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Re: Pink Ball’s Top 50 Iconic Snooker Players of All Time

Postby HustleKing

SnookerEd25 wrote:Cliff Wilson.

Its a no-brainer :hatoff:


The actual question itself is quite difficult when being unbiased.

But it is a no brainer that Pink will be BIASED and pick Jimmy as No. 1 :roll:

Re: Pink Ball’s Top 50 Iconic Snooker Players of All Time

Postby Pink Ball

45. Neal Foulds
His strong career came to something of a tragic end, and it remains unclear how much of a bearing this has had on refusal to even play shots as part of Eurosport’s coverage. Today he’s a likeable, erudite and uncompromising commentator and pundit.
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Re: Pink Ball’s Top 50 Iconic Snooker Players of All Time

Postby Pink Ball

42. Silvino Francisco
A notorious figure – perhaps better remembered for his shameful humiliation of Kirk Stevens after the 1985 British Open Final than he is for actually winning that prestigious tournament. His carry-on became all the harder to take when his own life revealed itself to be a shambles.

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41. Alan McManus
Another very good player who rarely set the world alight, Alan McManus has soared up this list by becoming one of the game’s most-respected pundits and commentators. He has a genuine love for snooker, and for that alone many felt he probably deserved his stunning run to the World semi-final in 2016

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39. Quinten Hann
When Clive Everton calls you a disgrace, you’re a disgrace. Quinten Hann was only a middling player in comparison to most on this list, but he ranks highly on controversy alone. A mammoth ban in relation to match-fixing in 2005 was the nadir of a colourful and often distasteful career.

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38. Stephen Maguire
One of the sport’s major underachievers, he jumped into the limelight with an excellent 2004, topped off by a genuinely stunning win at the UK Championship. He has never delivered on his awesome natural ability, but he has always been very good, and he’s no mean attention-grabber off the table either.

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37. Mark Allen
Another pantomime villain, Allen has become one of the top love-him-or-hate-him characters in the sport. He is always opinionated, often brash, never dull – and a very good player to boot. He is also, arguably, one of the best players never to win the World Championship, and time is ticking for the Antrim man on that front.

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36. Doug Mountjoy
A much-loved player who even showed up to the Crucible one year just a few weeks before having a lung removed. Doug Mountjoy was always a very good player, but his fairytale year in 1989 solidified his career as one of the game’s most fondly remembered.

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35. Stuart Bingham
Somewhat notorious in his own right, Stuart Bingham is, thankfully, best known for what he has done on the table. His remarkable turnaround from being a journeyman par-excellence to 2015 World Champion will forever secure his place in snooker history.

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34. Graeme Dott
It’s a bit ironic that someone who used to get upset over not getting the attention his game deserved ranks quite highly now in terms of the game’s most iconic players. Dott has had a long and sometimes distinguished career, and while the feistiness that made him one of the game’s ‘very goods’ has diminished over the past decade, when you paired it with his underrated skills, he was a match – on his day – for anyone.

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33. Matthew Stevens
Not as good as Dott but, let’s face it, he remains more iconic. He will be best-remembered, sadly, as arguably the game’s biggest underachiever, despite having a fairly fantastic record in snooker’s two biggest ranking events. When he burst onto the scene, he brought a few female admirers into the game as well – not too many players can boast that – and his chaotic personal life has only solidified his place on this list.

Re: Pink Ball’s Top 50 Iconic Snooker Players of All Time

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32. James Wattana
It’s hard to measure Wattana’s impact from this side of the world, but he was the first top Asian player, and Thailand’s presence on the tour is still unusually large for a non-English speaking country. That’s down in no small part to Wattana’s influence. He never became the great player that many expected he would be, but he did set the game’s Asian invasion in motion.

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31. Joe Johnson
Comfortably the worst player to win the World Championship – but that’s not to say he didn’t deserve to win the tournament in 1986. He came into the event with a dreadful Crucible record, a lot of kids to feed, and not a lot of money with which to do that.
He left as a World Champion.
Johnson’s fairytale win would be enough to secure his place on this list, but his affable presence on Eurosport has made him even more popular.

Re: Pink Ball’s Top 50 Iconic Snooker Players of All Time

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30. Willie Thorne
Brash, talented, insecure and very hard to dislike – no matter how hard he tried to make us not like him.
Willie Thorne’s bald head and lush moustache made him stand out more from the crowd than his game ever did, but he was no bad player all the same. A chronic addiction to gambling overshadowed his career and the rest of his personal life, but whatever about that, Thorne’s contribution to snooker, on and off the table, only strengthened his position as one of game’s most iconic figures.