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He couldn’t play in direct sunlight 🦇🤣😎

He was liked but he was nowhere near as popular as Higgins.

@@growlerthe2nd712 😆

I agree, probably the greatest all round player, but I think age and waning desire were probably his only weak link in 1982, aged 49/50.

He denied it???

@@glencampbell1969 yes initially, but to be fair having watched the replay he could see that he had fouled the red and apologised. can't be fairer than that.

@@kennethtalbott2233 so without the replay he’d have lied….

@@glencampbell1969 Yep. Higgins was a cheat. He would have felt that red move, any snooker player knows this.

Absolutely right you are such a pity Alex was inconsistent otherwise we would have been treated to some great snooker

This was Alex in his prime. The only pity was that his addiction to booze and cigarettes (80 a day) led to his rapid decline later in life.

Pissed usually 😂

@@mehfoozrazzaq1311 We were treated to some great snooker.

No problem, I've had a few people making stupid comments but they are just wasting their time really!

It allways happens .dont bother . Out 100 you allways .get 25% who Dont enjoy what 75% do. Think of Majority.👍

Shame the camera switched away after the pink. We never got to see the white ball stop.

Yes in the days long before the red button or Eurosport a lot of the snooker wasn't shown live. On Wednesday evenings when Sportsnight was on one was lucky sometimes to see 30 minutes of an evening sessions snooker!

Higgins did make a 155 at some point. Is this the story when he thrashed thorne 10 - 0 in about an hour or something hilarious?

Did Higgins cheat in that match too?

Ray is still with us!

@@digeme69 yes....Ray is a tough cookie and floating around....breed em tough in wales.

"Gunslinger" ...Good way to describe Alex Higgins...👍

@@seancyco9446 'Swashbuckler'

Yes I do have some stuff but it's a question of time really, started uploading last year when I had more time on my hands.

Higgins threw that one away, should never have lost that match to Griffiths. He never beat Griffiths over a long match, but he had his chance here, he drank too heavily in the final and played a ridiculous shot on the black in the last frame, simply went for too much, a dramatic win, but missed and handed the crown to Griffiths.

Remember it well. Watched the final with my Grandad. He told me about the old billiard players and how Joe Davis excelled at billiards and snooker.

Utter nonsense. Of course they can. Where do people get this tripe from?

Unfortunately no, i don't have the final

Well I didn't at the time but I do now!

Yes, you can see that John Smythe was clearly shaken and upset. Reardon didn't think much of Higgins attitude either. Always accept the referees decision.

@@davidkemble3419 yeah you can see reardon was not happy about that.higgins was no gentelman but ray was

Get yourself down to B&Q and buy a set of 15ft ladders.....and get over it!

Not quite right there ,if you touch a ball with the tip of the cue you would feel it ,if the main shaft of the cue just grazes a ball you are cueing over it ,it would be hard to feel it .I doubt Alex felt anything from where he touched the red ,but looking at the replay he admitted he was wrong so fair play to him this time .Recently I have seen Jimmy White and Mark Allen feather the cue ball and not call a foul on themselves ,in that situation there is no way you wouldn’t feel it ,that is tantamount to cheating and poor sportsmanship .

Whatever you think, Alex clearly didn't think he'd touched the ball(which he had). Certainly he was a capable of very unpleasant behavior at times but his demeanour here is obviously someone who genuinely although incorrectly thinks he's been wronged. Despite many comments on here Alex did call fouls on himself on several occassions when the referee hadn't seen a foul. Alex had many flaws but cheating in this manor was never one of them. You can generally tell the difference between someone trying to lie and someone who genuinely believes they are right. Alex was pretty easy to read and no question here he was mistaken and not cheating. It is totally possible to not feel a contact when as in this case Alex was concentrating on not catching the red with his cue tip and caught the red with the side of his hand.

Also he did accept that the ref was right, he did try and justify his behavior to a degree by saying he initially didn't see the red move on the replay but that was more an embarrassing attempt to justify his earlier behavior which is wrong but he clearly conceded that he was in the wrong. His whole demeanour throughout is of someone who was wrong rather than cheating.

@@markhiggins8315 it was cheating though as he dident call the foil on himself

@@markhiggins8315 I watched higgins all my life .this is nothing unusual.hr had that cheating nature.and rather nasty too at times to aponiants and refs .

@@ianwilliamson2980 I wish you no disrespect but I find your comment a little difficult to read and without logic. The point is for the reasons I pointed out previously Alex obviously didn't realise that he'd brushed the red ball and he genuinely thought that the referee had made a mistake. This is not cheating, it is being mistaken. He could fairly be criticised for his reaction but it was not an attempt to deceive. As I also mentioned previously Alex called a foul on himself on several occasions in tournaments when the referee had not noticed and although a far from perfect individual he was not trying to cheat here. After seeing the replay he still found it hard to see any movement in the red ball and if you watch it yourself honestly it is increadibly hard to see it move but Alex apologised and accepted that he was wrong. There is a huge difference between being wrong and cheating.