I was at this match. Me and a mate tried to get Higgins's autograph as he was coming out of his hotel before the final session. He'd already signed for this other lad who was with us the day before so he tried to avoid us and almost tripped over a kerb. He walked to the venue with his manager. Davis was surrounded by his entourage of about five inc Barry Hearn and we couldn't get near him. We ended up getting Len Ganley's autograph who was very friendly.

Higgins was a swashbuckling unpredictable genius round the table, he flitted arround always twitching and never still like an uncoiled spring and pottng shots from here there and everywhere, no ball was safe. But you couldn't keep your eyes of him when in full flow, he was mesmerizing to watch. Higgins was a great player to watch as you never knew what to expect. Great player.

I remember this fantastic final. Cant believe it was 1983... where does the time go.

When Davis says " another handshake " ! Brilliant

Even when they shook hands at the end, Steve Davis chalked his cue!!

Len " Ball Crusher " Ganley :) My favourite Ref ever :)

The legend that was Alex. The greatest player to put snooker on the map. Not the best player ever I know but the peoples champion who made us love the game. He gambled, he drank, he smoked, he lived the high life, in all not a bad old life aye. Life today is fitness freaks and salad then a early night, dear old Alex would have said, Fuck that 😂 RIP Champ

lol.... 5.54 steve chalking his cue

Still for me, the most exciting game of Snooker...of all time!

Steve Davis is a gentleman!

Alex and Steve gave us an amazing final to watch.

Alex Higgins - the greatest snooker player of all time. Just like Ali and George best the players that followed owe their very existence, as highly paid sports personalities, to these men. Steve Davis was great in his own right. He respected Alex.

Whispering Ted Lowe, the best commentator ever.

Tavy@ alex higgins would of been the greatest player ever in the game if he had played for himself and not to please the crowd and then later the huge tv audience that he drew to watch the game. It was going nowhere till alex came on the scene. Alex wouldv won at least 7 world titles and 7 uk titles and all the rest, he was born to play the game, i was only age 9 in 1982 when jimmy white just needed 1 frame to get to the final and was 59 points ahead in that frame and alex had to win it to make it 15 each, but i just couldnt believe the way he won that frame under that amount of pressure and he potted about 6 balls and i will never know how he managed it. He was taking on pots you would do at an exhibition match but taking his time and he potted a long blue and put so much left hand side screw on it to come back of the cushion and down into the reds to the pot a long red from near the black spot and the red was near the pink spot and he put into the top right hand pocket. It was amazing to watch and still is. Players past and present talk about that famous long blue alex did, and a forgott to say he was bridging over about 7 reds and the pink and black. But the players have all admitted they have tried that very same shot at least 30 times and none has got it right, as in the deep left sided screw back of the middle cushion and back down to next to the black. And a dont even know if that was his best shot on that break. If he practiced and lived like steve davis a believe alex would of beaten him alot lot more and any one about at that time. Rip alex and thancks

If I started playing and loving snooker it's because of Alex Higgins, one of the most talented players of all time, RIP champion..

A snooker genius !!! RIP

Liked how Davis chalked his cue after he conceded.😄

You could see how much that hurt Davis,THE look on his face was priceless.

Higgins entertainer extraordinaire .... saw every ball of it as a 12yr old boy.

That was a great final

The game is so much evolved now just imagine putting Ronnie to play that safety shot or having him clear the table instead of the way Alex did...

Alex was a one off genuis great potter great player 😀😀 rip Alex

5:52 Jim Royle in the background had Barb's housekeeping money on a Higgins win there! 😋

What a brilliant commentator Ted Lowe was, he created even more drama than the players.

I always love watching these classic Higgins clips...'cos you always get O'Sullivan fans saying how much better he is. Errr so why are you here then? Cos it irritates you how Alex Higgins is still the number 1 name in the history of Snooker that's why! Lap it up!!!!!!

Higgins flicking his head at the end and saying OH hahahaha

That time, they don't know, king of snooker was 7 and half year old, 😊

the ollie reed of snooker legend

It's so emotional watching this as I rem the company I was in when it happened.

Alex made snooker what it became rip Alex thanks for the memories growing up in the 80s 😎👍🎱

Lol why was poor Steve still chalking his cue after he just conceded the last frame ?? Did he think they would have a re rack ? 😂 lol

Absolute legend the greatest player to hold a cue pure genius

Higgins never showed off when he played Davis, always tried his hardest to beat him. Must have respected him more

both fantastic players and Ted Lowe this before Hendry and O Sullivan Jimmy was around also the eighties and nineties where great for Snooker

This was the greatest comeback I've ever seen

Alex Higgins the people's champion

davis resigned then chalked his cue !!!

Não sou da época de Alex Higgins , mais sou amante do bilhar, e pra mim Alex Higgins foi fenomenal...

Alex higgins great great player, not worth watching snooker these days unless Ronnie playing

'another handshake', class from Davis at end of interview!

Steve chalks his cue then the nod... 🤩

I like the plants in the background

Impressive indeed. "3rd time lucky" & "3rd time unlucky" now that's Wow. Tyvm for the video and may Alex always have a cue in his hand like a magic wand, above and beyond of which I'm fond. The genius is undeniable. Some saw him mad and sad, but the rat race of humanity is the real insanity. He was driven by his own desire, and loved to light his fuse or fire. As do I sit with wit and wonder why I'm such a techno twit.😀

You know he's playing snooker in heaven 🙏🏻

Just awesome Higgins ...............he was 0-7 down to davis

Tavy@ a thinck its sad to see steve davis sitting terriffied of alex all the time. That was the down side to his game. But he was a natural born genius. If he played for himself and not for the crowd and lived and practised like steve davis alex would of been unstoppable. You only have to look at the times when he didnt play for the crowd and played for himself he hammerd davis after coming back from 7-0 down in the uk final to win it. Then in that 1982 world semi final against jimmy white when jimmy was 15-14 up and 59 points ahead and alex got in but that break he made that night with the balls he potted and that famous long blue with deep left hand side screw back of the side cushion while bridgeing over 8 balls to bring the white back down next to a red was just awe some. Even barry hearn said its the best break i have ever seen in all my years in the game, i have watched it about a hundred times and theres 6 or 7 shots a just dont know how he managed to do them!!! Rip alex and thancks. Legend

Legend

This was higgins greatest win

"It was incredible wasn't it." Alex immediately sees things from the fans' perspective, both a great at snooker and also in tune to what it means to the average fan.

i would say to people when on a run " i don't know what your chalking your cue for"

Davis facial expressions when Alex said he had his head together haha

was this when Davies lead 7-0? I thought it was 1985 not 1983...I am missing 2 years. :-) Damm...I can remember this fightback. Was this Higgins last stand? I do not recall him doing much after this? Superb win.

Clapping for nearly every shot no matter how easy!

The man had bottle!

Steve has admitted he was terrified by Alex as a person, he looks very nervous in his company lol

Alex was great to watch

If only he played more like this,but that's not Alex,you never knew what you were getting ?

Higgins was a very tough player,

Steve Davis wasn't appreciated during his pomp. Same with Hendry. They're both sound blokes.

Pretty easy to play check side for these boys back in the day the pockets were 10% bigger so slightly more room for error

It’s funny that Higgins is seen as a peoples champion when snooker was never open to new players in those days , the public couldnt participate, just because he was a bit unscripted and less robotic doesn’t mean he wasn’t a corporate mannequin on the take like everyone else .

A/C 😎✌💓

Davis is fuming sitting in the chair at the end.

Unfortunately, he probably blew his winnings on his next great love, horses

Poor Steve, awkwardly chalking his cue after defeat at the end there 5:55

If Higgins couldn't do it, it couldn't be done.

5.56 when Davis looks at Higgins in envy not at Higgins life, but the way in which The Public took to Alex, an entertainer, a genius, loved by his fans, had charisma, never boring Sadly everything that Steve Davis didn't have, and never would have. When you cash in a personality for success and winning titles like the Romford Robot did, you may have riches, success, trophys, but you will never have what Alex Higgins had

His 69 break against Jimmy White was better 1982 World Championships semi final

Six years before he won another tourney.

Higgins cue ball position was always poor, but could not just about anything. Mid 80s I remember him making a hell of a lot of finals but getting beat.

To go 7-0 down and recover to win 16-15 against a snooker robot sums up Alex.

I was there that night in Preston and Davis never was any good under extreme pressure losing to Higgins. Hendry and Dennis Taylor in deciding frames in big matches.

5:51 No need to chalk your cue Steve! The game is over!

Haha Davis was chalking his cue after he conceded. He looked like he lost 20 quid and found a penny.

The game was boring until The Hurricane came on the scene. Is there snooker on the telly? I for one one wouldn't be that interested unless Higgins was playing.

Davis is my snooker Hero, but dam does he Hate Losing! Lol

It's bloody good job Alex was good potter sometimes his positional play is rubbish

Everyone has failed to mention NEARLY EVERY SINGLE SHOT DEAR ALEX MADE WAS APPLAUDED. THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

hurricane ??? a fucking snail

i won a thousand quid with a tenner on this... yeh... when Alex was way behind I still maintained he would beat Steve... so I was given 10 to 1 and placed a fiver... and my boss felt sorry for me and raised the odds to 100-1... so i upped my stake to a tenner..... and the frames started falling....

Everybody seems to think that Steve was the most interesting (hence his nickname). I wasn't a big fan of Alex, I have to say. Gowever, I honestly found him more interesting. I know I'll get slaughtered here in the comments for it but I'm just being honest about it.

Davis always carried that aura of being smug and slightly up himself.. I know he didnt mean it.

still chalking...hahaha...habits

This match brillaint. Alex opens his mouth it usually embarrasses NI PEOPLE BUT STRANGE HE DIDNT THIS TIME. GREAT TO SEE HIM BEATING GINGER

Yes Davis was a great player but robotic and he had no flair he would never take a chance, punters like watching players like Alex , Jimmy and Ronnie Raz x

The game was less tactical back then. Davis' route of escape at the start was obviously below today's standard.

What's happened to snooker? It's not the same anymore :(

Alex was a great player but not the greatest

Higgins on coke in a final as clear as day... and won lol

You see: they were not that good!

About a year after Alex died I was visiting Belfast and stopped in on a few of Alex’s old haunts, none of the patrons had a kind word to say about him

pockets were huge

Alex could be a bit flukey at times. I suppose this was one of those times.

The most annoying commentator John Spencer. 'Every shot is a pressure shot'. Ugh !

Davis was a bad looser

The quality of the game was dreadful. Decent club players would smash this standard now

Higgins was a good player in his era but he wouldn’t make the top 16 in today’s game, even at his peak.