjoy success at local, national and international levels in both 8 ball and more recently 9 ball. Sadly though my athletic ability seems to have degraded exponentially in recent years!