Whoever lifts the World Snooker Championship trophy aloft on Monday evening as the confetti streams down around them will have reached the pinnacle of their sport. If it’s John Higgins , it would be for the fifth time, for Shaun Murphy the second and for Mark Allen or Wu Yize, the very first occasion. It will be a remarkable achievement, the highlight of a career and the fulfilment of a dream that began in childhood. But whoever emerges triumphant will inevitably, sadly, only achieve a fraction of the headlines that frame 14 of the second semi-final did. After all, pure sporting accomplishment can never match abject farce when it comes to capturing public interest. And make no mistake, what occurred at the Crucible Theatre on Friday afternoon was the most abject of farces. Allen and Wu played out the longest frame in Crucible history – an epic that lasted more than 100 minutes and ended with Wu snatching his only frame of the afternoon to escape the session locked at 7-7 in their best-of-33 encounter.…