Re: Classic Snooker
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Badsnookerplayer - Posts: 26554
- Joined: 05 February 2017
- Snooker Idol: Bill Werbeniuk
jopesalmi wrote:Check out my new snooker videos! Some great shots from 80's.
Classic Snooker-series:
John Virgo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKGQwW_cSv0&t=3s
jopesalmi wrote:Ronnie almost forgets to pot the black! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdxvQ9bjXog
TheSaviour wrote:...
Mark Selby certainly is the man who should be mentioned here. I´ve never before heard a roar as loud as it at times it is when the crowds are learning that he is walking in the venue. And that´s all well deserved.
I have started to use the Instagram now also! Or at least singed up. You never know if you will need something. I am done with all the silly joking. No-one never were amused or anything. I am just a really suprised some people here have started to use that I love the Saviour - mention. I Susanne.... ?
jopesalmi wrote:Alex Higgins' great 118 break from 1982 WC Final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3CBEdvfp2k
Badsnookerplayer wrote:jopesalmi wrote:Alex Higgins' great 118 break from 1982 WC Final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3CBEdvfp2k
Thanks Jope - your best vid yet. You are building a following!
I had never seen this break but enjoyed every second of that.
Watching Higgins at the table is a trip of boundless variations. He paints a vital picture of anger, beauty and human frailty with every step. Each sinew in his fragile body is fighting ferociously with the tics in his mind. Time and again, he is found out - human judgement pulled sharply into cold,mathematical focus on the green rectangle of truth. From hopeless positions he conjures a breathless escape and the crowd love him. But he will never love them as much, and that is understood; an unwritten contract. He is not there for you, you are there to admire him. And how we did.
Higgins at the table is art. Not fine art but raw, visceral, dangerous art the like of which we are allowed to view but never own. It is ephemeral, floating in the air in front of us but try to catch it - to possess it - and buck you, it is gone and will never return.
So, here's to you Alex as the last of the night's poison passes my lips. Here's to you, you vodka swilling, angst filled, fedora wearing, impossible break building, lend us a tenner, snake hiss in your plantpot, genius of a human being.
Viva the Hurricane..
Dan-cat wrote:Badsnookerplayer wrote:jopesalmi wrote:Alex Higgins' great 118 break from 1982 WC Final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3CBEdvfp2k
Thanks Jope - your best vid yet. You are building a following!
I had never seen this break but enjoyed every second of that.
Watching Higgins at the table is a trip of boundless variations. He paints a vital picture of anger, beauty and human frailty with every step. Each sinew in his fragile body is fighting ferociously with the tics in his mind. Time and again, he is found out - human judgement pulled sharply into cold,mathematical focus on the green rectangle of truth. From hopeless positions he conjures a breathless escape and the crowd love him. But he will never love them as much, and that is understood; an unwritten contract. He is not there for you, you are there to admire him. And how we did.
Higgins at the table is art. Not fine art but raw, visceral, dangerous art the like of which we are allowed to view but never own. It is ephemeral, floating in the air in front of us but try to catch it - to possess it - and buck you, it is gone and will never return.
So, here's to you Alex as the last of the night's poison passes my lips. Here's to you, you vodka swilling, angst filled, fedora wearing, impossible break building, lend us a tenner, snake hiss in your plantpot, genius of a human being.
Viva the Hurricane..
This is a joyously written Baddies-been-at-the-sauce late-night paean to the one without whom I doubt we'd be even talking on this forum.[/i][/b]