[Tall Guy]

Speaking of snooker, I’m currently in a hotel room on Gran Canaria watching the final couple of frames of the UK Masters final on Eurosport in German, while waiting for Mrs TG to ready herself to make an entrance in the dining room.

What’s interesting to me is that I know a tiny amount of German, enough to follow more or less what’s going on in the game. The German commentators call the red balls “die Rote”, the yellow ball “der Gelb” and the blue ball “der Blaue” (apologies to real German speakers if I’ve got the gender or spellings wrong). But the pink and black are “der Pink” and “der Black”. And I’m sure I’ve heard them refer to “Frames”.

I’ve yet to hear reference to the table pockets, which I believe would be “Tischtaschen”. Fascinating. Does snooker have a following in Germany, I wonder?