Re: The best Higgins?
thetubberlad wrote:Witz78 wrote:Alex wins just based on these infamous comments
"Well Chaps, I would like to announce my retirement from professional snooker … I don't want to be part of a cartel. I don't want to be part of a game where there are slush funds for everybody… If Derek Jameson, for instance, can leave the News of the World and go to Sky TV there has to be a place for me in this life… There are an awful lot of people running about this world who put their kids through certain schools, feeder schools, grammar schools, and you get absolute tossers doing jobs for exorbitant money, well, I don't really want to be part of it… You can shove snooker up your jacksie, I'm not playing no more and it's not sour grapes, nothing, it's the truth … I wish Cecil Parkinson and Maggie Thatcher would do a probe into snooker, then we would find out the real truth. The Hurricane doesn't want to be part of this tripe, no disrespect to northern people because I like tripe… I'm not going to break the cue because I like the cue, but it is a corrupt game… Rock on Tommy…"
I thought he cut a really pathetic figure to be honest with that rant... as much as I liked Alex
the pathetic ones were Colin Randle, Rex Williams and the rest of the chinless wonders running the show back then
Higgins spoke a lot of sense in that interview and everyone from Everton to Davis conceded that there were undertones of truth in what Alex aluded to and this probably contributed to the authorities throwing the book at Alex more than he deserved.
Alex gets a year ban for a jab to the ribs of one guy
John only gets half a year for a slap in the face to all of snooker
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