What an amazing shot by Alex @4:05 brilliant. Alex Higgins played great when under pressure. The way he walked around that snooker table was like he’s playing an exhibition match. An amazing player to watch. In my opinion only a handful of players from the 80s Alex Higgins being one of them would have been able to compete in today’s high level of snooker.
The elected brown on a free ball @9.45 was outrageous .. most players would have snookered behind yellow/pink balls ..absolutely incredible courage on this deciding frame in the WC. Alex Higgins the wild man and genius ..and boy the game misses him today.
D Mountjoy was a fine competitor , I remember he has a late surge in the mid to late 80s when he won some big tournaments.. What a frame and tournament for Alex to win .
I was there; sitting up in the middle somewhere. It was our first trip to Sheffield - the first of many - but the most memorable as Alex went on to bear Ray in the final. This was exactly ten years after his first win against John Spencer. Electric atmosphere - fantastic game - oh happy days!
I was at this game in the afternoon , 7 years old with me dad 'n grandad, too scared to get John Williams autograph in the foyer/bar area..... Alex came out, tipped his hat, took his tie off then rattled off a century...... In the presence of a magician..
The free ball brown would not have been even attempted by any other player in history. As for the match ball green... Higgins was quite simply unique and will be forever remembered. Love you always Alex. x
A unique player. Should have won more but played to the crowd on to many occasions. The people's champion without a doubt. A brilliant player and entertainer.r.i.p.
That was an outrageous green by Higgins in the last frame. He seemed to wet his finger and walk up to the table to mark the cloth where he wanted to hit it. Straight in the middle centre at pace. I dont think I have seen anything quite like it in my days . Incredible player
@hamgreen exactly, the shots that alex played in this match are just as good or maybe better than the semi final against white that year. I remember this match so well becouse of the amazing pots alex did. I think this match was maybe alex greatest ever match as in playing ability and at his very best as a player, as he was still 31 here. He was the greatest ever tactical player, and even steve davis said he was the greatest safety player he ever saw and played against. Steve said "A part of his game that is rarely spoke about, but when he was on form i would snooker him then he would get out of it then snooker me back then again and again and your thinking how the hell did he think of that one, and he would come of 3 cushings to snooker me back, it was shots that i had never saw before or since, and being a great billiards player that alex was also is great to have as thats why he could snooker me by coming of another ball or two to get the perfect weight on the shot, becouse when the balls are 9 feet apart its about skill and the weight you put on the cue ball and alex was the best at that, i always felt the under dog when playing safety shots against alex"
I;d completely forgotten about this incredible match - Higgins was brilliant in that last frame but also had the run - potting the red when escaping from a snooker and getting a free ball after Doug so unluckily knocked the black in. Having said that, Doug did have one very good chance to win - I bet he never forgave himself for missing that yellow.
Doug Mountjoy was a great player as well. Of course he made mistakes here and Alex deserved the win. But it’s always a pleasure to watch Doug. Both players made some pretty good shots here; it was a close match.
14:43 When Alex potted the match green I burst into tears because not only was it one of the most beautiful shots played on a snooker, it also confirmed Alex Higgins status as the greatest player ever to grace the green baize
+Flavius Constantius He only started Drinking in the 80's but it never affected his standard of play. The biggest hurdle Alex Higgins faced was not himself but Ray Reardon in the 70's . Ray was too consistent. Just like Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry.
Yes he did achieve that. But Im just thinking if his Lifestyle was more befitting his Professional status , just how many more titles he could've won. Just to briefly mention about a Pro from that era who used to play at a high level was Eddie Charlton, he was in his late 40's. Alex was burned out at 40.
Nigel McKenna It doesn't matter how many titles Alex won, he is still the best player Winning more titles wouldn't make him better If Alex won 5 titles, he would still be the same player
The HURRICANE such a colourful player and could have won more major trophies had he not put so much emphasis on entertaining the crowds. Yes he had his critics but a Glittering career was achieved.
Came from a coal mining family in Wales. That's about as rough and tough as it gets. Beat lung cancer too. Higgins knew better than to give him any shit
@@bramleydragon Cliff could handle Alex when he was drunk but when he had a hangover it was a Belfast Bap to the bridge of the nose and someone was doing a silly walk.
@@petermernagh9991 his potting was better than Ronnie.He made shots Ronnie cant pull off.Ronnie is a different type of genius.Both are geniuses.Higgins shot making and creativity,sullivan positional and consistency and focus.
@@horemopik2152 hahah don't be silly boy.....the pockets are huge in these days in comparison. ..plus the fact all the balls they used to leave on in these days ....have you seen o sullivan play over the years lol....obviously not ....ronnie would wipe the floor with Higgins using only his left hand never mind his right.......ronnie is in a completely different galaxy. ....switch sports m8
‘Hey kid, if I ask you for an orange juice, that means a vodka and orange. If I ask for a vodka and orange, that means a double.’ (Ken Doherty about meeting Alex first time) Here it seems to be vodka and coke..
O'Sullivan is a fantastic player to watch but for me Alex was everything good and bad you didn't know what shot was coming next because most of the time he didn't. Probably wouldn't have been a Rocket but for the Hurricane
@@flloydee You clearly have little understanding of the game. We are talking about different eras so your remark is pointless in the first place, serving only to have a go at the most talented player to pick up a cue. I'd seriously like to see today's players operating to their current level on the old tables with slow cloths and other inconsistencies let alone try and get any cue power with those heavier balls. Alex was inconsistant but the only modern player that could possibly beat him at his best would be O'Sullivan.
I remember this match well. Alex was magic. People always talk about the jimmy white match that year that alex played amazing shots and no wonder, but in this match there are shots that i think were just as great, maybe even better than the semi final match. No player ever would or could beat alex in this form. Try and watch all of this match and you will agree. Or if thats to long then look up on utube alex bests shots from this match? But the thing is there were so many great shots he did that you would miss most of them!
This was alex at his best in this match. I couldnt believe how good he was playing when i watched this in 1982 and the shots he was pulling of were just as great or even better than the semi final that we all know. But theres not many people that have seen this match and if they did they would change there view of how great alex really was. I clearly remember a long pot that was just ridiculisly great, the red was tight against the left hand side cushing and about 3 and a half feet from the left corner pocket and the white was about 7 foot further away from the white and tight against the same cushing and it meant alex would have to go past the middle pocket just to hit it never mind pot it and its a hard tricky shot, but looks strait forward, but the middle pockets stick out by almost half an inch? Not much but enough to make you miss the shot altogether, theres a knack to this shot that any one that plays alot will know what i mean. But alex looked at it for about 7 seconds then got down then hammerd the cue ball right along to pot the red and with such force, wich again makes it harder to pot, but a thought he had to hit it hard to get the white past the middle pocket? I would put it up there in hes best ever 10 pots. Its got to be the hardest shot to pot and with alot of power. But there was so many pots like that in this match, i think this was alex at his best ever. Even if the match went all the way, and what was that brown like, a remember as a young boy being stuck for words when he did that. And under all that pressure? Alex should have won the world title at least 6 times, if he looked after himself and practiced as much as the rest and played for himself and not the crowd, a mean he won the 3 main tournaments by 1983 when it was so hard to win them and other tournaments and was in so many finals a lost count. He should have beat thorburn to win the world title in 1980, he was beating him all the way and playing his best then at the last session he played to the crowd and taking on crazy shots and he lost it or threw it away more like, as thorburn was 3 frames behind to win six in a row to win it. Alex was gutted. But in 1982 he learnerd from 2 years before and won it. But he did throw more away he should have won over the years. He was in the uk final at least 3 times and the benson and hedges at least 3 times, the world title 4 times at least and won it twice. He was the first sportsman i looked up to as a kid.
Doug Mountjoy was a smoker who got lung cancer but survived it. Alex Higgins was a smoker who got throat cancer and it killed him eventually. It was the Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship, sponsored by a tobacco company.
Ronnie, Jimmy, Hendry, Davis, Trump and Williams were and still are great players but for me, Alex was the only genius I've seen on a snooker table. He didn't make many centuries or win as many titles as he should have but he played the most natural, instinctive game I've ever seen. There will never be anyone remotely like him.
clive everton: "moving towards another disappointment in the long list of them that he's had, here in the crucible" - a master of the 'foot in mouth' syndrome : 1:40
To be fair it looked like he was and he had lost in last frame deciders in 77 78 and 79 plus losing 18 16 to thorburn in 80 so had lost a load of close ones
9:45 my god, players who execute unpredictably are usually a fan favorite. Not many are unpredictable from shot to shot. Alex has a vast array of mechanical systems for the vast shots the table offers. These things are not flailing deliveries, Alex can explain them objectively. Very sophisticated. Perhaps the superior way to play if given enough time. The mechanics are skewed purposely where only a few outcomes are possible. If not, its a disaster, but if understood, then the feel of that particular shot, is one of a shove stabbing motion. You just have to trust it and remarkably, its not as daunting as it appears to be. The result is a level piercing trajectory. You cancel out the vertical swoop timing and its negatives associated with the pendulum swing wear slight elbow drop or not, can make or break a shot as well....its just not a disaster if it breaks down. Anyway, my opinion from experience. Some of us dont find a pendulum naturally comfortable. Its the mind. Some are wired differently. Its also not physically easy to never drop the elbow. For many, its very confined and cramped, but still ultimately the best on paper mechanically. But that stab lunge motion, anyone can do that. You dont have to contort dramatically or strain certain extremities. The bridge arm shoulder is make or break for high elbow pendulum. Some feel no strain no matter what they do with the bridge arm. If one can stretch it out as far as possible with no nagging issuses, you got a good chance to go far in this game. That is a fact.
All members of the audience keen players / enthusiasts everyone watching on screen keen players /enthusiasts, is there any need for coments such as "sets him up nicely on the blue "
That idiot Clive Everton was writing Higgins off when the score in this deciding frame was Mountjoy 34 Higgins 0. If Alex knew he would have taken great delight in ramming his words back down his throat, and maybe the cue as well!
erm i think it was a lot more ridiculous at the end when he said "well never see anything more exciting than that" i think there was a certain semi final a week later...
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What an amazing shot by Alex @4:05 brilliant. Alex Higgins played great when under pressure. The way he walked around that snooker table was like he’s playing an exhibition match.
An amazing player to watch. In my opinion only a handful of players from the 80s Alex Higgins being one of them would have been able to compete in today’s high level of snooker.
The elected brown on a free ball @9.45 was outrageous .. most players would have snookered behind yellow/pink balls ..absolutely incredible courage on this deciding frame in the WC. Alex Higgins the wild man and genius ..and boy the game misses him today.
Can’t snooker behind a free ball
Yesss .. very true! .. cannot snooker on freeball thanks for spotting this. Still tremendous brown under pressure
Alex Higgins, Jimmy White, Tony Drago, Stephen Lee, Ronnie O'Sullivan you could watch play all day, naturally gifted ..
Rip Alex thanks for the memories growing up in the 80s 😎🙏🎱
Love you Alex, your were simply beautiful. RIP ❤
D Mountjoy was a fine competitor , I remember he has a late surge in the mid to late 80s when he won some big tournaments.. What a frame and tournament for Alex to win .
I was there; sitting up in the middle somewhere. It was our first trip to Sheffield - the first of many - but the most memorable as Alex went on to bear Ray in the final. This was exactly ten years after his first win against John Spencer. Electric atmosphere - fantastic game - oh happy days!
I was at this game in the afternoon , 7 years old with me dad 'n grandad, too scared to get John Williams autograph in the foyer/bar area..... Alex came out, tipped his hat, took his tie off then rattled off a century...... In the presence of a magician..
Lucifer Sam lucky guy
The free ball brown would not have been even attempted by any other player in history. As for the match ball green... Higgins was quite simply unique and will be forever remembered. Love you always Alex. x
A unique player. Should have won more but played to the crowd on to many occasions. The people's champion without a doubt. A brilliant player and entertainer.r.i.p.
That was an outrageous green by Higgins in the last frame. He seemed to wet his finger and walk up to the table to mark the cloth where he wanted to hit it. Straight in the middle centre at pace. I dont think I have seen anything quite like it in my days . Incredible player
Surely that’s cheating?
Actually, on looking at it again I think he’s just removing a bit of chalk dust.
"you'll never see anything more exciting than that"...
Doug was a decent player but Alex was a Great, the like of which we'll never see again RIP Alex 👑 Snooker Genius
My childhood hero, the people's champion Alex the Hurricane Higgins. RIP Great man!
People keep going on about the Jimmy White clearance, but some of the shots he plays here are breathtaking. That red at 4:13 is ridiculous.
@hamgreen exactly, the shots that alex played in this match are just as good or maybe better than the semi final against white that year. I remember this match so well becouse of the amazing pots alex did. I think this match was maybe alex greatest ever match as in playing ability and at his very best as a player, as he was still 31 here. He was the greatest ever tactical player, and even steve davis said he was the greatest safety player he ever saw and played against. Steve said "A part of his game that is rarely spoke about, but when he was on form i would snooker him then he would get out of it then snooker me back then again and again and your thinking how the hell did he think of that one, and he would come of 3 cushings to snooker me back, it was shots that i had never saw before or since, and being a great billiards player that alex was also is great to have as thats why he could snooker me by coming of another ball or two to get the perfect weight on the shot, becouse when the balls are 9 feet apart its about skill and the weight you put on the cue ball and alex was the best at that, i always felt the under dog when playing safety shots against alex"
“You’ll never see anything more exciting than that.”
Cue Higgins v White WSC 1982 semi final frame 30.
I;d completely forgotten about this incredible match - Higgins was brilliant in that last frame but also had the run - potting the red when escaping from a snooker and getting a free ball after Doug so unluckily knocked the black in.
Having said that, Doug did have one very good chance to win - I bet he never forgave himself for missing that yellow.
ysgol3 it wasn't unlucky, it was a stupid shot to make,,,,,that black was always on
Higgins won 2 matches by the odd frame in 82. Everyone remembers the White match but not many remember Mountjoy pushed him all the way too...
Mountjoy clearly lost his arm before the end.
Great player was Doug still the oldest ranking event winner. Masters winner and world finalist
I do mate! Loved Higgins
UK championship winner too
One good shot on that yellow and history would have been very different
Twitching and chewing, always a mass of energy. I could watch him all day
what coke does to you.
@NewBreed 2.0 He'd beat you playing with one hand tied behind his back.
I forgot about this. Wow Alex was pushed all the way twice in 82. That was the best hairdo he had as well.
Doug Mountjoy was a great player as well. Of course he made mistakes here and Alex deserved the win. But it’s always a pleasure to watch Doug. Both players made some pretty good shots here; it was a close match.
What precision! … And confidently choosing shots that others would refuse.
14:43 When Alex potted the match green I burst into tears because not only was it one of the most beautiful shots played on a snooker, it also confirmed Alex Higgins status as the greatest player ever to grace the green baize
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hugh jarsol Ignoramus
14:43 If you don't cry when you watch this green being potted, then you are emotionally dead and there is no joy in your life
John Smith well said my friend- a legend indeed
Alex Higgins best player lol , John Higgins and Steve Davis were 2x better .. Hendry and Osullivan are 5x better !
That pot on green by Alex was the best shot I'm ever seen
So many magical shots in this frame by Higgins. Alex will always be the greatest.
Without doubt the greatest drunk player of all time!
+Flavius Constantius He only started Drinking in the 80's but it never affected his standard of play. The biggest hurdle Alex Higgins faced was not himself but Ray Reardon in the 70's . Ray was too consistent. Just like Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry.
Nigel McKenna Alex certainly was drinking heavily in the 70's!
...yet he still reached FOUR world finals!
Yes he did achieve that. But Im just thinking if his Lifestyle was more befitting his Professional status , just how many more titles he could've won. Just to briefly mention about a Pro from that era who used to play at a high level was Eddie Charlton, he was in his late 40's. Alex was burned out at 40.
Nigel McKenna It doesn't matter how many titles Alex won, he is still the best player
Winning more titles wouldn't make him better
If Alex won 5 titles, he would still be the same player
No one ever played snooker like Alex Hurricane Higgins and that's what made the Hurricane people's CHAMPION
Alex is the best snooker player in the world. He is a Legend
Alex's potting ability was second to none
The HURRICANE such a colourful player and could have won more major trophies had he not put so much emphasis on entertaining the crowds. Yes he had his critics but a Glittering career was achieved.
I apreciate Higgins and watching these old matches. But boy the level of international snooker has improved a lot.
good old smokey snooker rooms of the 70s and 80s long gone
The slightly blurry VHS-style video gives me the feeling that I'm drunk, & watching the match through a haze of smoke.
Definite enhancement! xD
Fluked red out the snooker amazingly kept him in this tournament
Other people have also played great snooker. But only Alex played like a cat that was hunting prey
Awe, credit to Doug otherwise this final frame decider wouldn't exist.
well done great vid.. alex was the best ever
Alex Higgins is a genius. The peoples champion.
nearly as imaginative as your name, know any more cliches?
fradaja ya Mum
fradaja, your nan is a cliche.
Mountjoy was an elite player also...
not
Mountjoy looks like he could handle himself in a scrap.
Came from a coal mining family in Wales. That's about as rough and tough as it gets. Beat lung cancer too. Higgins knew better than to give him any shit
@David Robinson Yea I loved watching Alex play but I would have never wanted to meet him. I would prefer to have had a beer with Mountjoy.
The hardest snooker player was Terry Griffiths.....he could put anyone to sleep.
@Rex Rampage Cliff Thorburn once decked Alex in a nightclub. One of snookers legendary bust ups.
@@bramleydragon Cliff could handle Alex when he was drunk but when he had a hangover it was a Belfast Bap to the bridge of the nose and someone was doing a silly walk.
Some ballsy shots in this frame
Alex. The best ever... And when the fef could just shout quiet!!!!!!!! With no fuss.
Like there will never be another george best there will never be a player like Alex hurrican Higgins
Well said my friend 👌👍
higgins' potting is remarkable
Yeah, let alone his safety.
Literally the best of all-time. Even better than Ronnie
@@dkizxpt-su3ze don't be ridiculous
@@petermernagh9991 his potting was better than Ronnie.He made shots Ronnie cant pull off.Ronnie is a different type of genius.Both are geniuses.Higgins shot making and creativity,sullivan positional and consistency and focus.
@@horemopik2152 hahah don't be silly boy.....the pockets are huge in these days in comparison. ..plus the fact all the balls they used to leave on in these days ....have you seen o sullivan play over the years lol....obviously not ....ronnie would wipe the floor with Higgins using only his left hand never mind his right.......ronnie is in a completely different galaxy. ....switch sports m8
‘Hey kid, if I ask you for an orange juice, that means a vodka and orange. If I ask for a vodka and orange, that means a double.’ (Ken Doherty about meeting Alex first time) Here it seems to be vodka and coke..
most talented player ever
alex Higgins played to crowd too much to excite but the pots he went for were freakish
O'Sullivan is a fantastic player to watch but for me Alex was everything good and bad you didn't know what shot was coming next because most of the time he didn't. Probably wouldn't have been a Rocket but for the Hurricane
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Steve Davis influenced Ronnie more than Higgins. He recognised at an early age he needed an all round game to win
Higgins would have been slaughtered by a lot of the players out today
@@flloydee You clearly have little understanding of the game.
We are talking about different eras so your remark is pointless in the first place, serving only to have a go at the most talented player to pick up a cue.
I'd seriously like to see today's players operating to their current level on the old tables with slow cloths and other inconsistencies let alone try and get any cue power with those heavier balls. Alex was inconsistant but the only modern player that could possibly beat him at his best would be O'Sullivan.
@@nickpayne4711 Ronnie realised from Davis he had to be interesting.
I remember this match well. Alex was magic. People always talk about the jimmy white match that year that alex played amazing shots and no wonder, but in this match there are shots that i think were just as great, maybe even better than the semi final match. No player ever would or could beat alex in this form. Try and watch all of this match and you will agree. Or if thats to long then look up on utube alex bests shots from this match? But the thing is there were so many great shots he did that you would miss most of them!
Alex had so much style and class sadly wiil never see the likes of him again but you never no
Had very little class with his behaviour but sure had a lot of style
@@amightyatom Alex had lots of class you piece of shit
My god that free ball shot rccket corner pocket
spot on mate the man is a LEGEND.
LEGEND!!!!
Tough crowd, great pink by Mountjoy to split the pack. Total silence
How wonderful it is to see them smoke and drink.
Thanks, where did you find this??
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9:45 attacker, flamboyance was his type of play in his prime
Co-co pops I love him he was awesome.
Commentators curse by Clive saying Alex had lost the match .whoosh the hurricanes away.
Back in the day when you could smoke in any public place
This was alex at his best in this match. I couldnt believe how good he was playing when i watched this in 1982 and the shots he was pulling of were just as great or even better than the semi final that we all know. But theres not many people that have seen this match and if they did they would change there view of how great alex really was. I clearly remember a long pot that was just ridiculisly great, the red was tight against the left hand side cushing and about 3 and a half feet from the left corner pocket and the white was about 7 foot further away from the white and tight against the same cushing and it meant alex would have to go past the middle pocket just to hit it never mind pot it and its a hard tricky shot, but looks strait forward, but the middle pockets stick out by almost half an inch? Not much but enough to make you miss the shot altogether, theres a knack to this shot that any one that plays alot will know what i mean. But alex looked at it for about 7 seconds then got down then hammerd the cue ball right along to pot the red and with such force, wich again makes it harder to pot, but a thought he had to hit it hard to get the white past the middle pocket? I would put it up there in hes best ever 10 pots. Its got to be the hardest shot to pot and with alot of power. But there was so many pots like that in this match, i think this was alex at his best ever. Even if the match went all the way, and what was that brown like, a remember as a young boy being stuck for words when he did that. And under all that pressure? Alex should have won the world title at least 6 times, if he looked after himself and practiced as much as the rest and played for himself and not the crowd, a mean he won the 3 main tournaments by 1983 when it was so hard to win them and other tournaments and was in so many finals a lost count. He should have beat thorburn to win the world title in 1980, he was beating him all the way and playing his best then at the last session he played to the crowd and taking on crazy shots and he lost it or threw it away more like, as thorburn was 3 frames behind to win six in a row to win it. Alex was gutted. But in 1982 he learnerd from 2 years before and won it. But he did throw more away he should have won over the years. He was in the uk final at least 3 times and the benson and hedges at least 3 times, the world title 4 times at least and won it twice. He was the first sportsman i looked up to as a kid.
Higgins was a legend
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Alex amazing😀
Doug Mountjoy was a smoker who got lung cancer but survived it. Alex Higgins was a smoker who got throat cancer and it killed him eventually. It was the Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship, sponsored by a tobacco company.
Tard by name, tard by nature. Higgins didn't die from throat cancer, he beat it. He died of malnutrition.
The cause of death was a combination of malnutrition, pneumonia, tooth decay, and a bronchial condition,
Ronnie, Jimmy, Hendry, Davis, Trump and Williams were and still are great players but for me, Alex was the only genius I've seen on a snooker table. He didn't make many centuries or win as many titles as he should have but he played the most natural, instinctive game I've ever seen. There will never be anyone remotely like him.
The Green at 14:37
Alex... the greatest snooker player of all time.
LOL !
"Still, he hasn't lost yet, Clive."
Translation: Shut yer pie hole, old man.
2 great pots Alex.😎
Lol... Calling Alex... The Irish man... 🤣🤣
Even Clive Everton sounds young
clive everton: "moving towards another disappointment in the long list of them that he's had, here in the crucible" - a master of the 'foot in mouth' syndrome : 1:40
Rex telling him "there's a still a lot of snooker left to be played."
To be fair it looked like he was and he had lost in last frame deciders in 77 78 and 79 plus losing 18 16 to thorburn in 80 so had lost a load of close ones
For a moment I thought I heard Mountjoy kick something off camera after a bad shot.
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That's not coke in the glass, it's Captain Morgan
One of the first matches ever with the new cue extension and he got boos
Hurricane Higgins........the greatest!!!!!!!!!
My old friend doug higgins won world that year
I wonder what Alex was drinking? My guess is scotch and coke.
If Alex had int fluked that red he would of never. Being 1982 world champion
Dean Doherty you see flunked balls in every tournament that wins frames,why single Alex out, instead of the likes of Judd Trump or Ronnie o,Sullivan?
Dean Doherty Also brush up on your spelling.
Your right just saw that shot again it was no fluke
Sorry alex
@@james3rdgen655 Because he’s watching a video of it happening perhaps?
9:45 my god, players who execute unpredictably are usually a fan favorite.
Not many are unpredictable from shot to shot.
Alex has a vast array of mechanical systems for the vast shots the table offers.
These things are not flailing deliveries, Alex can explain them objectively.
Very sophisticated. Perhaps the superior way to play if given enough time.
The mechanics are skewed purposely where only a few outcomes are possible.
If not, its a disaster, but if understood, then the feel of that particular shot, is one of a shove stabbing motion. You just have to trust it and remarkably, its not as daunting as it appears to be.
The result is a level piercing trajectory. You cancel out the vertical swoop timing and its negatives associated with the pendulum swing wear slight elbow drop or not, can make or break a shot as well....its just not a disaster if it breaks down.
Anyway, my opinion from experience. Some of us dont find a pendulum naturally comfortable. Its the mind. Some are wired differently.
Its also not physically easy to never drop the elbow. For many, its very confined and cramped, but still ultimately the best on paper mechanically.
But that stab lunge motion, anyone can do that. You dont have to contort dramatically or strain certain extremities.
The bridge arm shoulder is make or break for high elbow pendulum. Some feel no strain no matter what they do with the bridge arm.
If one can stretch it out as far as possible with no nagging issuses, you got a good chance to go far in this game. That is a fact.
12.54,...what does higgy mumble....????
4:10
All members of the audience keen players / enthusiasts everyone watching on screen keen players /enthusiasts, is there any need for coments such as "sets him up nicely on the blue "
@Bengt Handlebars virgo is by far the worst
I sounds like a field hospital,it must have been smoky in the building,rothmans, Paul malls and chesterfields being lit up.🚬🌬😮💨
All today snooker Player look like have taking lesons from Jose Mourinho
Eddie Charlton vs Tony Knowles being played on the other table
Genuis. Xx
When Snooker players looked smart and not just walking advertising boards. Still it's more money for the poor players I suppose.
Before match fixing and the trendy barnet! Men at work!
Match fixing still went on in these days
harder to notice match fixing when potting wasn't as good and no miss rule
Always has happened but still very rare
6:55 oh...my....gosh
A fluke (which he didn’t acknowledge).
Look in the day they were good but it’s like when you have a go on a PS 1 you forget how things have moved on.
The ref knew well that was a free ball.
At 15.28 does the ref call him jug mount joy😂
14:44
Weird rules back then, im used to potting the yellow, green then the brown
John Yeomans the pink is on the yellow spot
😂
16:06
I could almost smell the cigarette smoke!
Only Ronnie was his equal and a slightly better!but very close White a distant third even with that lovely Wig 👧🧟♀️🧟♂️
That idiot Clive Everton was writing Higgins off when the score in this deciding frame was Mountjoy 34 Higgins 0. If Alex knew he would have taken great delight in ramming his words back down his throat, and maybe the cue as well!
erm i think it was a lot more ridiculous at the end when he said "well never see anything more exciting than that" i think there was a certain semi final a week later...
Doug rushed the last red
Dreadful shot. He had several chances to win this frame and squandered them.
Brilliant pity that snooker in 2021 has no soul or charector just boring players who look like billboards money has spoilt it