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World Snooker Tour Tournament Director. Retired Professional Snooker Referee, Rugby Union fan, love music but can't sing a note! #LuvsItIDo

Newport, South Wales
Joined April 2009
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The @Sportsbetio Champion of Champions kicks off on Monday 🚨 Where will you be tuning in from around the world? 📺 #ChampofChamps 🏆
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It’s confirmed now, 8th December, 7pm at Kings Sports Bar, Newport. If you played in the Embassy, come along! 🤞👍
I’m organising a reunion for the old Embassy snooker club on 8th December, in Newport. If you were a team player there in the late 80’s, or a regular, please reply to this post so I can gauge numbers and get somewhere booked 🤞👍🍻
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Paul Collier retweeted
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE LIKE? 🫣 5-5. 72-72. Respotted Black. What happened next had to be seen to be believed! 🤯 #InternationalChampionship
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SYDNEY OPEN UNDERWAY 🇦🇺 Peter Gilchrist begins his Sydney Open title defence against David McMahon at Mounties in Australia 🤝 The champion will be crowned on Sunday 🏆 Follow the event ➡️ wbeventsonline.com/?page_id=…
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I’m organising a reunion for the old Embassy snooker club on 8th December, in Newport. If you were a team player there in the late 80’s, or a regular, please reply to this post so I can gauge numbers and get somewhere booked 🤞👍🍻
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A fellow referee in Wales lost twins in the Aberfan disaster. Both he and his wife are gone now. RIP the poor souls lost that tragic day, and also those whose lives changed forever. 💔
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CAUSIER CLAIMS ENGLISH CROWN 🏆 Well done to David Causier, who has defeated Robert Hall 427-413 to win the English Open at the Landywood Snooker Club! Results 👉 wbeventsonline.com/?page_id=…
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Having a little break in Benidorm with my beautiful dragon. Two great friends joined us for part of the trip, their first visit to the ‘dorm. Hope they enjoyed it as much as we did! #LuckyWelshref
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Last weeks view in Cheltenham alongside this afternoons view in Brixham harbour. Tomorrow, I’ll be back in Newport, I won’t subject you to photos of that!
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Paul Collier retweeted
Great seeing Shaun in the shop today. @Magician147 #Snooker #Cues
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Memories as a youngster sat with mum and dad watching Robins Nest starring Richard O’Sullivan. In the mid 90’s he was a guest at a charity snooker event I worked at in Birmingham. I was in awe of this TV legend, he was an unassuming, down to earth, absolute gentleman. RIP sir.
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Our dog, Chase, is a proper Daddy’s boy. My dragon still isn’t quite feeling 100% and I’ve gone to bed, she has 20 mins left on a film I got bored with. Chase senses she’s not right so won’t leave her. First time I’ve gone to bed without him following me! Legend 🐶❤️
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GILCHRIST IS THE WINNER IN WINNIPEG 🇨🇦 Well done to Peter Gilchrist, who defeated Robert Hall 801-252 to win the 2026 Vimy Ridge Classic 🏆 Results 👉 wbeventsonline.com/?page_id=… The double-header in Canada concludes with the PABSA Pan Am Cup which begins later today.
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My wife hit her head in work last week, tripped over a loose cable 🤦 phoned her doctor yesterday, he was too busy, so went to hospital. X-ray showed nothing broken, sent to another hospital for a CT scan. 9 hours to diagnose concussion. ALL staff were amazing, NHS is broken 😢
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Day 21 in China and haven’t found a local beer I really like yet, so back to an old favourite tonight! Hello darkness, my old friend…. – at Shanxi, People's Republic of China
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It was a special moment picking up the cheque for the highest break tonight, sadly, Guodong wants it back though. Tough life being a TD 🤪 – at Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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Thank you all so, so much for the kind birthday wishes. An unusual day today as I’ve used a bullet train to make a return trip between Shanghai and Nanjing for a meeting! One way was 185 miles, took under an hour….🤷 Back in Shanghai now having a cold one, or two 👍👍 – at Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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I avoid political comments here, for obvious reasons, but I do hope this change of leadership helps the whole country, God knows, we need something. 🤞
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