No 'F's

[The Statman]

It came to my attention, while I was fiddling with the second-round prediction spreadsheet, removing the undesired characters, that there is no player whose name contains the letter F in the second round of the tournament!

Quite to be expected that there would be no Xs, Qs and Zs (although Scott MacKenzie occasionally features), but I thought an F absence was quite surprising!

[rambon]

It came to my attention, while I was fiddling with the second-round prediction spreadsheet, removing the undesired characters, that there is no player whose name contains the letter F in the second round of the tournament!

Quite to be expected that there would be no Xs, Qs and Zs (although Scott MacKenzie occasionally features), but I thought an F absence was quite surprising!

'F' ing amazing, if I might be so vulgar...

[Cyril]

Pucking hell, no Fs !!

[missneworleans]

It's not many F's in any of snooker names though

[RaNeN]

lol! No F's....surprising!

[PaulTheSoave]

Patsy Fagan, there is one for you! And what about Stefen Hendry?

[PaulTheSoave]

You are actually right. the first name that comes up in the toppish of snooker is Marco Fu. This thread is rather Fullocks! I bet hes winding us up.

It's not many F's in any of snooker names though

[rambon]

You are actually right. the first name that comes up in the toppish of snooker is Marco Fu. This thread is rather Fullocks! I bet hes winding us up.

Next he'll be telling us that no-one with an umlaut in their name has ever won the World Championship.....

[The Statman]

Next he'll be telling us that no-one with an umlaut in their name has ever won the World Championship.....

Apart from Shaun Mürphy, of course!

[PaulTheSoave]

He must really been bored at the office today coming up with posts like that!

or plastered already!

[rambon]

Apart from Shaun Mürphy, of course!

Nice try TS

Gräme Dott would be a better one though....

[Skypigeon]

Nice try TS

Gräme Dott would be a better one though....

..or Kenny Dåherty....

[The Statman]

Nice try TS

Gräme Dott would be a better one though....

Well maybe, but that doesn't quite work, because the A and E in Graeme are two separate syllables. Thus, you could have Graëme, the French notation that the two vowels are pronounced separately (like naïve or Noël), but that is a diaeresis (or diæresis if you're being clever), not an umlaut.

[The Statman]

I notice Björn l'Orange is reading this thread as we speak!

[Maija]

I notice Björn l'Orange is reading this thread as we speak!

Well, he'd be disappointed at having his named spelled the SWEDISH way, I suppose. He's called Bjørn