Alex "The Hurricane" Higgins

You're all welcome. Glad I found it. My friend who is ten years older than me and had spent several years in England in the 70s would always go on and on about Alex Higgins whenever we played pool in the late 80s. I was like ok great, Alex Higgins.

Now I know WHY he was so fascinated with Higgins.

It's a tragic story in a lot of ways. But on the other hand this kid with no real future in front of him was able to parlay an amazing talent for the game into stardom and two world championships. Anyone who says it's impossible to play world class snooker with poor form only needs to be forced to sit and watch Alex Higgins videos Clockwork Orange style until they relent. It just goes to prove that there is no ONE WAY to do things. Not then and not now.
 
From the archives :D

From Snooker Scene blog
ALEX HIGGINS V CLIFF THORBURN
These two enjoyed a love-hate relationship in that each loved to hate the other. ‘You’re a Canadian c*** and you can’t f***ing play, either,’ was one cheery Higgins greeting when they found themselves in the same bar. At this, Thorburn, hard as nails on and off the table, floored the Belfast man with a well aimed punch.

Thorburn recalled that this fight was broken up by others and a reconciliation attempted. ‘Eventually, as we went to shake hands, I kicked him right in the nuts,’ he said.

After losing to Thorburn in the 1986 Scottish Masters final, the clean-living Higgins alleged the Canadian had been helped by ‘little bags of white powder’ (although Thorburn was fined and suspended for cocaine use in 1988).

I'm No Angel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPrGe7GdXhE

http://www.economist.com/node/167402...TOKEN=56962061

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/othe...er/2979777.stm

http://snookerscene.blogspot.ca/2012...-years-on.html
 
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