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SNOOKER: He can become an angry young man when it all goes wrong on the table, but now Stephen Maguire is trying to master his emotions, finds David Hendon

As a boy growing up in Glasgow, Stephen Maguire kept a tankful of baby sharks in his bedroom. Now 27, he is one of the biggest fishes in snooker's pond with a fierce competitive spirit that has, at times, threatened to be his undoing.