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 ...

that won the inaugural World Cup of snooker, beating England 14-3. Griffiths' victories at the 1980 Masters and 1982 UK Championship mean he is one of only 11 players to have completed snooker's ...

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.