Mark Selby believes Leicester City s league-winning exploits are a good omen after he completed another snooker-football double for the city.
Leicester fan Selby fought off a Ding Junhui comeback to triumph 18-14 and become just the sixth player to win multiple World Snooker Championship titles at the Crucible.
Meanwhile, Chelsea were busy cancelling out Tottenham s 2-0 lead at Stamford Bridge to earn a 2-2 draw that cemented Leicester s maiden Premier League crown.
Selby s first world title in 2014 came as Leicester won promotion to the top flight and the 32-year-old hopes the trend continues.
I don t know which is more of a shock, me winning it twice or Leicester becoming Premier League champions, he joked.
It must be a good omen. Hopefully in another two years they ll win the Premier League again and I can come back and win it again.
But Selby insists he was not aware of events at Stamford Bridge until after he had clinched victory.
I didn t know, he added. Not until after when one of the guys who was sat just to the left of where I was sitting a guy called Brian Wright from Coventry, one of my friends after I got back to my seat, after I d won, he said to me it was 2-2 and Leicester are champions.
That was the only time I knew. I sort of knew going out there that the game was kicking off but I tried not to think about it too much, I didn t want it to distract from what I had to do in hand.
Asked whether it was the best day of his life, Selby commented: I d be lying if I said it wasn t.
You don t become world champion every day. To win it once was great, to win it two times is a dream come true.
