The Rack Pack - BBC 2 - 4:30 EDT - Friday April 30 2016

Awesome movie. Just watched it again last weekend

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I've been in Alex Higgins' company on a few occasions and played pool with him once or twice. He was a great snooker player and one hell of a character, but he had a nasty streak and could be a damned nuisance at times.
 
Rubik's Cube said:
I've been in Alex Higgins' company on a few occasions and played pool with him once or twice. He was a great snooker player and one hell of a character, but he had a nasty streak and could be a damned nuisance at times.
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http://snookerscene.blogspot.ca/2011/07/snookers-biggest-bust-ups.html

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).
 
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