Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use Hiberno-English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox snooker player Alexander Gordon Higgins (18 March 1949 – 24 July 2010)<ref name="Tel death">Template:Cite news</ref> was a Northern Irish professional snooker player and a two-time world champion who is remembered as one of the most iconic figures in the sport's history. Nicknamed "Hurricane Higgins" for his rapid play,<ref name="BBC obituary"/> and known as the "People's Champion" for his popularity and charisma,<ref name="Nickname">Template:Cite news</ref> he is often credited as a key figure in snooker's success as a mainstream televised sport in the 1980s.<ref name="inspiration">Template:Cite news</ref>
Higgins turned professional in 1971 and won the World Snooker Championship in 1972, defeating John Spencer 37Template:Nbnd31 in the final to become the first qualifier to win the world title, a feat that only three other players—Terry Griffiths in 1979, Shaun Murphy in 2005 and Zhao Xintong in 2025—have achieved since. Aged 22, he was then the sport's youngest world champion, a record he held until 21-year-old Stephen Hendry won the title in 1990. He was world championship runner-up to Ray Reardon in 1976 and Cliff Thorburn in 1980. At the 1982 event, Higgins came from 13Template:Nbnd15 behind to defeat Jimmy White 16Template:Nbnd15 in the semi-finals, producing a 69 clearance in the penultimate Template:Cuegloss that is regarded as one of the greatest Template:Cueglosss in the sport's history.<ref name=TG16>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He defeated Reardon 18Template:Nbnd15 in the final, winning his second world title ten years after his first. Images of a tearful Higgins holding his baby daughter after his 1982 victory are regarded as some of the most iconic in the history of British televised sport.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Higgins won Masters titles in 1978 and 1981 and won the UK Championship in 1983, where he recovered from 0Template:Nbnd7 behind to defeat Steve Davis 16Template:Nbnd15 in the final. As of 2025, he is one of 11 players to have completed a career Triple Crown. He won the World Doubles Championship with White in 1984 and played with Dennis Taylor and Eugene Hughes on the all-Ireland team that won the World Cup three consecutive times from 1985 to 1987. He won his last professional title at the 1989 Irish Masters, defeating Hendry 9Template:Nbnd8 in the final. He retired from the professional tour in 1997.
Remembered for his turbulent lifestyle, Higgins was a lifelong heavy smoker,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> struggled with drinking and gambling,<ref name="inspiration" /><ref name="warning" /> and admitted to using cocaine and marijuana.<ref name="BBC obituary">Template:Cite news</ref> He had tempestuous relationships with women—both his marriages ended in divorce, and he had widely publicised altercations with other girlfriends, one of whom stabbed him three times during a domestic argument.<ref name="HOTCOLD">Template:Cite news</ref> Known as an unpredictable, difficult, and volatile character,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> he was often disciplined by the sport's governing body, most notably when he was fined £12,000 and banned for five tournaments in 1986 after head-butting an official, and banned again for the entire [[1990–91 snooker season|1990Template:Nbnd91 season]] after punching another official and threatening to have Taylor shot. Diagnosed with throat cancer in 1998,<ref name="FG"/> he died of multiple causes in his Belfast home on 24 July 2010, aged 61.
Life and careerEdit
Early lifeEdit
Born in Belfast on 18 March 1949, Higgins was the only son of Alexander Gordon Higgins, a labourer, and his wife Elizabeth (née Stockman), a cleaner. He had three sisters, Isobel, Ann and Jean.Template:Sfn<ref name="TOBIT" /><ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His father suffered a brain injury after being hit by a lorry, and he was raised primarily by his mother.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The family lived on Abingdon Drive in Sandy Row, a predominantly Protestant working-class area of inner-city south Belfast, and Higgins was educated at the local Mabel Street Primary School and Kelvin Secondary School.<ref name=":0" /> From age 10, he began frequenting the Jam Pot, a local snooker and billiards hall, running bets for his father and doing odd jobs.<ref name=TG16/> He began to play snooker at the Jam Pot at age 11,Template:Sfn<ref name="WS profile">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and subsequently began playing with more challenging opponents at the Shaftesbury and YMCA clubs in the city centre.Template:Sfn After leaving school in 1964, Higgins worked as a messenger for the Irish Linen Company, but the job was short-lived as it offered few prospects and the business was in decline.Template:Sfn After spotting a newspaper advert for stable boys at Eddie Reavey's stables in Wantage, Berkshire, he left Belfast at 15, hoping to follow in the footsteps of his idol Lester Piggott and become a jockey. His employer later recalled him as "a starved little rat from the slums".<ref name=":1" /> Despite being fired six times, he was taken back on board and stayed with Reavey for almost two years, during which time he gained too much weight to ride competitively.Template:Sfn He left the stables for London, where he settled in a Leytonstone flat and started playing snooker again. He won several money matches and earned extra income at a paper mill near London Bridge, but he grew homesick and returned to Belfast in late 1967.Template:Sfn
Higgins soon joined the snooker league at the Mountpottinger YMCA, where he faced tougher opponents. He practised up to six hours a day, studied weaknesses in the other players, and devised new shots in his game.Template:Sfn In January 1968, he entered and won the Northern Ireland Amateur Championship, defeating Maurice Gill 4Template:Nbnd1 in the final.Template:Sfn He became the first player to win the title at his first appearance and, at age 18, was the tournament's youngest winner.<ref name="NI68" /> One week later, he won the All-Ireland Amateur Championship and turned professional for a short spell before reverting to amateur status.Template:Sfn<ref name="SCENE">Template:Cite magazine</ref> He was appointed captain of the Mountpottinger YMCA team.Template:Sfn<ref name="AI1968">Template:Cite news</ref> He defended his Northern Ireland Amateur title the following year, but lost 0Template:Nbnd4 to Dessie Anderson in the final.<ref name="NI1969">Template:Cite news</ref> Around this time, Higgins defeated world champion John Spencer in several exhibition matches where he received a start of 14 Template:Cuegloss per Template:Cuegloss.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Professional careerEdit
1970sEdit
Higgins relocated to England as it presented more favourable opportunities for snooker.Template:Sfn It was here where salesman Dennis Broderick and bingo tycoons Jack Leeming and John McLaughlin recognised his talents and became his agents, buying him a flat and new clothes.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn John McLaughlin originated the nickname of "Hurricane" for Higgins, who would have preferred "Alexander the Great".Template:Sfn Higgins turned professional full-time at age 22, and worked out his strategy against the top professionals around this time; he noted they were percentage players and to beat them, chose to "attack with brute force and scare them to death".Template:Sfn Higgins' sister Isobel offered to pay the £100 fee so he could enter the 1971 World Snooker Championship, but he declined as he did not feel ready.Template:Sfn
The 1972 World Snooker Championship began in March 1971 and concluded in February 1972, and Higgins won the title at his first attempt, defeating Spencer 37Template:Nbnd31 in the final.<ref name="T28FEB">Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Efn In the qualifying competition, Higgins won ten consecutive frames in defeating Maurice Parkin 11Template:Nbnd3,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="AHMP"/><ref name="AHMP">Template:Cite magazine</ref> then eliminated Jackie Rea 19Template:Nbnd11, making Template:Cueglosss of 103 and 133 during the match.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Rea complimented Higgins on the performance, saying that "He does everything wrong. And yet he knocks such a lot in."Template:Sfn In the quarter-finals, he defeated former champion John Pulman 31Template:Nbnd23.Template:Sfn In January 1972, Higgins defeated Jackie Rea in the final of the Irish Professional Championship, a title Rea had held since 1952.Template:Sfn In the World Championship semi-final Rex Williams won nine consecutive frames to establish a 12Template:Nbnd6 lead against Higgins. Higgins was not ahead in the match after this until he won the 51st frame for 26Template:Nbnd25. The match went to a Template:Cuegloss, and Williams was 28 points to 14 ahead when he missed an attempt to Template:Cuegloss a Template:Cuegloss from its spot into a middle pocket. Higgins compiled a break of 32, and then, following some Template:Cuegloss play, potted the green ball to clinch victory.Template:Sfn Williams later commented "That blue could have changed the direction of both our careers."Template:Sfn Spectators at the final, held at Selly Park British Legion, Birmingham, were seated on wooden boards placed atop beer barrels.Template:Sfn There was a miners' strike in progress at the same time as the final, and on the first evening of play, without normal power, the session was conducted with reduced light provided by a mobile generator.<ref name="TOPPLE">Template:Cite magazine</ref> As champion, Higgins earned £480 in prize money.Template:Sfn
Higgins was the youngest-ever winner of the title, a record he held until Stephen Hendry's victory at the age of 21 in 1990.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the summer Higgins was the subject of the half-hour Thames TV documentary Hurricane Higgins.Template:Sfn During an exhibition match in Bombay, an inebriated Higgins was unable to play due to the high temperatures and proceeded to play shirtless. He was fined £200.Template:Sfn In 1973 Higgins made his debut appearance on Pot Black, but he lost his first game and stormed off the set. Ted Lowe convinced him to return and finish his other games, but friction between the two remained and Lowe forbade Higgins to appear on the show for five years.Template:Sfn Higgins lost his world title with a 9Template:Nbnd23 defeat to Eddie Charlton in the semi-finals of the 1973 tournament.Template:Sfn Higgins blamed his loss to Charlton on having to use a new Template:Cuegloss after his usual one had been broken a few months before the tournament.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> At the time, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) had scheduled a meeting to hear a complaint that Higgins had refused to continue in a tournament after complaining about the lighting.<ref name="73DR">Template:Cite news</ref> Pulman, the WPBSA chairman, declared that he welcomed Higgins losing, as "he [had] dragged the game down."Template:Sfn<ref name="73DR"/>
By the end of 1974, Higgins had started to alter his attacking style of play and add more tactical and safety elements,Template:Sfn but his results remained inconsistent throughout the rest of the decade.Template:Sfn In 1976, Higgins reached the world championship final again after close wins against Cliff Thorburn, Spencer and Charlton.Template:Sfn Higgins led 10Template:Nbnd9 against Ray Reardon in the final but faded as the contest progressed.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn In a match marred by erratic refereeing and a sub-standard table,Template:Sfn Ray Reardon pulled away to win the title for the fifth time, with the score finishing at 27Template:Nbnd16.Template:Sfn The 1977 World Championship was the first to he held at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, and Higgins lost the Template:Cuegloss of his first-round match against Doug Mountjoy.Template:Sfn Although not one of the eight invited professionals to enter the 1977 Pontins Open, for which Lowe was an organiser, Higgins was one of the 24 players from an entry of 864 to reach the stage where the invited professionals joined the draw, despite having to concede 21 points a frame to amateur players.Template:Sfn He whitewashed Reardon and Fred Davis, then defeated Terry Griffiths 7Template:Nbnd4 in the final, watched by an audience of around 2,000 people.Template:Sfn In Masters of the Baize (2005), a book about world snooker champions, Luke Williams and Paul Gadsby wrote that the tournament "cemented his status as 'The People's Champion'."Template:Sfn
Higgins retained the Irish Professional title against Dennis Taylor in 1978.<ref name="IPC2"/> A week later, a 7Template:Nbnd5 victory over Thorburn, from 4Template:Nbnd5 behind, secured the 1978 Masters title for him.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> At the 1978 World Championship, he led Patsy Fagan 12Template:Nbnd11 in the first round but was eliminated after he lost three close frames: on a Template:Cuegloss, then the final Template:Cuegloss and, on the final Template:Cuegloss.<ref name="BBC78">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He saw off challenges from Fagan for the Irish Professional title in 1978 and 1979.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1980sEdit
Higgins lost the Irish Professional title to Dennis Taylor the week before the 1980 World Championship.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> At the World Championship, he won the deciding frame against Tony Meo in the first round, then eliminated Mans, Steve Davis, and Kirk Stevens to reach the final against Thorburn.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Sydney Friskin of The Times described the match as a contrast of styles: "the shrewd cumulative processes of Thorburn against the explosive break-building of Higgins". He also noted that each player had accused the other of distracting them during the match.<ref name="06MAYT">Template:Cite news</ref> Higgins began the final playing the matchplay snooker for which he had been commended,<ref>Clive Everton, 'Smart Alex wiser now'. The Sunday Times, 4 May 1980. Retrieved 12 March 2025</ref> leading 6Template:Nbnd3 at the end of the first session and extending his advantage to 9Template:Nbnd5. However, Thorburn levelled the match at 9Template:Nbnd9.Template:Sfn They were also level at 11Template:Nbnd11, 13Template:Nbnd13, 15Template:Nbnd15 and 16Template:Nbnd16, from which point Thorburn won the two frames he needed to secure victory at 18Template:Nbnd16.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Higgins was runner-up to Steve Davis at the 1980 UK Championship, losing 6Template:Nbnd16.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was the first player to win a second Masters title, beating Terry Griffiths 9Template:Nbnd7 in the 1981 final after being runner-up when the two contested the 1980 final.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He lost to Davis in the second round of the 1981 World Championship.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> That year, Souvenir Press published "Hurricane" Higgins' Snooker Scrapbook, an autobiographical work which Higgins had written in collaboration with Angela Patmore, having worked on the manuscript for almost a decade.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Higgins won the world title for a second time in 1982.Template:Sfn He eliminated Jim Meadowcroft 10Template:Nbnd5 in the first round,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> then won the Template:Cuegloss of this match against Doug Mountjoy and prevailed 13Template:Nbnd10 against Willie Thorne.Template:Sfn In the semi-final, he trailed Jimmy White 13Template:Nbnd15 in the best-of-31 match, but took the 29th frame and then compiled a break of 69 against White in the penultimate frame. Higgins had been 0Template:Nbnd59 points behind in that frame, but managed to complete an extremely challenging Template:Cuegloss during which he was rarely in good Template:Cuegloss. The break is regarded as one of the best in snooker history.<ref name="CARPET">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Sfn In the final he faced Reardon. From 15Template:Nbnd15, Higgins went on to achieve victory at 18Template:Nbnd15, clinching the match with a 135 total clearance in the final frame.Template:Sfn A tearful Higgins summoned his wife and baby daughter from the audience to celebrate with him.Template:Sfn Higgins would have been ranked No. 1 in the world rankings for the [[1982–83 snooker season|1982Template:Nbnd83 season]] had he not forfeited ranking points following disciplinary action.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He released a country and western styled single, "One-Four-Seven", that year.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It failed to chart.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Davis defeated him 16–5 in the semi-finals of the 1983 World Championship.Template:Sfn In the final of the 1983 UK Championship he trailed Davis 0Template:Nbnd7 before producing a comeback to win 16Template:Nbnd15.<ref name="UK Championship history">Template:Cite news</ref>
In 1986, Higgins split with his manager Del Simmons and signed with Framework, a management group run by Howard Kruger who also managed Jimmy White, Kirk Stevens, and Tony Knowles. Later that year the four, with Status Quo, released a cover of "The Wanderer" by Dion as a counter to "Snooker Loopy", a pop single featuring snooker players managed by Barry Hearn's Matchroom.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> At the 1986 UK Championship, Higgins head-butted tournament director Paul Hatherell after an argument. He was fined £12,000 and banned from five tournaments,<ref name="BBC (2003)">Template:Cite news</ref> while he was also convicted of assault and criminal damage arising from the incident, and was fined £250 by a court.<ref name="Tel turbulent"/> Higgins was fined £500 for being abusive towards tournament director Kevin Norton at the 1987 Irish Masters.Template:Sfn In 1987 he reached the Masters final for the fifth time; he lost in the deciding frame to Dennis Taylor.Template:Sfn By 1988, Higgins had been fined a total of £17,200 in his professional career.Template:Sfn
In 1988, Higgins was dropped by Kruger and acquired a new manager, Robin Driscoll.Template:Sfn In January 1989, Higgins fell out the window from his partner's first floor flat and broke multiple bones in his ankle. He arrived at several subsequent matches on crutches and played while hopping on one leg.Template:Sfn Later that year, Kruger's Framework Management company was wound up at Higgins's instigation, with Higgins claiming that over £50,000 was owed to him.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Clive Everton wrote after Higgins's death that the money lost to Framework was "a financial blow from which [Higgins] never recovered."<ref name="FG"/>Template:Rp His final professional tournament win was the 1989 Irish Masters when he defeated Stephen Hendry.<ref name="FG"/>
1990sEdit
At the 1990 British Open, Higgins lost 8–10 in the final against Canadian player Bob Chaperon, which was his last appearance in a major final. Higgins received a runner-up prize of £45,000, the highest of his career.Template:Sfn After losing his first-round match to Steve James at the 1990 World Championship, Higgins remained in his seat in the arena for some time, ordering several vodka and orange drinks, slouched in his chair and twitching.Template:Sfn Afterwards, he punched tournament official Colin Randle in the abdomen before the start of a press conference at which he announced his retirement, and abused the media as he left. This followed another incident at the 1990 World Cup, where he repeatedly argued with fellow player and compatriot Dennis Taylor, insulting his late mother and threatening to have him shot if he returned to Northern Ireland.Template:Sfn For his conduct, Higgins was banned for the rest of the season and all of the next.<ref name="Times online">Template:Cite news</ref> During his 15-month ban Higgins released a biography video, I'm No Angel (1991).Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1992, Higgins and his collaborators Oliver Reed and the Troggs released "Wild Thing" as a single.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Higgins' return to the professional circuit began in August 1991, when he registered for pre-season qualifying matches. Now ranked 120th in the world, he was whitewashed by 20-year old Adrian Rosa and failed to qualify for five other subsequent tournaments.Template:Sfn Higgins reached the last 16 of the 1991 Dubai Classic but lost to Steve James. He also reached the televised stages of the 1991 UK Championship, but lost 9–4 to Stephen Hendry in the first round. During their post-match handshake, Hendry claimed Higgins said "Up your arse, you cunt" to him. After Hendry reported the incident to the governing body, the case was settled in a London court in August 1992, nine months later. Higgins was fined £500, bringing the total amount of fines as a professional to £23,200.Template:Sfn Darren Morgan defeated Higgins 10–1 in qualifying for the 1992 World Championship which Higgins described as "surreal snooker ... never in ten years would I believe that result", and demanded he and Morgan take a drug test. He later apologised.Template:Sfn
He competed in pre-season qualifying matches against amateurs, including former women's champion Stacey Hillyard.Template:Sfn Higgins reached the televised rounds of the 1994 World Championship and the last-32 of an event in three years.Template:Sfn Facing fellow Irishman Ken Doherty in the first round, he lost 6Template:Nbnd10.Template:Sfn The following year, during the qualifying rounds, he complained that the match referee John Williams was distracting him, not by standing in his line of vision but by being "in his line of thought", when he was on a break that had reached 103.Template:Sfn<ref name="ENDG">Template:Cite news</ref> Williams refused to move, and Higgins, in tears, continued his break, eventually making 137, his highest-ever in a world championship match.Template:Sfn<ref name="ENDG"/> He was a member of the victorious Europe Team for the 1995 Mosconi Cup, a pool competition.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1997, shortly after Ken Doherty won that year's World Championship, he agreed to play Higgins in an exhibition match at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast as a benefit. Doherty, who had idolised Higgins as a youngster, secured a 5–4 victory and the event raised £10,000 for Higgins.Template:Sfn On 1 August 1997, Higgins played what became his final match on the professional circuit with a 5–1 defeat to Neil Mosley, the world No. 182, at the Plymouth Pavilions in Qualifying School. He failed to appear at his next two scheduled qualifying matches. Higgins was ranked No. 155 in the world at the time of his final match.Template:Sfn
Post-retirementEdit
After his retirement from the professional game, Higgins spent time playing for small sums of money in and around Northern Ireland. He made appearances in the 2005 and 2006 Irish Professional Championship, these comebacks ending in first-round defeats by Garry Hardiman and Joe Delaney, respectively.Template:Cn
On 12 June 2007, it was reported that Higgins had assaulted a referee at a charity match in the north-east of England.<ref name="assault">Template:Cite news</ref> Higgins returned to competitive action in September 2007 at the Irish Professional Championship in Dublin but was whitewashed 0–5 by former British Open champion Fergal O'Brien in the first round at the Spawell Club, Templeogue.<ref name="Higgins back in action">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His autobiography, From the Eye of the Hurricane: My Story, was published in 2007.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Higgins continued to play fairly regularly, and enjoyed "hustling" all comers for small-time stakes in clubs in Northern Ireland and beyond; in May 2009 he entered the Northern Ireland Amateur Championship, "to give it a crack",<ref name="N. Ireland Amateurs 2009">Template:Cite news</ref> but failed to appear for his match.<ref name="TOBIT">Template:Cite news</ref>
On 8 April 2010, Higgins was part of the debut Snooker Legends Tour event in Sheffield, at the Crucible. Appearing alongside other retired or close-to-retiring professionals, including John Parrott, Jimmy White, John Virgo and Cliff Thorburn. He faced Thorburn in his match, but lost 0Template:Nbnd2.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
It is estimated that Higgins earned and spent £3–4 million in his career as a snooker player.<ref name="fortune">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Tel death 2"/>
Playing styleEdit
In describing Higgins's unconventional playing technique, his fellow professional Willie Thorne said that "He does everything wrong: his stance is square, he lifts his head, his arm's bent, he snatches at some of his shots." Thorne concluded that Higgins would be the worst example for an aspiring player to imitate.Template:Sfn Higgins's grip on his cue was less firm than typically employed by professional players.Template:Sfn Author Brendan Cooper wrote that "Beset with twitches, sniffs, and odd jerks of the limbs, Higgins would approach the table like a battered boxer trying to stay upright."Template:Sfn
Originally an out-and-out attacking player, Higgins developed his tactical game throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Thorburn praised his innovative positional play, citing him as one of the first players to "break out reds from potting the red, which is a very difficult thing to do."Template:Sfn Williams and Gadsby wrote that as Higgins grew older, his "technical shortcomings became burdensome", and that he began to fail on more shots as his hand-eye co-ordination declined, but note that he maintained a world championship career lasting over two decades.Template:Sfn Writing for the Dictionary of Irish Biography, James Quinn said that "His daredevil style thrilled audiences and inspired the kind of adulation and raucous cheering normally heard in football stadiums rather than snooker halls" but a lack of consistency and discipline meant that Higgins failed to achieve as much as his potential should have allowed.<ref name="DIB"/>
Other media appearancesEdit
Higgins partnered Kenny Lynch in Pro-Celebrity Snooker on ITV in 1978.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was a guest on A Question of Sport in 1980,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and on Give Us a Clue the following year.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The 1984 series International Pro Celebrity Golf on BBC2 saw Higgins and Greg Norman play Lynch and Tom Watson.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Two video games with Higgins's likeness were released for Amstrad computers in 1985, titled Alex Higgins' World Snooker and Alex Higgins' World Pool.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In 1987 he appeared with Kruger on the chat show Wogan on the day he had been fined £12,000 and banned for five tournaments by the WPBSA, appearing relaxed and saying that he accepted the sanctions.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
He made another appearance on Wogan in 1991.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Higgins appeared in the Sporting Stars edition of the British television quiz The Weakest Link on 25 July 2009.<ref name="link">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
At the time of his 1972 triumph at the World Championship, Higgins related that he did not have a permanent address, and had recently lived in a row of abandoned houses in Blackburn which were awaiting demolition. In one week he had moved into five different houses on the same street, moving down one every time his current dwelling was demolished.Template:Sfn
Higgins married twice and had four children from three different relationships. In 1971, he met Joyce Fox and they had a son, Chris, in 1975.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> They separated six months later; in 2001, Fox told her son that Higgins was his father and they reconnected in 2003.<ref name="DIB">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In April 1975, Higgins married Australian Cara Hasler in Sydney.Template:Sfn They had a daughter, Christel, and their divorce was finalised in 1979.Template:Sfn<ref name="warning">Template:Cite news</ref> In January 1980 Higgins married Lynn Avison in Wilmslow, Cheshire.Template:Sfn They had a daughter, Lauren, in 1980 and son Jordan in 1983.<ref name="Clive Everton assessment" /><ref name="HOTCOLD"/> They split in 1985<ref name="Tel turbulent">Template:Cite news</ref> and divorced. In the same year, Higgins began a relationship with Siobhan Kidd, which ended in 1989 after he allegedly hit her with a hairdryer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1990, he began a relationship with former call girl Holly Haise (a pseudonym of Laura Croucher, her real name). They split in August 1997 after Croucher stabbed Higgins three times during a domestic argument.Template:Sfn<ref name="Tel turbulent"/>
Higgins had a long and enduring friendship with actor Oliver Reed,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> who appeared on This Is Your Life when Higgins was the subject in 1981.<ref name="CARPET"/>
In 1983, Higgins helped a young boy from Manchester, a fan of his who had been in a coma for two months, after his parents wrote to him. He recorded messages on tape and sent them to the boy with his best wishes. He later visited the boy in hospital and played a snooker match that he promised to have with him when he recovered.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1996, Higgins was convicted of assaulting a 14-year-old boy and was given a conditional discharge. Higgins later described the case as "a farce which should not have been brought to court".<ref name="Tel death 2">Template:Cite news</ref> In total, he was arrested 17 times.Template:Sfn
Illness and deathEdit
For many years, Higgins smoked heavily; he reportedly smoked 80 cigarettes a day.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He had an operation on cancerous growths on his palate in 1996.<ref name="FG">Template:Cite magazine</ref> In June 1998, he was found to have throat cancer;<ref name="FG"/> on 13Template:NbspOctober of that year, he had major surgery.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He could only talk in a whisper in his last years.<ref name="belfasttelegraph.co.uk">Template:Cite news</ref>
In early 2010, Higgins suffered from pneumonia and breathing problems,<ref name="BBC obituary"/> and on 31Template:NbspMarch he was admitted to hospital.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In April 2010 Higgins' friends announced that they had set up a campaign to help raise the £20,000 he needed for teeth implants, to enable him to eat properly again and put on weight. Higgins had lost his teeth after intensive radiotherapy used to treat his throat cancer. It was reported that since losing them he had been living on liquid food, and had become increasingly depressed, even contemplating suicide.<ref name=belf-tele-suicide>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was too ill and frail to have the implants fitted.<ref name="mourns">Template:Cite news</ref> Despite his illness, Higgins continued to smoke cigarettes and drink heavily until the end of his life.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was admitted to hospital again in May.<ref name="belfasttelegraph.co.uk"/>
By the summer of 2010, Higgins' weight had fallen to 6.5 stone (41 kilograms).<ref name="Tel death 2"/> Despite having once been worth £4 million, he was bankrupt and survived on a £200-a-week disability allowance.<ref name=belf-tele-suicide/> He was found dead in bed in his flat on 24Template:NbspJuly 2010.<ref name="Tel death"/><ref name="BBC death">Template:Cite news</ref> The cause of death was a combination of malnutrition, pneumonia, tooth decay and a bronchial condition, although his daughter Lauren stated that he was clear from throat cancer when he died.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Higgins' funeral service was held at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, on 2Template:NbspAugust 2010. He was buried in Carnmoney Cemetery in Newtownabbey, County Antrim. Among the snooker professionals in attendance were Jimmy White, Willie Thorne, Stephen Hendry, Ken Doherty, Joe Swail,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Shaun Murphy and John Virgo.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Doherty and White were pall bearers.Template:Cn
LegacyEdit
Alex Higgins was an inspiration to many subsequent professional snooker players, including Ken Doherty, Jimmy White and Ronnie O'Sullivan.Template:Cn In Clive Everton's TV documentary The Story of Snooker (2002), Steve Davis described Higgins as the "one true genius that snooker has produced".<ref name="The Story of Snooker">Template:Cite news</ref> Higgins arguably fulfilled his potential only intermittently during his career peak in the 1970s and 1980s; Everton puts this down to Davis and Ray Reardon generally being too consistent for him.<ref name="Clive Everton assessment">Template:Cite news</ref> O'Sullivan has called Higgins "the greatest snooker player I have ever seen" when he was playing at his best, while also acknowledging that his erratic lifestyle caused Higgins to have a lack of consistency on the table.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Higgins's exciting style and explosive persona helped make snooker a growing sport in the 1970s and 1980s.Template:Sfn He made a 16-red clearance in a challenge match in 1976; it was a break of 146, with the brown potted as the first "red", and 16 colours: one green, five pinks and ten blacks.<ref name="clearances">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2011, Event 8 of the Players Tour Championship was renamed as the Alex Higgins International Trophy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2016, WPBSA chairman Barry Hearn announced that the trophy for the new Northern Ireland Open tournament would be named after Higgins.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Richard Dormer wrote and directed a one-person play based on Higgins's career, titled Hurricane (2004).<ref name="DORHUR">Template:Cite news</ref> Following performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, for which Dormer won The Stage Edinburgh Fringe Best Actor award, the production transferred to the West End and then toured the UK.Template:Sfn<ref name="DORHUR"/>
The professional rivalry between Alex Higgins and Steve Davis was portrayed in a 2016 BBC feature film titled The Rack Pack, in which Higgins was played by Luke Treadaway.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Performance and rankings timelineEdit
| Season | 1971/ 72 |
1972/ 73 |
1973/ 74 |
1974/ 75 |
1975/ 76 |
1976/ 77 |
1977/ 78 |
1978/ 79 |
1979/ 80 |
1980/ 81 |
1981/ 82 |
1982/ 83 |
1983/ 84 |
1984/ 85 |
1985/ 86 |
1986/ 87 |
1987/ 88 |
1988/ 89 |
1989/ 90 |
1990/ 91 |
1991/ 92 |
1992/ 93 |
1993/ 94 |
1994/ 95 |
1995/ 96 |
1996/ 97 |
1997/ 98 |
Template:Abbr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking | No ranking system | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 24 | 97 | 120 | 72 | 61 | 48 | 51 | 99 | 156 | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}} | ||||
| Tournament | 1971/ 72 |
1972/ 73 |
1973/ 74 |
1974/ 75 |
1975/ 76 |
1976/ 77 |
1977/ 78 |
1978/ 79 |
1979/ 80 |
1980/ 81 |
1981/ 82 |
1982/ 83 |
1983/ 84 |
1984/ 85 |
1985/ 86 |
1986/ 87 |
1987/ 88 |
1988/ 89 |
1989/ 90 |
1990/ 91 |
1991/ 92 |
1992/ 93 |
1993/ 94 |
1994/ 95 |
1995/ 96 |
1996/ 97 |
1997/ 98 |
Template:Abbr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong Open<ref group="nb" name="auto">The event ran under different names such as the Australian Masters (1983/1984 to 1987/1988 and 1995/1996) and Australian Open (1994/1995).</ref> (Ranking from 1989) | Not Held | A | A | A | RR | QF | A | 1R | A | SF | NH | 3R | Not Held | NR | NR | NH | <ref>Template:Cite magazine Template:Cite magazine</ref>}Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||
| Grand Prix | Not Held | 2R | 1R | 2R | 3R | 3R | A | F | 2R | A | LQ | LQ | 1R | LQ | LQ | LQ | A | Template:Sfn | ||||||||||||
| Canadian Masters<ref group="nb" name="auto1">The event was also called the Canadian Open (1974/1975–1980/1981)</ref> (Ranking in 1988) | Not Held | SF | W | F | W | SF | SF | SF | Not Held | A | SF | A | LQ | Not Held | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||
| Asian Classic<ref group="nb">The event was also called the Dubai Masters (1988/1989), Dubai Classic (1989/90–1994/1995) and Thailand Classic (1995/1996)</ref> | Not Held | NR | QF | WD | 3R | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | NH | Template:Sfn | ||||||||||||||||||
| European Open | Not Held | 2R | 2R | WD | LQ | 1R | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | NH | Template:Sfn | ||||||||||||||||||
| UK Championship (Ranking from 1984) | Not Held | SF | SF | QF | F | QF | F | W | F | 3R | SF | 2R | 2R | 2R | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | 3R | LQ | LQ | A | Template:Sfn | |||||||
| German Open | Not Held | LQ | WD | A | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Welsh Open | Not Held | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | A | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||||||||
| International Open<ref group="nb" name="auto3">The event was also called the Goya Matchroom Trophy (1985/1986)</ref> (Ranking from 1982) | Not Held | SF | 2R | 1R | QF | 3R | 2R | A | 1R | 1R | Not Held | LQ | 1R | LQ | LQ | LQ | A | Template:Sfn | ||||||||||||
| Strachan Open | Not Held | LQ | MR | NR | Not Held | Template:Sfn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thailand Open<ref group="nb">The event was also called the Thailand Masters (1983/1984–1986/1987 & 1991/1992) and the Asian Open (1989/1990–1992/1993)</ref> | Not Held | Non-Ranking Event | Not Held | 2R | WD | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | WD | A | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||||
| Classic (Ranking from 1984) | Not Held | F | QF | SF | 1R | 2R | 2R | QF | 2R | 3R | 2R | 2R | A | LQ | Not Held | Template:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> | |||||||||||||
| British Open<ref group="nb" name="auto2">The event was also called the British Gold Cup (1979/1980), Yamaha Organs Trophy (1980/1981) and International Masters (1981/1982–1983/1984)</ref> (Ranking from 1985) | Not Held | W | RR | RR | RR | RR | SF | SF | 1R | 1R | 2R | F | A | LQ | 1R | LQ | 1R | LQ | LQ | A | Template:Sfn | |||||||||
| World Championship (Ranking from 1974) | W | SF | QF | SF | F | 1R | 1R | QF | F | 2R | W | SF | 1R | 2R | 2R | 2R | 1R | LQ | 1R | A | LQ | LQ | 1R | LQ | LQ | LQ | WD | Template:Sfn | ||
| Tournament | 1971/ 72 |
1972/ 73 |
1973/ 74 |
1974/ 75 |
1975/ 76 |
1976/ 77 |
1977/ 78 |
1978/ 79 |
1979/ 80 |
1980/ 81 |
1981/ 82 |
1982/ 83 |
1983/ 84 |
1984/ 85 |
1985/ 86 |
1986/ 87 |
1987/ 88 |
1988/ 89 |
1989/ 90 |
1990/ 91 |
1991/ 92 |
1992/ 93 |
1993/ 94 |
1994/ 95 |
1995/ 96 |
1996/ 97 |
1997/ 98 |
Template:Abbr | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park Drive 2000 (Spring) | F | Not Held | <ref name="GBSPD">Template:Cite book</ref> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Park Drive 2000 (Autumn) | A | F | Not Held | <ref name="GBSPD" /> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Men of the Midlands | W | W | Not Held | <ref name="MOMT"/> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Norwich Union Open | Not Held | SF | SF | Not Held | Template:Sfn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Watney Open | Not Held | W | Not Held | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scottish Masters | Not Held | SF | F | SF | SF | QF | F | QF | NH | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | Template:Sfn | ||||||||||||||||
| The Masters | Not Held | QF | QF | SF | W | F | F | W | SF | 1R | QF | QF | 1R | F | QF | A | WR | A | LQ | LQ | LQ | A | LQ | A | A | Template:Sfn | |||||||||
| Irish Masters<ref group="nb">The event was also called the Benson & Hedges Ireland Tournament (1974/1975–1976/1977)</ref> | Not Held | F | F | W | SF | SF | SF | SF | SF | SF | SF | F | 1R | 1R | SF | W | QF | A | 1R | A | A | A | A | A | A | Template:Sfn | |||||||||
| European League<ref group="nb">The event was also called the Professional Snooker League (1983/1984), Matchroom League (1986/1987 to 1991/1992), Premier League (1997/98)</ref> | Not Held | RR | Not Held | A | A | RR | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||||||
| Pontins Professional | Not Held | A | A | A | A | RR | A | A | A | QF | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | Template:Sfn | ||||||||
| Canadian Club Masters | Not Held | W | Not Held | <ref name="CANCLUB">Template:Cite book</ref> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Matchplay Championship | Not Held | QF | Not Held | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dry Blackthorn Cup | Not Held | F | Not Held | <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Holsten Lager International | Not Held | SF | Not Held | <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Forward Chemicals Tournament | Not Held | RR | Not Held | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Padmore Super Crystalate | Not Held | W | Not Held | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pontins Camber Sands | Not Held | W | Not Held | <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Champion of Champions | Not Held | F | NH | RR | Not Held | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Ireland Classic | Not Held | QF | Not Held | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highland Masters | Not Held | SF | Not Held | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tolly Cobbold Classic | Not Held | W | W | SF | A | QF | A | Not Held | Template:Sfn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Template:Nowrap | Not Held | SF | Not Held | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pot Black | A | RR | A | A | A | A | RR | A | A | RR | RR | RR | 1R | A | 1R | Not Held | A | A | A | Not Held | <ref>Template:Cite book {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |
CitationClass=web
}} |
CitationClass=web
}} |
CitationClass=web
}} |
CitationClass=web
}} |
CitationClass=web
}} |
CitationClass=web
}}</ref> | ||||||||
| Belgian Classic | Not Held | SF | Not Held | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Carlsberg Challenge | Not Held | SF | F | SF | A | A | Not Held | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kent Cup | Not Held | A | QF | A | A | A | NH | A | Not Held | <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hong Kong Gold Cup | Not Held | F | Not Held | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International League | Not Held | RR | Not Held | <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Template:Nowrap | Not Held | 1R | Not Held | <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Template:Nowrap | W | Not Held | W | W | W | F | A | F | W | NH | F | F | WD | QF | W | Not Held | A | QF | Not Held | Template:Sfn | |||||||||||||||
| Tenball | Not Held | QF | Not Held | <ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance Table Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) |
QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
| SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
| DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament |
| NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. | |||
| NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. | |||
| R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event. | |||
| MR / Minor ranking Event | means an event was a minor ranking event. | |||
Career finalsEdit
Ranking finals: 6 (1 title)Edit
| Legend |
|---|
| World Championship (1–2)Template:Efn |
| UK Championship (0–1)Template:Efn |
| Other (0–2) |
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 1. | 1976 | World Championship | Template:Flagathlete | 16–27 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 1980 | World Championship (2) | Template:Flagathlete | 16–18 |
| Winner | 1. | 1982 | World Championship (2) | Template:Flagathlete | 18–15 |
| Runner-up | 3. | 1984 | UK Championship (3) | Template:Flagathlete | 8–16 |
| Runner-up | 4. | 1988 | Grand Prix | Template:Flagathlete | 6–10 |
| Runner-up | 5. | 1990 | British Open | Template:Flagathlete | 8–10 |
Non-ranking finals: 63 (33 titles)Edit
| Legend |
|---|
| World Championship (1–0)Template:Efn |
| UK Championship (1–2)Template:Efn |
| The Masters (2–3) |
| Other (29–23) |
Pro-am finals: 4 (3 titles)Edit
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score | Template:Abbr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1. | 1975 | Castle Open | Template:Flagathlete | 5–2 | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |
| Winner | 2. | 1977 | Pontins Spring Open | Template:Flagathlete | 7–4 | <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
| Winner | 3. | 1979 | Castle Open (2) | Template:Flagathlete | 5–1 | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |
| Runner-up | 1. | 1987 | Dutch Open | Template:Flagathlete | 2–6 | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
Team finals: 6 (5 titles)Edit
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Team/partner | Opponent(s) in the final | Score | Template:Ref heading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1. | 1975 | Ladbroke International | Rest of the WorldTemplate:Efn | Template:FlagcountryTemplate:Efn | +113Template:Efn | Template:Sfn |
| Winner | 2. | 1984 | World Doubles Championship | Template:Flagathlete | Template:Flagathlete and Template:Flagathlete | 10–2 | Template:Sfn |
| Winner | 3. | 1985 | World Cup | IrelandTemplate:Efn | Template:FlagcountryTemplate:Efn | 9–7 | Template:Sfn |
| Winner | 4. | 1986 | World Cup (2) | Ireland "A"Template:Efn | Template:FlagcountryTemplate:Efn | 9–7 | Template:Sfn |
| Winner | 5. | 1987 | World Cup (3) | IrelandTemplate:Efn | Template:FlagcountryTemplate:Efn | 9–2 | Template:Sfn |
| Runner-up | 1. | 1990 | World Cup | Template:FlagcountryTemplate:Efn | Template:FlagcountryTemplate:Efn | 5–9 | <ref name="CAN2">Template:Cite news</ref> |
Amateur finals: 3 (2 titles)Edit
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score | Template:Abbr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1. | 1968 | Template:Nowrap | Template:Flagathlete | 4–1 | <ref name="GS profile">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref><ref name="NI68">Template:Cite news</ref> |
| Winner | 2. | 1968 | All-Ireland Amateur Championship | Template:Flagathlete | 4–1 | <ref name="AI1968"/> | |
| Runner-up | 1. | 1969 | Northern Ireland Amateur Championship | Template:Flagathlete | 0–4 | <ref name="NI1969"/> |
Straight poolEdit
| Outcome | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score | Template:Abbr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1976 | Australian Invitational Pocket Billiards Championship | Template:Flagathlete | 200–98 | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
NotesEdit
Template:Reflist Template:Notelist
ReferencesEdit
BibliographyEdit
Template:Refbegin Template:Div col
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
Template:Div col end Template:Refend
Further readingEdit
External linksEdit
Template:Sister project Template:Portal
Template:World snooker champions Template:UK Championship winners Template:Masters winners Template:1995 European Mosconi Cup team Template:Authority control