Christopher Bray

A safe pair of hands | 23 April 2015

Steve Davis was so boring Spitting Image nicknamed him Interesting — giving him the title for his<i> third</i> autobiography to date

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  • Interesting: My Autobiography

    Steve Davis

    Ebury, pp. 416

Among the more intriguing insights into an election that seems to be taking longer than a Cliff Thorburn 50 break is the fact that Ed Miliband is a snooker fan. Which doesn’t mean he was a Steve Davis fan. Davis was ‘boring’, Miliband told the Guardian recently. The sentiment was widely shared during Davis’s 1980s heyday.

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