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Gods of Snooker, review: a superb look at how a hurricane took snooker from the backstreets to primetime


Alex Higgins in 1983
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As sporting press conferences go, it ranks with Eric Cantona and his seagulls, or Muhammad Ali “making medicine sick”: Alex Higgins, uncharacteristically sober in dress if not in manner, publicly and petulantly retiring from snooker in 1990. 
The Hurricane’s tally of championships may be dwarfed by that of Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry and many others, yet it’s wholly understandable that three-part documentary
Gods of Snooker (BBC Two) would open with the man perhaps most responsible for dragging snooker out of a British Legion Club on the outskirts of Birmingham (where he beat John Spencer in the 1972 World Championship final) to Sheffield’s Crucible and primetime BBC Two. Barry Hearn referred to the two decades that followed Higgins’s win as resembling “Dallas with balls”, but even Pam Ewing couldn’t have dreamt up a story this outlandish. ....

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