Jersey show good grace as ‘Sumo’ rolls ’em over

Saturday 3rd May 2008, 9:30AM BST.

Hero of the early hours, Adam Shorto. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0425918)

AS NICKNAMES go, they don’t come much more tongue-in-cheek than Adam Shorto’s.

The island snooker champion is not much thicker set than the cue he uses. So what moniker has he been given? Sumo. Yet in the early hours of Sunday morning, he again proved it to be an apt tag because he is undoubtedly a heavyweight of the Channel Islands snooker scene.

One week later and on arguably the biggest weekend of the local sporting calendar, we can but hope that our footballers and rugby players show just a modicum of the character Shorto, and for that matter his teammates, did against the auld enemy.