The Year Of The Hurricane (world snooker championship review 1982)

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5 жыл бұрын

taken from an old vhs tape made of the BBC programme shown later that year, please excuse the usual vhs tape deterioration affecting picture and sound in some places.
enjoy.

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@nervo6321 Жыл бұрын

As a huge snooker fan fo 50 years…1982 will always have a special place in my heart.

@mickey841q 4 жыл бұрын

Reardon enjoying a twilight to his career in this final having been so dominant in the 70s. Steve Davies was to dominate the majority of the 80s. What a talent Higgins was and 2 world titles to his name was to be proud of and perhaps would have won more had he not has his troubles off the table. Hell of a player and entertainer.

@terrycharnley 3 жыл бұрын

@David Robinson try to ignore the stick you get, stay with what you believe, criticism goes with the territory. I'm with you if that's any consolation. Alex was a snooker genius, brilliant, showy and controversial, because of his temperament, but it can't be denied, that was all a part of the amazing package that was Alex Higgins and it won him two world Titles.

@terrycharnley 3 жыл бұрын

@David Robinson You'd be right, yes. I was born 23rd December 1969, the last week of the sixties and the year of the moon-landing. The 70s for me were fine, nice memories, but the 80s were horrible for me personally, a horrible childhood and bad memories, and it's only now that I've been able to enjoy the great music and movies and everything else from the extraordinary era now that times for me are much better. Nice to know another 1969er! Gerard Butler was also born that year by the way, (huge fan, Angel Has Fallen, Geostorm) a month earlier than me.

@johnsrabe 17 күн бұрын

Welcome back! The early 1970s were ugly and angry in my house and I didn’t want to experience ANY of the media from that time for a long time.

@a.tanner8524 3 жыл бұрын

It doesn’t get much better than Higgins v White. Incredible

@davidgladwin6592 2 жыл бұрын

Alex higgings potted every ball like is life depended on it, wow wow wow

@everythingbobbywolfe 3 жыл бұрын

"... This may be the break of the tournament" Wrong. It ended up being the break of a lifetime.

@JohnSmith-su3ze 3 күн бұрын

Wrong. It was the greatest break of all-time.

@farmanaliraheemi8082 2 жыл бұрын

its not just a video but gem in #KZfaq... thanks a lot for uploading sir !

@ApartmentThe 3 жыл бұрын

Gutting to see Alex in later years....My fav...

@onepalproductions Жыл бұрын

This video is a treasure. Thanks.

@generalludendorff2657 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the amazing upload!

@dubtownman9508 4 жыл бұрын

Griffiths knew exactly what he was doing so as to miss the blue... that's why we have the miss rule now...too many players taking advantage back then... the miss rule needs modifying now .... 3 or 4 consecutive misses should result in ball in hand...that'll teach them

@michaelmuldowney8 3 жыл бұрын

Steve Davis came back from the shock first round loss to dominate the rest of the decade. Won/Won/ R-Up/R-Up/Won/Won/Won

@JapanDan144 2 жыл бұрын

I find it interesting that they used mismatched rests in a semi-final of a world championship. In the Reardon-Charlton match, Charlton eyes up the rest at 56:29. You'll notice that it has one of those cheap, white plastic rest heads. However, about six minutes later in the same frame, Reardon uses the rest from the other end of the table (102:23) and you'll notice that it's a proper brass rest with the black plastic feet. You'd expect something like that on a club table, but not at the Crucible! Kinda strange. Great video though. Thanks for the upload.

@vmax4steve524 2 жыл бұрын

The plastic headed rest was Charlton's own, he prefered them so took his own to tournaments.

@JohnSmith-su3ze 3 күн бұрын

@@vmax4steve524 Great info

@rayjacques8850 4 жыл бұрын

Reardon was quite an attacking player in his time. He faded very quickly after 1982.

@markwillcocks7701 Жыл бұрын

Eyesight problems had to start wearing specs from around 85

@dlamiss 4 ай бұрын

He was still ranked 6 at the start of the 85/6 season. thats when it all fell apart for him. His marriage collapsed and as said here his eye problems started. He hardly won a game in the 85/6 season

@rayjacques8850 4 ай бұрын

@@dlamiss By '84 he was a shadow of his former self. It's always sad to see a great player decline, he gave us some great entertainment in his day.

@dlamiss 4 ай бұрын

@@rayjacques8850 Still got to the semi final of the 1985 world championship though including beating Parrott in the last 8 but yes maybe the decline started in the 84/5 season and seriously escalated a year later

@JohnSmith-su3ze 3 күн бұрын

Reardon is the most complete snooker player of all-time. He's the only player who has EVERYTHING.

@tonysuley4306 Жыл бұрын

This must have been the best time of the hurricanes life then it all went to shit after.

@ChaslyMat 2 жыл бұрын

Steady Eddie the comb-over king!

@IrishBog 11 ай бұрын

Reardon was a cool dude

@djelalhassan7631 5 күн бұрын

Beautiful

@John-tz2tx 3 жыл бұрын

These days the crowd wouldn’t be allowed to ramble on while a game was in progress on the other side.

@jujulionesselsa1416 11 ай бұрын

I loved Fred David too.

@richfreck 3 жыл бұрын

They don't make Commentators like Ted Lowe anymore in an era which the BBC in all sports were superb.

@richfreck 3 жыл бұрын

@SavageArfad Ted Lowe was known as the "Voice of Snooker" which says it all.

@John-tz2tx 3 жыл бұрын

Alex in the wrong seat at the semi.

@pondermatic 3 жыл бұрын

The audio isn’t synced, unfortunately. Please could you fix and re-upload?

@vmax4steve524 3 жыл бұрын

This was copied from a vhs tape to dvd and then ripped to my pc, transfered the dvd file using Nero 2017 to a formatt acceptable to youtube and then uploaded. It took nearly eight hours to upload, why the audio isn't synced I don't know because the file on my pc is fine. If I knew why then I would fix it and re-upload, but I'm not that computer savvy I'm afraid.

@pondermatic 3 жыл бұрын

Vmax4steve That’s a shame. You’re not the only one who’s had this problem. It’s quite well known on the internet, it seems. What did you use to do the upload?

@vmax4steve524 3 жыл бұрын

@@pondermatic I didn't use any programme in particular, simply selected the file and clicked the youtube upload button. It is quite common on youtube, yes, I've watched several videos that have this problem, usually the longer ones, it seems to get progressively worse the longer the video is. I'm not using high speed fibre optical cable broadband, maybe that's the problem.

@pondermatic 3 жыл бұрын

Vmax4steve I wonder if it’s the file format.

@michaelmuldowney8 3 жыл бұрын

@@vmax4steve524 Anyone can download videos from KZfaq and then use one of the many video file player tools to align the audio for playback - if I can do it - then anyone can.

@Jessebella1 3 жыл бұрын

Sound is fine for me and synced fine? I was looking for the issue to hear it but for me everythings great, good upload mate. I wonder if the guy saying the sound is not synced realises that there is a game next door to this going on and he is hearing those people hit balls and not this match lol I dunno, you take 8 hours to upload something and we take 8 seconds to try and find something wrong with it. Thanks mate, enjoyed it a lot.

@johnmc3862 Жыл бұрын

Davis was sick for that match but Barry Hearn insisted he play of course.

@leeblack3016 Жыл бұрын

How on earth did Jimmy miss that red with the rest

@josefserf1926 Жыл бұрын

1:05:47 I don't think snooker technique can get any better than this.

@mddistribution30 3 ай бұрын

This is still the biggest upset in history of the world championship at the crucible. Strange that Davis was so off in this match! I wonder why he was so bad in this match. He made up for it in the rest of the 80s though didn't he?

@JohnSmith-su3ze 3 күн бұрын

Probably the most shocking result in snooker history

@JohnSmith-su3ze 3 күн бұрын

White is the most natural snooker player of all-time

@davidshaw3897 2 ай бұрын

If a young Jimmy White was playing like that nowadays the majority of young people wouldn't be interested in or talking about Ronnie O'Sullivan.

@jujulionesselsa1416 11 ай бұрын

Yes !! Steve Davis was always my favourite. They didn't come better than him.

@John-tz2tx 3 жыл бұрын

Fred Davis...as if!

@davidgladwin6592 2 жыл бұрын

STEVE DAVIS THE GREATEST SNOOKER PLAYER ON PLANET EARTH IS DISIPLINE WAS EXCELLENT

@jamescampbell6737 Жыл бұрын

Without doubt if Jimmy White had beat Alex Higgins in semi final1982 he would of won final,,That sitter of a black Jimmy missed a rookie player would of got,,Jimmy claimed he rushed it,,well,he seen winning line,,Jimmy has to be ultimate unlucky loser of final in world championship,,was it runner up 5 times???amazing,,times he only needed that one frame having such leads,,I'll rest there, j8m,cvw

@dlamiss 4 ай бұрын

A Reardon, White final would have been very interesting. Reardon would probably have to have been somewhere near his very best to win but im sure his tactical game could have got to Jimmy

@franzherflek4116 4 күн бұрын

6 times runner was jimmy

@egdowney1 11 ай бұрын

Wtf happened

@delmarshall18 3 жыл бұрын

Who the hell is the female over dub who wasn’t privy at the time in 1982,,,!,,,, It’s not good enough,,,/ Pc bollocks as ever in today’s society

@chrishearfield234 2 жыл бұрын

That's Dreary Vera I remember my Dad named her that.

@dannyq29 Жыл бұрын

Vera Selby. She was women's world champion at the time

@cavendish2453 Жыл бұрын

@@chrishearfield234 Who was Vera (the announcer? ) and why did she get called dreary?

@josefserf1926 Жыл бұрын

Vers Selby was great. She recognised talent when she saw it.

@JohnSmith-su3ze 3 күн бұрын

Agreed. Females in sport are such a bore. Women have ruined sport. They're dreadful.

@lknight5579 Жыл бұрын

The standard was so poor compared to modern players.

@johnmc3862 Жыл бұрын

And? You expect a guy from the 80’s to be a fast as Usain Bolt? The clothes were thicker and there were a lot less professionals then. All sports evolve.