Sonny wrote:You're an Alex Higgins fan witz - Higgins did many things breaking the law and yet when he was on the table that's all that mattered: his ability as a snooker player. Higgins is a victim of his own brilliance. The better he plays, the more he puts himself up there for those who won't forget his blip. The more he wins, the more some people hate him. It's quite sad really.
its quite funny in a way how the DJ issue has split the snooker masses. Whereas I used to respect DJ for his snooker ability, I had commented long before the mafia story was brought to us by those lovely NotW people, that DJ was very much the bread-head type.
I am still finding it quite amazing how some will jump to his defence purely on the back of his playing ability and the fact that they do no want a great champ to be flawed. Well - fact is he is majorly flawed and its been captured, he was caught and it was covered up.
His venture into snooker promotion was not some charitable gesture to the rest of the world with little access to snooker ..... The world series which took us to those lovely places like Warsaw and Jersey was nothing more than an idea to make money.
Then we get the sting where what is the crux of the matter.................yep you guessed right......MONEY (261 big ones).
So the defenders keep defending, and those without rose tinted specs on keep offering some reality.