🎭 Culture Jun 26, 2026 · Julian Waddell

At the Crucible: Snooker’s World Series

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At the Crucible: Snooker’s World Series
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Ronnie O’Sullivan at the German Masters, 2012. Photograph by DerHexer, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
When I arrived in Sheffield, England, last year and walked to the Crucible Theatre, it was not immediately clear that I was approaching the mecca of a sport watched by millions. Sheffield feels more like a large village, whose greatest claim to historical fame is industrializing so-called crucible steel, which revolutionized the cutlery trade. Today it has a reputation

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