Never seen Thierry so happy to win, he is truly one of the all time greats. Barker is a very tough lefty and has played against some of the best in the world.

Sooooooo many lets. Terrible game

Thierry is such a fluid mover is just like hopping here and there and everywhere. The constantly backing commentators made it quite irritating all the time tilting their commentary in powers favors and last of all there were few extremely pathetic decisions by the referees though understandable from the pov of those days

Every shot Thierry plays is so unpredictable as to where it is going that kept Shabana unsettled and on the run most of the times but after the first game Thierry lost his touch and from the third Shabana was mostly in control though he was still busy guessing Thierry's next shot

That was an entertaining match. I couldn’t help but crack up some of the times Gaultier smashed the tin when he had an easily winning shot. Not hitting the tin so much is something Gaultier really improved upon later in his career. The refereeing was pretty poor. Far too many lets. Didn’t set the right tone to make the players clear, which should be done from the beginning of the match. Just give a warning and stroke if necessary, and they’ll clear like rabbits.

It’s great to see these matches, especially when you can see the ball. This must be shortly before Palmer retired. I was fortunate to get to see him play live. One area where the reffing has improved is they used to give lets for anything, whereas now a lot of these would be no lets, which makes for better viewing.

Lincou, what a cheat, looking for every possible way of getting a cheap point!

Joey commenting..

Squash is a horrible game. It makes competitors hate each other, and the umpires as well. Squash is nice to play socially against friends or practice alone on a court for fitness. How do I know? After many decades, and knowing that competitors are not home friends. Many tennis players and athletes etc were frieds.

is there a ball? Or is this just a ghosting match?

Good to find a full John White match here. One of my absolute faves; crisp stroke player,

Superb banshee-like screeching from the victor

Quite many contentious lets to gaultier. He was clear to hit but didn't. In the current rules they'd all have been no lets

Great match, really insightful to hear from the coaches during the match and then see if the players can implement the advice. Giving up the fourth game often portends fifth game defeat in my experience!

Always a treat to see Ramy's wizardry with the racket, I also enjoyed White's crocodile-like tranquility switching into incredible power and creativity. Not such a fan of him hitting the ball out of the court repeatedly, or the slightly breathless commentary.

That was delightful. Palmer always seemed to take soft lets and in this match he looked like he was blocking access whenever he hit something weak as well - still can you blame him when the refs pandered to it? Amazing calmness from 10-6 down in the fifth, his share of the $100k prize fund on the line, Palmer goes straight through to 12-10. Great to see a young(er) John Mozzarella in the chair too :D

Can anyone remember what that head racket the David palmer was called?

Power always was a pr**k. Looking for lets instead of playing through. Excuses...

Little cameo from baby Olivia Blatchford (Clyne) at 0:59:06 who herself just retired a couple weeks ago. Time flies!

Referee makes an error in the score after Shabana wins a point at 4-5 in the first game and no one seems to have picked it up. Big impact on momentum.

Solid hit. Thanks for the vid.

John white not a good sportsman, he can only hit the ball hard

Greg certainly bossed Amr in this encounter; he never really looked stretched. You'd never guess that Amr was world number 1 on this outing.

Nicol, great fitness as usual. Terrible hair; no time for the barber?

Palmer was superb in games 2 and 3 then ran out of gas (he retired not long after). I love his technique on the backhand side lifting topspins then taking volleys off the side wall. Class.

Strokes when there let’s, Lets when there strokes piss poor marking as usual.

Marking was awful.

sry Power, I know you re a great player and that you're way more mature now and changed, but you do come off here as an arrogant jerk. The John McEnroe of squash. Talented as hell, but a mouthtful 😂

Great post. Mind including footage of the ball?

Nice one!

12:21 power wins the rally, power serves, but nicol got the point? Hows that?

Wonderful memories ! Thank you very much 😊

I don't like Terry. He acts like the biggest drama queen when his opponent doesn't flawlessly make room for him, and then audaciously claims anything he possibly can without hesitation

2:05 minute rally at 1:03:48, corner to corner. One of the all time greats.

Jeeez lincou was a fragile little thing wasnt he

Such a great guitar.👏👏🎶

Just Love Palmers technique its so pleasing watching him play. Hes so strong and has such a clear perception of THE game really textbook play but struggling a Little with his heavy frame in the long run.

Fascinating how the game has changed since. Greater expectation on players to maker more effort to get to and play the ball means so many of the Lets that David has asked for would be NL today.

Brilliant channel

Thanks for the upload. Really enjoyed it. Good production too. Amazing dive at 1:06:00 😮

Great match, great swan dive excellent camera work. Nicol retrieving was good and White created lots of options for winning shots and couldn’t capitalize. Thanks for the upload.

A good lesson here is if beachill didn’t keep over hitting the ball and he should have held his shots to stop Ramy moving after squeezing him, in doing this in the last couple of games he would have won this.

What a treat to watch these Egyptian squash champions!

Wow - what a match, thanks! Two of my all-time favourite players

They had some real battles these two, and throwing Gaultier into the mix it was great to watch over the years.

Classic squash by two great players!

It's rare to have two lefties playing each other, great match!!

That was tough for Peter Nicol and Jonathan didn't want to win that way for sure.

Two tall blokes battling it out, you don't see that these days.

A shocker 'no let' decision at the end there, well done however to Peter.