Video - Miscellaneous

[Scaramouche]

1980 World Championship - Alex Higgins vs Steve Davis
Frame 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKpZtEPoiag
Frame 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRgx-DA-bCg

1979 World Championship
Fred Davis vs Kirk Stevens - Frame 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebtWYhfvcAI

Bill Werbeniuk vs John Virgo - Frame 18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYIVQYbCxk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGtOfGZVB5s

1981 World Championship - Ray Reardon vs Doug Mountjoy - Frame 12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FygcReJT3I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-2eyYxh6KU

1982 World Championship - Jimmy White vs Kirk Stevens - Frame 12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vztuyzU2DGA

1996 Masters - Ronnie O'Sullivan vs Nigel Bond - Frame 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgxWd0djt5I

2001 World ? Ronnie O'Sullivan vs John Higgins - Frame 32
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOFziNwwp1U

Restricting Snooker In Hong Kong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLSl0GA44TQ

???? Nations Cup - John Higgins vs Dennis Taylor - Frame 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh43QBar1ws

???? Masters - Ken Doherty vs Matthew Stevens - Frame 15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb9fcfv8nv4

???? Irish Masters - John Higgins vs Jimmy White - Frame 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MpXRMOsXIM

???? World Championship - Ronnie O'Sullivan vs Joe Swail - Frame 18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwacuuohgRk

 

[Boro Nut]

OMG. Ted Lowe commentating of a Fred Davis match. Talk about memory lane. I don't actually have any recall of Fred ever winning a match - I'm sure he did - but this was in the day of limited professionals, and I think in those days former champions (Fred was a multiple world champ) qualified to play by right, like in golf, before ranking points and qualifiers became the sole criteria. It was in the days when we thought old blokes were the best snooker players, basically because all the snooker players were old blokes. How wrong we were.

Among Fred's claims to fame is being the only player ever to beat brother Joe fair and square in a bona-fide snooker match. Joe would never concede that his only other recorded defeat counted, when he was nobbled by having his cue stolen immediately before playing, only for it to turn up immediately afterwards.

Fred has the classic snooker stance that I was taught, leading more with the left than the current square-on style. And letting the white ball do all the work too, instead of forcing it through on practically every shot. Get on the natural angle line for the next shot and stay there was the dictum. How wrong we were.

Boro Nut