By Phil Harlow BBC Sport at The Crucible

Williams could do with a spellchecker

Mark Williams was straight back down the motorway (borrowing Stephen Hendry's car) to see his newborn baby and fianc�e Jo after beating Dominic Dale.

Williams became a father for the first time on Friday, but the couple did not settle on a name until late in the evening, leaving the pack of snooker journalists waiting.

The Welshman finally revealed their choice at the post-match press conference: Connor. Or is that Conor? "How do you spell that, Mark?" asked one hack.

"I dunno how to spell it, I just know the name," admitted Williams. "Don't get technical!"

In the seventh frame, a clearly out-of-sorts Small lost his cool after a poor shot, picking up the cue ball and flinging it down the table to concede with just one red potted.

But just as the episode was about to be written off as a common-or-garden case of a sportsman throwing his toys out of the pram, Small was revealed to be suffering with a debilitating eye condition.

The 30-year-old needs regular steroid injections to alleviate a degenerative spinal condition and his most recent jab - in the back of his skull - resulted in a build-up of fluid behind his eyes.

Small is expected to visit a specialist on his return to his Edinburgh home.

Not for him the punching-the-air delights of Survivor's soft-rock classic "Eye of the Tiger."

No, McManus plumps for the leftfield choice of listening to former England cricketers' life stories on CD.

The Scot revealed his chosen listening material on the drive to Sheffield was actually Mike Atherton's audio version of his autobiography.

And it seems "the people" are putting their money where their mouths are, so to speak.

One leading bookmaker stands to lose over �250,000 if the Whirlwind carries his winning form from last week's Players Championship over to the World Championship.

White, a 150-1 shot at the start of the season, has been backed down to 25/1, but everybody hates to see bookies losing money, don't they?