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8 Ball Hotshots on Manchester United TV

A while back I hosted a show for MUTV.  Sharing some pool tips, tricks and hustles with some football stars from the biggest club in the world. They are a great bunch of lads, and we had a fun day filming.  The show goes out on MUTV tonight – watch it if you can!

Write up from the MUTV Website:

Four Manchester United players recently traded the training pitch for a pool table – with MUTV's cameras capturing all the action.

Reds goalkeepers Anders Lindegaard and Tomasz Kuszczak plus strikers Kiko Macheda and Mame Biram Diouf all picked up pool cues for a practice session with world trick shot champion Steve Daking, followed by a mini tournament amongst themselves.

To see the players learning how to hustle and attempting tricks, and to find out which United player is top dog at pool, watch 8-Ball Hot-Shots on MUTV at 21:00 GMT this Sunday, 22 January.

To enjoy 8-Ball Hot-Shots and other exclusive shows, subscribe to MUTV.

Top 10 Ways to spot a pool hustler

It's a dangerous world out there. If you walk into the wrong place, you could get eaten by a shark!  Maybe not eaten, but you could lose a huge amount of cash if you don't have your wits about you and you fall victim to a professional hustler.  To help keep you out of trouble, I present this simple list of things to look out for when invited by a stranger to shoot a few frames.

Look out for people playing in hats

The Top 10 Ways to spot a Pool Hustler

  1. They are not drinking as much as you, but appear more drunk.
  2. They moan very loudly about their bad luck when they miss a shot
  3. They are from ‘out of town’
  4. They offer you one more game – a chance to get all your money back
  5. They seem to know a lot about giving head-starts for someone who just started playing yesterday.
  6. They set the balls up very quickly.  A hustler doesn’t want you thinking too much between frames.
  7. They tell you they have just won the lottery and decided to take up pool for ‘fun’
  8. ‘Fun’ turns out to be playing for £20 a frame
  9. They are wearing a trilby hat
  10. They tell you that their name is ‘Jeff’, but the barman calls them ‘Sharky’