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I don’t believe that you need to be of a certain age to enjoy Gods of Snooker (available on iPlayer). My hunch is that even people who weren’t there at the time will have found themselves strangely bewitched by the sight of so many rayon-clad bottoms pointing ever skywards (the table-side contortions of the average Eighties snooker star would bring to mind Nijinsky about to

Doug Mountjoy, Welsh former miner turned star of the late 1970s snooker circuit – obituary He beat Ray Reardon in the final of the 1977 Masters then went on to win Pot Black, the UK Championship and the Irish Masters Doug Mountjoy in action at the  Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 1980s Credit: David Muscroft/Shutterstock Doug Mountjoy, who has died aged 78, was a snooker champion whose shot-making skills and liking for colourful ruffled shirts became familiar to millions of television viewers during the 1970s and 1980s, as the BBC’s coverage of the game transformed its profile and turned it...

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