@MC G-Tek 528299 wrote:
Best thing seen at the snooker in about 25 years!
the TV industry loved it in the 1970s as it helped sell colour television sets (these weren’t that common until the 1980s!). Its ironic that it got a lot of airtime as a sport as its main purpose was to encourage men to sit around watching TV and to smoke cigarettes.
@General Lighting 528351 wrote:
the TV industry loved it in the 1970s as it helped sell colour television sets (these weren’t that common until the 1980s!). Its ironic that it got a lot of airtime as a sport as its main purpose was to encourage men to sit around watching TV and to smoke cigarettes.
I used to love watching it as a kid mate, the likes of Hurricane Higgins, Jimmy White, Big Bill Werbeniuk and his beer for ‘medicinal purposes’, Dennis Taylor’s glasses and even Steve ‘Interesting’ Davis! They were proper charcters man.
Some years back, I actually got asked for coke by a very famous snooker player (won’t say who for their sake, but when I hear that they’ve popped their clogs, I’ll return to this thread to reveal all…).
