Alex Higgins
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Oct 30, 2026
Dan WebsterHOST
Who shared that recently with you with some hair?
RustyHOST
With Alex Higgins, yeah.
Dan WebsterHOST
Alex Higgins.
Dan WebsterHOST
I mean, you all made Alex Higgins look young and stylish.
Dan WebsterHOST
But I don't know how much of Ali's all these antics we can talk about.
Dan WebsterHOST
I
Marcus BucklandHOST
So he didn't have it easy.
Marcus BucklandHOST
But I, you know, whenever O'Sullivan was playing, I used to love Alex Higgins, actually.
Marcus BucklandHOST
I don't know what is something about those guys who are a little bit rogue.
Marcus BucklandHOST
But if Higgins was playing back in the day, I would always watch Snooker.
Sandro FordHOST
Oh, what am I thinking of? You're thinking, there's another Higgins.
Sandro FordHOST
Hurricane Higgins.
Sandro FordHOST
Yeah.
Sandro FordHOST
Hurricane, yeah.
Dave HendonHOST
He was different.
Dave HendonHOST
He had that kind of... entertaining spirit where it wasn't just about who wins and who loses it was about what's the emotional experience of watching snooker and Alex Higgins certainly exemplified that and Jimmy was cut from the same cloth but what he had that maybe Alex lacked a little bit I mean, Alex had charm, but he could go overboard.
Dave HendonHOST
We know that from the various disciplinary offensives.
Dave HendonHOST
Jimmy always seemed to just about walk the right line of, as Joe said, Joe Johnson said, a bit of an artful dodger, you know, but a lovable rogue kind of thing.
Dave HendonHOST
He won an invitation event in Northern Ireland as well in 1981.
Dave HendonHOST
He was still a teenager.
Dave HendonHOST
But 1982, the Crucible, Alex Higgins, his great friend.
Dave HendonHOST
And they play that semi-final that is remembered, of course, for one frame.
Granger ForsonHOST
And I always think about luck.
Granger ForsonHOST
I think it was Alex Higgins said, you know, people say I'm lucky.
Granger ForsonHOST
But actually, what I find is the more I practice, the luckier I get.
Granger ForsonHOST
So I don't think it's just luck.
Joe LynamHOST
Any anecdotes you can share about kind of obstreperous clients or
Louis CopelandGUEST
troublesome clients? I think one of them would be, it's a long time now at this stage, but Alex Higgins would have been a good pal of my dad.
Louis CopelandGUEST
Always a snooker legend.
Louis CopelandGUEST
Yeah, a long time ago.
Mark WatsonHOST
What an epic week it was in Belfast with stars tumbling early in a very dramatic tournament.
Stephen HendryHOST
Yes, and Karen Wilson managed to lift Alex Higgins' trophy again with an emphatic 9-2 victory over Jack Jones at the Waterfront Hall.
Stephen HendryHOST
It was an incredible tournament, almost all the seeds wiped out early in the week.
Steven HallworthHOST
And we'll be looking ahead to the International Championship in Nanjing where Wu Yize is defending his title.
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Mark WatsonHOST
Obviously, Kyron was the survivor.
Mark WatsonHOST
He ended up very comfortably beating Jack Jones in the final.
Mark WatsonHOST
At the Waterfront Hall, he takes home the £100,000 winner's prize, adding to the fact that he won the Alex Higgins trophy only a couple of years ago, of course.
Mark WatsonHOST
And it was never in doubt, really.
JamieHOST
This isn't as big in North America, but one of the dominant TV sporting events in Britain in the '80s was actually snooker.
JamieHOST
A viewing audience of at least 15 to 18 million people would tune in to watch events like the World Championships and cheer on genuine celebrities like Steve Davis and Alex "Hurricane" Higgins.
JamieHOST
Viewing audiences like that are almost the same as an average Monday Night Football game in the '80s for the entire United States.
JamieHOST
And in the mid '80s, the US population was roughly five times larger than England.
Michaela TabbGUEST
Now, I remember...
Michaela TabbGUEST
I remember watching Alex Higgins.
Michaela TabbGUEST
Yeah.
Michaela TabbGUEST
Was it The World? When he cried and asked for Lauren to be brought out? That's right.
Michaela TabbGUEST
Yeah.
Michaela TabbGUEST
There was another one.
Michaela TabbGUEST
And I remember seeing Alex Higgins and I want to say it's not John Street.
Michaela TabbGUEST
It was John Williams when he had his swept over.
Dave HendonHOST
It was a golden age for the sport.
Dave HendonHOST
There was the wild genius of players like Alex Higgins and Jimmy White, the cunning and charm of players like Ray Reardon and Terry Griffiths, the crisp white suits of Kirk Stevens and the many beers of Bill Wurbenick.
Dave HendonHOST
And when Dennis Taylor defeated Steve Davis on the final black in the 1985 World Championship, I was hooked for life.
Dave HendonHOST
As you probably know, that epic final took place at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in England.
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