Gods of Snooker - The story of snooker's golden days

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  • @GuillaumeBichon-f4v
    @GuillaumeBichon-f4v Місяць тому +8

    Great documentary!
    As a French guy I accidentally discovered snooker during a High School trip to England. It was in April 1990 and I discovered the youngest ever world champion. I had no clue of what had happened in 1980s at that time, never heard of Jimmy White!😅 I fell in love with the game interestingly at a time where it got less exciting. Today I am a big big snooker fan. Love it!

  • @umeshgurnani1
    @umeshgurnani1 Місяць тому +7

    Thank you very much to whoever made this . I got transported back to the 80’s . I was one of the lucky ones who saw the great Alex Higgins live in action

  • @alainclvpentax8798
    @alainclvpentax8798 24 дні тому +5

    Great documentary. I never thought the world of snooker could of been so rock & roll

  • @UR_HR
    @UR_HR Місяць тому +5

    Thank you for the upload, reliving moments of everybody in the nation watching these great personalities playing snooker

  • @faceman1477
    @faceman1477 6 днів тому +2

    Thank you so much for the upload!🤗

  • @slimyoung2392
    @slimyoung2392 20 днів тому +5

    As a self-taught beginner 3 months into snooker, I was extremely frustrated with my cue action and consistency; no matter how much I tried, the object ball just didn't seem to go where I wanted it to go. Just 24 hours before I saw this documentary, I was REALLY ready to give up. But after seeing this documentary, it actually gave me the confidence and patience to re-evaluate my techniques, and I've made tremendous cue ation improvements today. Hats off to all the crowned and uncrowned snooker legends, may your spirits forever be with me down this exciting journey!
    PS, Rest in Peace, Alex. Rest in Peace, the People's Champion!

    • @chillandthrill
      @chillandthrill 5 днів тому +2

      Youre aiming wrong cause youre overthinking, go play, it happens. Or give a month or 2 break(not a pro, but earned enough to drink and celebrate everyday once)

    • @mikescorpio13
      @mikescorpio13 8 годин тому

      you got to visualize the path of the cue ball to the object ball very carefully as the side of the grain might affect the roll. It is about muscle memory.

    • @slimyoung2392
      @slimyoung2392 5 годин тому +1

      @@mikescorpio13 thank you, I'll keep that in mind!

    • @slimyoung2392
      @slimyoung2392 5 годин тому

      @@chillandthrill Great! I'll try not to think too much when cueing.

  • @traviskeeler5655
    @traviskeeler5655 20 днів тому +3

    My Dad played for living. Hustling in the East End of Toronto. Played Cliff Thorburn a few times for $. "Silver Cue" on Danforth. "Scarborough Billiards"...bunch of different halls. Used to sit and watch ALL day when he bothered to visit us....if he was winning I'd get roll of quarters or two to play Asteroids...lol...oh....learned how to play pretty decently too!

  • @paulbignell1238
    @paulbignell1238 Місяць тому +5

    Every snooker player owes Alex and jimmy for making snooker the game it is today

  • @Frenzy2409
    @Frenzy2409 Місяць тому +6

    RIP Alex...A Legend Forever

  • @IestynDavies-cx8je
    @IestynDavies-cx8je Місяць тому +4

    Congratulations on a very enjoyable trip down memory lane pity though that you and
    everyone watching missed out
    on seeing Dennis pot the final
    black!

  • @evelghostrider
    @evelghostrider Місяць тому +5

    As a young boy, my parents spent alot of time with Alex his wife and daughter.
    They stayed at our home and we stayed with them. We travelled to many events with him. As a child I was able to play with the snooker greats of that era apart from one player !
    Alex and Lynn attended my father's funeral in 1984 he carried my father's coffin.
    I knew him on a very personal level. We were privileged to spend time with other players staying at our family home..

    • @a.tanner8524
      @a.tanner8524 Місяць тому

      Was your dad a famous snooker player then?

    • @evelghostrider
      @evelghostrider Місяць тому

      No, my father was not a famous snooker player.
      They met because my mother approached mr higgins and asked for an autograph for her son..
      Alex wrote it on a ripped up piece of cigarette box..
      She showed it to my father at the restaurant they were in. So my father went over, handed him back the piece of cigarette box and told him if thats the best he can do perhaps he should re consider being a celebrity..
      My father went to the restaurant owner and said he would cover the bill at Mr Higgins table as he was clearly a bit of a fool with an attitude. ..
      At the end of the night, Alex and his guests approached my father and appoligised to him and my mum..
      From that a great long lasting friendship was built upto and after the day my father passed away in 1984...
      I can understand peoples view of Alex, he could be an arse. But he could also be a very kind person, sadly alcohol was an issue as he got older.
      He had issues dealing with people, i guess today we could see he had mental health issues and would have had labels for his ways... ​@a.tanner8524

  • @emonikino
    @emonikino Місяць тому +2

    very entertaining story. we need more of this.

  • @jozefserf2024
    @jozefserf2024 Місяць тому +3

    Higgins and White, what more would you need?
    Their legendary 1982 semi-final will never be forgotten.
    48:50 As Jack Karnehm also said, Jimmy had a "Rolls-Royce cue action".
    If he'd kept his original cue, no one could have stopped him becoming a multiple world champion.
    Maureen, you have a lot to answer for.

  • @JupiterThunder
    @JupiterThunder Місяць тому +2

    It was a peculiar period in time, which only lasted for about five years. I can remember staying up to the small hours to watch Taylor v Davis in the 1985 world final.

  • @albertcross4275
    @albertcross4275 Місяць тому +6

    I played Alex on May 21 1979 in Lee on solent 1972. At the break he threw the food at the wall. 🤔 He played aaamazing. ♥️♥️

  • @davidmccarthy6390
    @davidmccarthy6390 Місяць тому +3

    I have a story about the off table betting.
    I got to a final at Cabravale Diggers in Sydney, and the winner got A$1000.
    It was a great final, going down to the final black in a best of 7 which I came out runner up and got A$500 for my efforts.
    Cabramatta is a very diverse place, having a large population of Vietnamese residents, and Vietnamese men like nothing more than having a bet.
    When the final black went in, this dude came out of the ausdience (which was the largest I ever played in front of), and chucked A$25 000 on the table, cursing in Vietnamese - he had lost.
    I was quite worried about getting out of the joint having just cost some dude $25 000....
    But it was all good, I tracked him down and talked to him,and it was like it was nothing to him. He was betting thousands on horse races at the time. lol
    They are legendary gamblers, and Australia must have felt like the promised land to him.😂

  • @henriput854
    @henriput854 22 дні тому +1

    Thanks , Alex was a great snooker player in the nighties great hero, fan Henri put Belgium 🇧🇪 r I p Alex we never forget you

  • @johntai8818
    @johntai8818 Місяць тому +2

    Every now and then when seeing Hendry say "Jimmy is my hero" (2:11:10) would make me laugh.
    He played like a mean machine No deep screw No cue ball running around the table No exhibition shots to entertain his fans which is so vastly different from his hero
    It was so well summarized by that lady commentator (2:05:55) that Jimmy only lacks the killer punch the winning shot which is most crucial for winning his most wanted and deserved title of the World Champion.

  • @filips4972
    @filips4972 Місяць тому +2

    Seeing Icke in his previous life gave me the chuckles.

    • @_6079SMITH
      @_6079SMITH Місяць тому +1

      😅😅😅 he speaks a lot of truth today though

  • @Cheeseberry69
    @Cheeseberry69 Місяць тому +4

    How the hell... whenever there is a show where celebrities are talking about literally anything... Richard Osman is guaranteed to worm his way onto the show

  • @davegadge1
    @davegadge1 Місяць тому +3

    The legend David Icke!

  • @MrAntonnio96
    @MrAntonnio96 Місяць тому +1

    Higgins was the man a total bad ass to come back and win it not so many people can even imagine it

  • @matsforsberg6287
    @matsforsberg6287 Місяць тому +2

    Thanks

  • @Novotny72
    @Novotny72 Місяць тому +3

    fantastic

  • @timbercretesteel9855
    @timbercretesteel9855 12 днів тому

    What a lovely man!

  • @bertwalliams5876
    @bertwalliams5876 6 днів тому

    A legend 🎉,the Northern Island trophy 🏆 is msrked in his name,what privilege.

  • @craigsutherland4726
    @craigsutherland4726 Місяць тому +5

    The legend Higgins was in fact a handsome man and so sed to see what cancer and malnutrition done to him but he was certainly handsome

    • @a.tanner8524
      @a.tanner8524 Місяць тому +1

      Are you bent?

    • @craigsutherland4726
      @craigsutherland4726 Місяць тому

      @@a.tanner8524 ask your mum

    • @johnmc3862
      @johnmc3862 Місяць тому

      ​@@a.tanner8524What?

    • @samtaurus007
      @samtaurus007 Місяць тому +1

      @@a.tanner8524 Are you insecure?. Personally, i thought Alex was a normal looking bloke.....certainly no Jason Momoa. ;)

    • @stuartbritton4811
      @stuartbritton4811 Місяць тому

      Handsome doesn't mean women find it attractive. Case in point. Yours truly.

  • @davidford2169
    @davidford2169 Місяць тому +1

    I'm 63 and can remember my father telling me that they had booked Alex Higgins to play in an exhibition match at Hounslow Conservative club,(Dad was treasurer) and Alex was appalling.....snatched a lady's instamatic camera from her and wripped up the photo,as she needed permission for a picture......personally it didn't bother me as a young boy,because,like Alex I was a rebel also .....but not a pissed rebel.......yet 👍🇬🇧

  • @headgroundsman1650
    @headgroundsman1650 Місяць тому +7

    That blue is the greatest shot of all time.

    • @MrIanSellers
      @MrIanSellers Місяць тому

      Which one? Just startwd watching and I'll look for it coming...😊

    • @highjim7778
      @highjim7778 Місяць тому +2

      @@MrIanSellers goitta be the higgins one, its fucking impossible to get that much side on the ball

    • @itsroger
      @itsroger Місяць тому

      @@MrIanSellers the blue shot - ua-cam.com/video/9Lru4kK3VLA/v-deo.html

    • @michaeldoherty4927
      @michaeldoherty4927 10 днів тому

      terrible positional shot

  • @MarkSmith-tp6zc
    @MarkSmith-tp6zc Місяць тому +2

    Davis is good at swearing!

  • @frankryan782
    @frankryan782 Місяць тому +3

    When I lived in Torquay I found out ray reardon
    Lived there and he liked curry I won't disclose his favourite curry house , as far as I know he still goes there. .

    • @littlelucysamoyed
      @littlelucysamoyed  Місяць тому +7

      He died a few weeks back so sadly he's not gonna be eating there any more. Hopefully has last curry was a good 'un.

    • @highjim7778
      @highjim7778 Місяць тому

      @@littlelucysamoyed rip mr Reardon.

    • @a.tanner8524
      @a.tanner8524 Місяць тому

      Ray Reardon was an absolute gentleman. RIP sir.

  • @JasonHarrisDorset
    @JasonHarrisDorset 28 днів тому +1

    Excellent doc 😍

  • @robertroyston-cornick4553
    @robertroyston-cornick4553 Місяць тому +1

    Alex, what a lovely man.
    Met him in Euston station shared a beer.
    Top bloke.

  • @richarddickson5157
    @richarddickson5157 Місяць тому +1

    Alex made Snooker what it is today,,, exactly!!!!

  • @johnmc3862
    @johnmc3862 Місяць тому +4

    The biggest reason why snooker is so big today is because of Alex Higgins, fact!

    • @oldtimer7635
      @oldtimer7635 Місяць тому

      Really? They are, and were lots of young players never heard of him, fact!

    • @lakmeister
      @lakmeister Місяць тому +1

      ​​@@oldtimer7635But without him doing his thing ..they would be in a factory or office? Facts!!!

    • @oldtimer7635
      @oldtimer7635 Місяць тому

      @@lakmeister What, was he there playing with himself? Nobody else around? Sure it's so easy to glorify past, and some particular individuals, but use your fu..ing common sense! "Biggest reason...."!

    • @evelghostrider
      @evelghostrider Місяць тому +1

      I guess what's ment is Alex Higgins was like Tiger Woods...
      He brought people to snooker that were not players..
      Same as woods did with golf..

    • @CastrolHondaSP2
      @CastrolHondaSP2 Місяць тому

      @@johnmc3862 just because you write fact after a statement doesn't automatically make it true. 🤣🤡

  • @kumarlilwa1496
    @kumarlilwa1496 Місяць тому

    My fav all time is great O'Sullivan

  • @garyhillman4993
    @garyhillman4993 Місяць тому +32

    There all boring now give me Alex n Jimmy all day

    • @frankryan782
      @frankryan782 Місяць тому +1

      As are most sports, health and safety ensuring we live longer but are so bored we wish we didn't 😁

    • @highjim7778
      @highjim7778 Місяць тому +4

      @@frankryan782 seeing lots of them on Hendrys cue tips these says shows they still have personality and character, its just the sport no longer allows them to show it.

    • @sidneygreen9120
      @sidneygreen9120 Місяць тому +4

      The rocket is of this standard 👍

    • @sonjelkotelli5209
      @sonjelkotelli5209 Місяць тому

      From one drugmen to another!2 of them were losers!

    • @axm5563
      @axm5563 Місяць тому

      1000%

  • @kennymartinez1244
    @kennymartinez1244 7 днів тому

    Can we say people were better sports toward each other, like they mostly respected each other in competition

  • @roadofsnookerfinals6572
    @roadofsnookerfinals6572 27 днів тому +1

    Alot of missing parts and the sound has been cut off multiple times so not a great video.

  • @Novotny72
    @Novotny72 Місяць тому +2

    No-one had invented Twitch yet.

  • @cliffordmason3542
    @cliffordmason3542 Місяць тому +12

    You should never meet your heroes. I was at trentam garden when he came back after his ban, played Adrian Rosa and lost 5nil. Everyone was surrounding him when he arrived and he behaved appallingly. Saw him later in the players lounge all alone cos everyone was avoiding him. He had everything and just threw it away.

    • @a.tanner8524
      @a.tanner8524 Місяць тому +4

      He was an arrogant rude man. A genius yes without a doubt but a very dislikable person. Steve Davis on the other hand is a good guy.

    • @evelghostrider
      @evelghostrider Місяць тому +1

      I knew Alex personally as he was a huge part of my family I was young, but I seen all his ups and downs with my father. They were extremely close as we stayed in each other's homes when he was in his prime.

    • @TheMockatiel
      @TheMockatiel Місяць тому +1

      Nasty person who never had to learn to do better due to celebrity status- we see it all the time and they never learn

    • @faceman1477
      @faceman1477 6 днів тому

      I met Alex Higgins in Holland, he did an exhibition with Jimmy White. He was a true gentleman and had time for everyone. That was after his ban in 1993. He was 4-2 up on White and Jimmy won the last three frames to win 5-4. You could see they were good mates. Higgins manager at the time was with them.

  • @Enpassantful
    @Enpassantful Місяць тому +1

    They banned the biggest draw in snooker and almost killed the game off, took years to recover.

  • @Blues656
    @Blues656 3 дні тому

    EPIC

  • @Synthematix
    @Synthematix Місяць тому +1

    Is that Machaela Tabb?

  • @brynjones7371
    @brynjones7371 Місяць тому +2

    I seem to remember Rex Williams got caught taking beta blockers to help him relax during matches.

  • @Skynet4444
    @Skynet4444 12 днів тому +1

    Alex and keith floyd could be brothers.😂

  • @francollins4036
    @francollins4036 2 дні тому

    Alex is the greatest ever.

  • @nibsvkh
    @nibsvkh 4 дні тому

    Shame that Alex’s drug addiction,alcohol is a drug,ruined his career,hurt his family and ended his life so prematurely.
    Jimmy fortunately cleaned up but only after missing out on an even better showings in the majors.

  • @johnjoyce341
    @johnjoyce341 Місяць тому +1

    Jimmy White should have had him beaten in that semi final.He missed a simple black off the spot and a relatively easy red.

  • @mcanyon38
    @mcanyon38 Місяць тому +1

    Alex Higgins....talk about someone who thinks they're more important than they are.

  • @johnmc3862
    @johnmc3862 14 днів тому

    And to this day Steve Davis will never know how much he was ripped off.

  • @amigaze
    @amigaze 22 дні тому +1

    bless clive everton

  • @frankryan782
    @frankryan782 Місяць тому +1

    Alex hurricane Higgins came to England to be a jockey he worked for eddy reavey a racehorse trainer who liked a drink .

    • @evelghostrider
      @evelghostrider Місяць тому

      Whoever told you that knows nothing about Alex.

    • @frankryan782
      @frankryan782 Місяць тому

      @@evelghostrider like you know nothing knowall, I know the reavey racing family that employed Alex duh!!!
      And the reason you didn't know this is because you don't know anyone and go only by what you read or hear.. Alex Higgins was employed by eddy and jocelyn reavey OK🙄

    • @evelghostrider
      @evelghostrider Місяць тому +1

      Have no idea what your point is my friend... but i can tell you i will know more about alex his wife lynn and daughter lauren when he was in his prime from 78 to 84 ..
      Considering my parents were best friends with them, having stayed in their house in manchester and they staying in our home in belfast, how we would have multiple holidays together also, and the fact we also followed with them around the uk and irl snooker tournaments until my father passed in 84 where alex carried his coffin in full view of hundreds at my fathers funeral... granted i was a boy. But i was rite there for everything. .
      Were you that close to him to have your view of his actions ?? ​@frankryan782

  • @jonathonmasau8982
    @jonathonmasau8982 8 днів тому

    Whos this

  • @CastrolHondaSP2
    @CastrolHondaSP2 Місяць тому +5

    Alex Higgins.
    Fantastic player.
    Awful human being.

    • @johnmc3862
      @johnmc3862 Місяць тому +1

      Sure and you're a perfect human being? Great to comment on social media and say someone else is awful when you are anonymous.

    • @magpie7154
      @magpie7154 Місяць тому +2

      @@johnmc3862 I don't think what he said is in dispute is it?

    • @CastrolHondaSP2
      @CastrolHondaSP2 Місяць тому

      @@johnmc3862 ah a fanboy.
      All the ability in the world but none of the class of Reardon or composure of Davis.
      People's champion my arse.

    • @lakmeister
      @lakmeister Місяць тому

      ​@@CastrolHondaSP2your a arse!😂

    • @CastrolHondaSP2
      @CastrolHondaSP2 Місяць тому +1

      @@lakmeister YOU'RE AN.
      Literacy not your strong point then? 🤣🤡

  • @highjim7778
    @highjim7778 Місяць тому +1

    kirk and jimmy out on the piss every night

    • @evelghostrider
      @evelghostrider Місяць тому

      As a kid I had the pleasure of Alex, Jimmy, and kirk staying in my house many many times.

  • @jibberjabberman
    @jibberjabberman 11 днів тому

    play us a shot..where did the white go lol

  • @fearfactorymark
    @fearfactorymark 2 дні тому

    Barry Hearn 😆

  • @jasongb5666
    @jasongb5666 Місяць тому +2

    Every time I see Jihad Gary Lineker .I feel sick 😫

    • @a.tanner8524
      @a.tanner8524 Місяць тому

      What kind of stupid comment is that?

    • @claw333
      @claw333 20 днів тому +1

      His Saville day will come I guarantee it

    • @Swat-ed5bt
      @Swat-ed5bt 19 днів тому +1

      Gary is a legend, you loser

  • @darrellirwin8412
    @darrellirwin8412 Місяць тому

    I hope the promoter who ran off with all the money got ira treatment, maybe he might be where shergar is the only difference is shergar didn’t deserve to be horse napped

  • @Big-o4e
    @Big-o4e 24 дні тому

    Snooker nowadays is played by robots only Ronnie & Williams who are characters rest of em I can to watch anymore even thou they might be better players

  • @thetruthhurts5902
    @thetruthhurts5902 Місяць тому +1

    higgins was a good snooker player but a complete wkr as a person sadly no class

  • @beefchops1400
    @beefchops1400 Місяць тому

    What a state……lol

  • @simonc4764
    @simonc4764 16 годин тому

    Snooker failed to build on the success of the 80s.

  • @davegadge1
    @davegadge1 Місяць тому

    See his little coke snort 😆

  • @oldtimer7635
    @oldtimer7635 Місяць тому

    I am not so sure that they were "golden days". In many cases far from it.

  • @iancu39
    @iancu39 Місяць тому

    1 Trump
    2 Hendry
    .
    .

  • @tobyprice1092
    @tobyprice1092 Місяць тому

    Jimmy White is playing pool around Thailand now. Not sure about the wig.

    • @michaeldoherty4927
      @michaeldoherty4927 10 днів тому

      He had a hair transplant, a la Rooney. Still plays on the snooker circuit and is a pundit for Eurosport

  • @mrharoun3214
    @mrharoun3214 Місяць тому

    How much coke did the 😂 first guy do ... Opium overlord

  • @tongpeter
    @tongpeter 8 днів тому

    drunk man

  • @billfrater1948
    @billfrater1948 28 днів тому

    I would argue the golden days are now. the players now are just streets ahead of the players back then, I hear this crap about no characters now, what a load of crap, Mark Williams, Mark King, Michael Holt, Judd, Ronnie, Mark Allen, no Characters, you must be joking.

    • @michaeldoherty4927
      @michaeldoherty4927 10 днів тому

      Mark King's been banned. Michael Holt too. Neither would be considered top players.

  • @2010gtoner
    @2010gtoner Місяць тому +2

    Liniker:(

  • @xxkupixx8036
    @xxkupixx8036 Місяць тому

    Jimmy white was a traitor for leaving Higgins and joining Barry Hearn, I’m so glad he didn’t win the world champion

    • @a.tanner8524
      @a.tanner8524 Місяць тому

      Why was he a traitor? Higgins was a very bad influence on the young Jimmy White. He was probably better off not hanging around with him.

  • @PatrickKelly-lz3pv
    @PatrickKelly-lz3pv 19 днів тому

    Higgins only won the world title twice and White never won it at all, neither of them would be in the top 50 today

  • @colinyates7485
    @colinyates7485 Місяць тому

    Both Higgins and White had a great talent but lacked the dedication required to become exceptional.

    • @johnmc3862
      @johnmc3862 Місяць тому +1

      Nonsense, both were exceptional. Higgins literally made snooker cool singlehandedly(although White had a hand too)and won 2 WC's. White won 30 titles, 10 of them ranking titles. He was unfortunate to come up against the King of the Crucible' every time. A man more consistent than anyone in the game, including Ronnie.

    • @johnmc3862
      @johnmc3862 Місяць тому

      Both were exceptional. Higgins literally singlehandedly made snooker cool and pioneered lots of the shots we see today and White won 30 titles, 10 of them ranking titles. Both of them were exceptional even to a casual fan of the game.

    • @colinyates7485
      @colinyates7485 Місяць тому +1

      @@johnmc3862 I agree that they were both exceptional in their drinking and drug culture but their lack of dedication stopped them both from reaching the heights that they could and should have achieved.

    • @evelghostrider
      @evelghostrider Місяць тому

      ​@@colinyates7485how well did you know the two players ??
      I was lucky enough as a kid they would often stay in my parents home and we would travel with them around the league places..

    • @colinyates7485
      @colinyates7485 Місяць тому

      @@evelghostrider I didn’t have to know them well, they were a pair of piss head, drug taking chancers, which they both admitted several times, that is not dedication to your chosen sport, although I’m sure they had a great social life.

  • @gregmilligan6334
    @gregmilligan6334 Місяць тому +1

    Alex just seemed like a knob of a guy and old horrible drunk no thanks rather watch paint dry than this