Editing Cliff Wilson (section)

{{short description|Welsh professional snooker player (1834–1994}}
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{{Infobox snooker player
|name              = Cliff Wilson
|image             = Cliff Wilson.jpg
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|birth_date        = {{birth date|1934|5|10|df=y}}
|birth_place       = [[Tredegar, Wales|Tredegar]], [[Monmouthshire (historic)|Monmouthshire]]
|death_date        = {{death date|1994|5|21|df=y}} (aged 60)
|death_place       =
|Sport country     = {{WAL}}
|Professional      = 1979–1994
|High ranking      = 16 ([[Snooker world rankings 1988/1989|1988–89]])
|Official maximums =
|Best finish       = Quarter-final (x5)
}}

'''Clifford Wilson''' (10 May 1934 – 21 May 1994) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] professional [[snooker]] player who reached his highest [[Snooker world rankings|ranking]] of 16 in [[Snooker world rankings 1988/1989|1988–89]]. He was the 1978 [[IBSF World Snooker Championship|World Amateur Champion]] and won the [[1991 World Seniors Championship]]. He was a successful junior player, known for his fast attacking snooker and {{cuegloss|pot|potting}} ability, and won the British Under-19 Championship in 1951 and 1952. In the early 1950s both Wilson and future six-time [[World Snooker Championship|World Professional Champion]] [[Ray Reardon]] lived in [[Tredegar]], where they played a succession of money matches that attracted large enthusiastic crowds.

A combination of factors, including Reardon leaving Tredegar, led to Wilson virtually giving up the game from 1957 to 1972, but after being asked to take up a vacant place in a works team, he returned to playing and later became the 1978 World Amateur Champion, achieving his victory with an 11–5 win in the final against [[Joe Johnson (snooker player)|Joe Johnson]]. In 1979 Wilson turned professional, aged 45, and, still playing with an attacking style, reached several ranking tournament quarter-finals during his career. At the inaugural [[World Seniors Championship]] in 1991 he beat [[Eddie Charlton]] 5–4 in the final to take the title. He won the [[Welsh Amateur Championship (snooker)|Welsh Amateur Championship]] in 1956, 1977 and 1979, and was runner-up in the [[Welsh Professional Championship]] in [[1981 Welsh Professional Championship|1981]] and [[1984 Welsh Professional Championship|1984]]. He suffered from a number of health conditions, including poor eyesight, during his career, but continued to play professionally until his death in 1994, aged 60.