Shaun Murphy has revealed that a pair of lucky underpants helped him win his first World Snooker Championship title, yet it wasn’t him who was wearing them. Murphy begins the final of the 2026 tournament against 22-year-old Wu Yize this afternoon but his first world title came back in 2005, when he was a relatively unknown 22-year-old himself. Having come through qualifying to reach the Crucible , Murphy blitzed the field with his attacking snooker in the main tournament itself, seeing off Chris Small, John Higgins , Steve Davis and Peter Ebdon before beating Matthew Stevens 18-16 in the final. Twenty-one years later, the now 43-year-old has revealed the victory may have been down to his nephew Joshua, who was just a child at the time and ensured that his uncle kept winning by wearing the same underwear each day he was at the Crucible.…