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JOHN HIGGINS went viral with an unbelievable shot during the English Open.
Higgins, 49, faces Mark Allen in the Last 16 of the competition in Brentwood.
"The greatest double kiss I've ever seen in my life!"
— Eurosport (@eurosport) September 19, 2024
This John Higgins fluke was unbelievable! @WeAreWST | BVEnglishOpen pic.twitter.com/00L6uHdJL0
And both snooker stars have upped the ante with incredible shots during an absolute showdown of a clash.
Higgins, though, seems to have stolen the headlines as he put together one of the greatest double kisses.
The Scot tried to put a red ball in the corner but put too much power on his shot and it went rolling around the table.
However, the white ball then met the same red in the middle and the latter ended up going in.
The Eurosport commentator was left absolute stunned with what he just witnessed.
The announcer gushed: “This is probably the greatest double kiss I’ve ever seen in my life.”
The commentator, though, did suggest this might have been a shocking fluke.
Nevertheless, snooker fans were left in awe as they stormed social media.
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One fan tweeted: “This John Higgins fluke was unbelievable!”
Another commented: “Wow.
” A third posted: “Wonderful scenes.”
This fan said: “I think we can call this match eventful.”
And that one stated: “Fantastic!”
Higgins also made headlines in the English Open as he became only the second ever player to register 1,000 centuries.
MARRIED At First Sight UK bride Sacha Jones has already had a forgotten stint on a classic MTV reality show.
The bride-to-be got wed to her hunky groom Ross on the E4 dating show but it did not take long for eagle-eyed fans to work out exactly where they know her from.
Sacha, 29, had already received notoriety for winning the Miss Birmingham contest after three attempts but she also had a hidden TV past she failed to mention ahead of her wedding.
The blonde bombshell was a cast member on the fiery MTV reality show, Beauty School Cop Outs.
She was among one of eight youngsters sent to a beauty school in Manchester to learn the tricks and the trades of the beauty industry.
However, the cast mainly spent their time on wild night’s out, enjoying raunchy on-screen hook-ups and a whole load of fighting and screaming matched.
Having seen her strut down the aisle, one fan commented online: “Sasha has done reality tv before! She was wild on this show!”
Sacha was the youngest of the cast having signed up at the age of 18 but she was in good company as the show became notable for being the starting ground for many notable TV personalities and stars in their own right.
Scarlett Moffatt appeared on the programme alongside Sacha a year before she made her Gogglebox debut.
Hunky Irish model Jeremy McConnell also found fame off the back of the show which led to him becoming a notorious tabloid personality and a memorable Celebrity Big Brother housemate.
One of Sacha’s most notable moments on the show was when she snogged Jeremy after a wild night out.
Savannah Kemplay also had her first TV stint on the forgotten show before going on to star in MTV hit Ex On The Beach.
Her forgotten TV past comes after the TV beauty was left dropping a major bombshell on her brand new husband on MAFS.
Just moments after tying the knot the aesthetics practitioner revealed to her new husband that that she is a mum of two.
Painter and decorator Ross then shared that he was actually a father to a three-year-old daughter.
His confession was met with a warm response from his new wife, who said it was “cute”.
She later shared: “I just love dad’s and their daughters, maybe because I’m so close to my dad and I’m a daddies girl.”
Sacha then revealed: “I’ve got two kids as well, I’ve got a boy and a girl…”
But before Ross could share his excitement, the Brummie confessed she was actually a mum to two CATS.
While taking their wedding snaps, Sacha admitted she was “nervous” to share a bedroom with Ross, 32.
“We’ve got to get to know each other, which is scary and then we’ve got to be in the hotel room later which will be awkward.”
Sacha, who has been celibate for over a year, told the camera: “It’s a big thing to say I’m not sleeping with anyone, I feel a bit awkward around him because I don’t know him.”
MANCHESTER City fans are looking back in anger at their side’s dull draw on Wednesday against Inter Milan in the new “Oasis-inspired” fourth kit.
After the match, City defender Manuel Akanji admitted he’d accidentally passed to the assistant ref because the official’s top looked like his side’s special-edition shirt.
One supporter fumed that the Definitely City strip – part-designed by the band’s Noel Gallagher to mark the 30th anniversary of debut album Definitely Maybe – was “the worst footie kit I’ve ever seen.”
But in the league of garish football garb, the peach and blue shirt is nowhere near top of the table.
Garish classic replica football shirts are trendy with Gen Z, who are as likely to flaunt an obscure top as they are a team’s main colours.
True collectors will want all three – home, away and third kits, which can cost £80 to £110 each.
If the strips have been “match-worn” by a star player in a memorable game they can fetch thousands of pounds.
That has led to clubs battling to put out even more eye-catching kit.
Premier League champs City went further, by introducing the Definitely City strip – inspired by the front room shown on the album’s cover – to be worn during home matches in the Champions League this season.
The “authentic” shirt will set fans back £125. But it does come in a “collector’s box” featuring Noel on the front.
So which club kits are winners and which deserve to be relegated to the nearest charity shop?
Fashion Editor Clemmie Fieldsend is our referee.
BOSS Pep Guardiola strummed the guitar in a photoshoot recreation of Oasis’s Definitely Maybe album for the fourth kit’s launch.
And while the shirt’s colours are inspired by the band’s album cover, they don’t appear to be in tune with fans who prefer the classic sky-blue hues of the home strip.
Clemmie says: “Some might say this Oasis themed shirt is Wonderwall, but Man alive, it’s reminding me of a dinner lady’s tabard.”
THE Canaries can’t do much about the fact their yellow and green colours resemble what might be regurgitated after a heavy night out.
But there is no excuse for this multi-coloured goalie kit, which is even more offensive to the eyes than their much sought-after early Nineties home shirt.
Clemmie says: “The print looks like it’s come straight off a bus seat, and that’s not a fashion goal or a keeper.”
IT’S perhaps understandable that Tottenham fans might want to go out in camouflage after the Premier League side’s poor start to the season.
But surely their army-green third shirt blends in too much with the turf and will make it difficult for team-mates to pick each other out.
Clemmie says: “It may be ‘first the worst’ in the children’s rhyme, but third has outdone it when it comes to Tottenham’s reserve shirt.”
ED SHEERAN has worn his beloved Ipswich Town’s third kit, which is sponsored by his world tour.
While the pop collaboration makes sense, the pink colour with white musical frequencies on it is nothing but a bad equation.
Clemmie says: “Featuring sound waves from fans at Portman Road, plus the local coastline, Framlingham Castle and Wolsey’s Gate – local tourism chiefs must be thrilled.”
HAVING splashed out more than £300million on players this summer, it seems the West London club didn’t have much cash left over to hire a kit designer.
Instead they seem to have stuck a white top in a washing machine with blue dye and left it to see what would happen.
Clemmie says: “It’s not very likely that this child-like design is going to ignite any fires in fashion.”
THE Championship side have just sacked their manager Steven Schumacher – but the designers who did their third kit deserve the push as well.
For a part of the world that is famous for its potteries, you might think they could do better.
Clemmie says: “Stoke City’s third kit reminds me of Lady Gaga’s famous meat dress with its patchy pink design – and not in a good way.”
THE Gunners have gone for a sky-blue third kit, with very similar colours to those of their biggest league rivals, Man City.
But that decision has been blasted by supporters of the North London side.
Clemmie says: “The light blue and lilac colours have a look of the Premier League title holders’ shirt about them.
“But despite the critics, it is the most versatile and fashionable of the lot.”
STARE too long at The Black Cats’ third kit and you are liable to be hypnotised by its Seventies-style pattern.
Look closer at the blue shirt and you will see a colliery wheel, which celebrates the city and wider North East’s proud coal mining history.
Clemmie says: “Some fans have taken a stand against it saying it looks like a Wetherspoons plate.”
THERE is nothing foxy about the away kit Jamie Vardy is wearing for The Foxes this season.
The black Adidas shirt, with gold and pink splashes, looks faded – a bit like Leicester City’s survival hopes.
Clemmie says: “There’s the vintage look and then there’s ‘mouldy’. Bit of an own-goal.”
BRIGHTON’S striped yellow and blue away kit has drawn comparisons with those pesky cartoon Minions.
But the Seagulls have had a strong start to the season, so maybe those bright colours are helping to put off the opposition.
Clemmie says: “Brighton’s new kit has a retro feel that bumps it right up the fashion league table.”
FANS of newly promoted Saints described their new third kit as “needing sunglasses to see it” and “up there with the worst kits ever”.
Pondering the South coast side’s dodgy history of questionable shirts, Clemmie says: “While they say their strip ‘follows the dazzle concept’, the Pepto Bismol pink colour makes me feel a little queasy and should be quickly relegated.”
THE Definitely City kit is inspired by the Definitely Maybe cover, and the publicity material for it was shot in a living room based on the cover, with City’s Kyle Walker, Jess Park, Ederson and Mateo Kovacic joining Pep Guardiola and Noel Gallagher.
BRODIE Croft hopes to be all write and help Leeds gatecrash the play-offs, thanks to his notebook.
For the Rhinos’ star jots down everything he needs to be the best he can be after every match and every meeting.
The stand off has already established himself as a key part of the bid to bring silverware back to Headingley, less than a year after he joined.
Boss Brad Arthur – who has committed to stay for 2025 – recognised the day he walked in that he took notes in off-field meetings ahead of matches.
And lessons picked up on the pitch also go in there as he looks to stay at the levels that earned him rugby league’s biggest individual honour, the Steve Prescott Man of Steel award, in 2022.
Croft said: “You could call them little mental fresheners – just reminding me of little cues I’m looking for in matches, both in attack and defence.
“It’s something I’ve done throughout my career. I find it works for me, it doesn’t work for everyone but I’ll keep doing it.
“There’s a good balance in there of strengths and weaknesses of the opposition’s game that we’ll try and exploit but also attributes of my game that I want to implement to counteract them.
“Every meeting and every game I bring it. I’ve the same routine every week, regardless of who you’re against, you always do your homework beforehand.
“After games and training sessions I’ll write down what I’ve done well and I have my own goals each week that I want to try to hit.
“I self-coach myself a bit and hold myself accountable before the coaches. That’s only going to help me improve my own performance and hopefully that helps the team’s.
“That’s the best preparation for myself but the coach also holds me to account – just because I take notes doesn’t mean they give me a blind eye and Brad’s really good with that.
“I really enjoy what he’s brought to the club and the boys are really buying into him.”
Leeds need all of Croft’s expertise as they must win at Hull KR and hope to squeeze into the top six as they lie one point behind Leigh with one match remaining,
But the 27-year-old – who still lives on the other side of the Pennines – believes it is up to the forward pack to set the platform.
He added: “It makes your job on the edge a lot easier if the guys in the middle work hard.
“It’s a joy to come to work every day and while the season can be called frustrating in a way, the whole narrative can change.”
SNOOKER legend Ronnie O’Sullivan has split from fiancée Laila Rouass — 147 months after they got together.
Ronnie, 48, who has scored a record 15 maximum-147 breaks in a glittering career, has been playing abroad and barely seen the 53-year-old actress.
A friend said: “They have been going in different directions.”
Actress Laila was not wearing her diamond engagement ring when she appeared on This Morning last month.
Seven-times world champion Ronnie gave her the huge sparkler in 2013 — a year after they started dating.
However they never married and friends say they have now broken up — 147 months since they got together.
The couple separated in 2022 before patching things up.
A friend said: “Ronnie and Laila really threw themselves back into their relationship after the split a couple of years ago.
“He kept posting pics of them online at home together and saying romantic things on special occasions, but that’s all come to a halt.
“They’ve tried so hard but they just can’t make it work.”
Laila popped up on ITV’s This Morning last month to publicise her stint as Ayesha Siddhu in EastEnders.
Meanwhile, her fiancé, who has scored a record 15 maximum-147 breaks throughout his career, has been in lucrative competitions abroad.
The pal went on: “Ronnie has spent months and months on the road this year doing snooker tours for big money in China and Saudi Arabia while Laila has been concentrating on her acting career.
“There is a lot of love between them but they have been going in different directions and conceded it is over.
“Ronnie and Laila make a lovely couple so the people who know them best are hoping this is a blip like back in 2022.”
Last year, Footballers’ Wives star Laila, told how “talking” eventually helped her reconcile with Ronnie, who was awarded an OBE in 2016.
She said: “We found our way back, we just worked it out.
“Back when I announced it, we hadn’t been together for almost eight months at that time.
“Talking is so underrated.
There is a lot of love between them but they have been going in different directions and conceded it is over
A pal
“If you can sit down and say how you feel and what you want when you get older that is much easier to say too.”
Ronnie, who has three kids from previous relationships, has spoken openly about his mental health battles and regularly threatens to retire from snooker.
This week he crashed out of the English Open after a shock first-round loss to China’s He Guoqiang, with fans criticising his decision to play left-handed.
Ronnie said of the defeat: “I’m not even bothered.”
Representatives for Ronnie and Laila declined to comment.
