Ireland’s Davy Morris takes on Stephen Maguire in the last 16 of the UK Championship this evening, but the Kilkenny man almost found himself without a bed to sleep in on Saturday night, but for the help of a York taxi-driver.
Morris told the York Press that after beating World Champion Mark Selby on Saturday he was unable to find a hotel or bed and breakfast for the night, and was potentially facing the prospect of having to pay over the odds for a bed well outside York.
But after driving him from hotel to hotel to no avail, a local taxi driver, who didn’t wish to be named, proved to be a good samaritan, offering the spare room in his house to Morris, for no charge at all.
The recently dubbed “Wolf of Walkin Street”, said: “I couldn’t find anywhere – basically the whole of York was booked out.
“The closest place was about 13 or 14 miles away and it was still £200 a night. I didn’t want to pay that so I just asked a taxi man to take me to a few different places and we’d try and do it by word of mouth.
“We didn’t find anywhere so he offered, if I hadn’t found anywhere by the night-time, to give him a ring and stay with him – he would more than happily accommodate me.
“He was brilliant. He put me up for the night and cooked breakfast in the morning,” he said
