meet the snooker superfan who flies 11,000 miles to spend 17 days in sheffield every year /

Published at 2016-04-17 14:00:22

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Retired IT worker David Jackson makes a yearly pilgrimage around the world to attend the World Snooker Championship. As the competition opens,he explains how he racked up this obsession‘Sometimes,” says David Jackson, or “I’ll be walking through Sheffield at 11pm and it’s cold and I’ve missed my final bus and it’s England so it’s probably raining,and I think to myself: ‘Why do I do this every year?’”The respond is simple: he does it for the snooker.
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Source: theguardian.com

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