Alex Higgins BBC Documentary - The People's Champion

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  @pricey420 · 11 years ago · pinned

  People can call him whatever they want in youtube comment sections but no one knows your name, no one knows who you are and you have inspired no one. Rip alex great player and changed the game

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  @Mayhemdog · 7 years ago

  After watching this , i really love Ray Reardon , what a true gentleman he is .

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  @Dybbouk · 5 years ago

  One day in 1975 I came back from school to find Alex Hurricane Higgins in our front room slurping scotch. He was already a legend. He had come to my home town to give a demonstration at my father's snooker club. He was accompanied by an attractive red head whom he presented to us as his wife but she wasn't apparently. He also tried to chat up my big sister who was 18 at the time, asking her out for a date. She was very flattered. That evening he was completely sloshed but the more he drank the better he played. My father was a strong amateur player who beat Reardon, Jimmy White and Tony Meo (twice) but the Hurricane cracked into the pack, fluked a red and made a break of 80 plus. At the end of the demo, he asked my father 'What do you think of that?'. 'Bloody marvellous' he replied. My father said that the only thing holding him up was his snooker cue and if he'd taken it away he would have fallen over. After that evening Hurricane had to stay in bed for 2 days so bad was his hangover. His hosts made him some vegetable soup to nurse him better, but apparently he only liked tinned. Heinz soup!! Despite his numerous failings he was a man of great humour and charm.

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  @mickharrison9004 · 5 years ago

  I bumped into Ray reardon on my holiday once in torquay years ago, walking along with his Mrs i shouted over the road hey Ray and he smiled and gave time to talk to us, a very good man a gentleman.

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  @infobeam1902 · 5 years ago

  Tell you what, Dennis Taylor is a massive gentleman!<br>Respect to him for taking the situation like a big man!

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  @deathshead357 · 7 years ago

  In case anyone hasn&apos;t seen it, check out Alex Higgins and Jimmy White playing doubles at 9 ball pool in the Mosconi cup.

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  @theawfulgambler · 3 years ago

  Met Alex at a poker club before he passed. Clearly wasn’t well, but was so cool to meet him. &nbsp;Went behind the bar and served himself so he didn’t have to wait for a drink 😂. &nbsp;RIP.

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  @captpicard6894 · 9 years ago

  Alex Higgins was the reason I got interested in Snooker because of the way he played the game. I still love watching the game even now, so I thank Alex Higgins for giving me a lifelong love of Snooker.

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  @hazelwalsh3269 · 10 days ago

  I met him once in Manchester. He was really lovely and friendly. Such an amazing player! Legend!

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  @boyle972 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I only &nbsp;started watched snooker in 1970s because of this man rip Alex Higgins

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  @jamesmason9925 · 6 years ago

  Forget the baggage ... this man was unbelievable and had a &nbsp;snooker talent that will never ever be matched ... R.I.P. Alex! :)

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  @danielhannah1496 · 9 years ago

  had snooker not had Alex Higgins &nbsp;you could compere watching it to,watching paint dry.He is the most important person ever to pick up a cue ,ever

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