The snooker UK Championship is upon us and while watching Joe Perry versus Ronnie O'Sullivan, I couldn't help getting perturbed by the commentators who consistently floated ridiculous ideas such as Joe Perry had made no mistakes and only has been shut off the tables by O'Sullivan, when in reality he missed an extremely simple blue to the left center pocket, and a relatively straightforward red to bottom left as well.
Then, to make matters worse, in the eighth frame they said how Joe Perry has had bad luck in the game. Excuse me? Luck? As far as I can see there is a man with a stick hitting a ball on the table and the position of the balls thereafter is based on physics, not magic. There is no luck involved.
These kinds of observations are not unique to these commentators or this particular tournament, rather they are commonplace among most snooker commentators. That aspect of snooker ought to change: commentators are not meant to be apologists for faulty play.
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