Snooker's bad boys : the feuds, fist fights and fixes
Bozeat, Matt2025
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'Snooker's Bad Boys' takes us back to a time when snooker players were better paid than footballers and lived like rock stars. It looks at the feuds, fist fights, fixes and playboys who put the sport on the front and back pages of the national press - as told by those who were there. The behaviour of some players during the sport's 1980s peak was so outrageous there were those who feared for its future. The truth was the public always wanted to know what Alex Higgins, Jimmy White and other bad boys of the green baize might do next. Higgins was the original hellraiser and 'Snooker's Bad Boys' features exclusive eyewitness accounts of his rise and fall, along with the troubles and triumphs of Jimmy White, Ronnie O'Sullivan and many other rogues who drank, gambled, partied and potted their way into the hearts of millions - from the sport's peak years in the 1980s up to the present day.
Main title:
Snooker's bad boys : the feuds, fist fights and fixes / Matt Bozeat.
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Imprint:
Worthing : Pitch Publishing, 2025.
Collation:
208 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781836802204 (pbk)
Dewey class:
794.7350922794.735092
Language:
English
Subject:
Snooker -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centurySnooker -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st centurySnooker -- Social aspects -- Great BritainSnooker players -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th centurySnooker players -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 21st centuryHobbies and GamesIndoor gamesSnooker, billiards, pool
BRN:
8809091