CLIFF THORBURN was chased by his old boss after quitting his job to play snooker full-time. Eleven years before he won the ...
EUROSPORT presenter Radzi Chinyanganya believes that taking the World Snooker Championship abroad would signal the “start of ...
The dapper Griffiths went on to become one of snooker’s most recognisable ... the quarter-finals of the World Championship for nine consecutive years between 1984 and 1992, reaching the final ...
White never managed to win the World Snooker Championship despite reaching six finals between 1984 and 1994. He has since triumphed at the World Senior Championship on four occasions, a record ...
Snooker's Triple Crown consists of the sport's three most prestigious titles: the UK Championship, the Masters, and the World ...
when the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) took control of the sport. The first World Championships ran from 1927 - with a break from 1941-45 because of World War II and ...
Silvino Francisco, a South African snooker player who was prominent in the 1980s and was later jailed for three years for smuggling cannabis, has passed away aged 78 ...
These Triple Crown events are: The World Championship: Snooker's blue riband event ... That changed in 1984, though, as it was made a ranking event and open to all professional players.