Crumbs from the table

It was a week when ignominy visited great cue men. Steve Davis was ducked in a New South Wales lake then banished from the jungle before a chancer from The Only Way is Essex; a parable of snooker’s current standing in public affections.

To think Steve, like many viewers, missed the UK Championship for this.

On the same evening, some of the Nugget’s old pals from his pool dabblings went into the devil’s parlour at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas and won the Mosconi Cup for Europe with a day to spare.