"A Giant Fluke"?
by Daniel Marner on Monday, April 4, 2011 at 6:56pm ·
Snooker © The Fine Art Method.
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Dear Mr Cosicave and Glynut.
How are you lads! Ronnie O was the first player ever to demand that the game of snooker needed entertainment or the lovely game will die.
Ronnie of course meant the Pro’ game as the “Game with a pint” will never die. About Alex Higgins! He brought excitement and controversy to the game, not always entertainment.
The bold Alex sadly believed in his own “Hype” and lived for many years on that wonderful break in fifty two against Jimmy White.
For the record lads that break was entertaining through the excitement created by a sequence of wonderful shots that consistently failed as the cue ball went astray.
That Video or clip by Alex will be played this year 20-11 again at the Crucible and possible in forty years time as a kind of snooker novelty but not as a branch of “Snooker Technique”.
I can’t remember how many shots Alex played but the clip will take pride of place in future coaching schools as comparisons and how NOT to “Break build”.
Please do not misunderstand lads! I followed Alex in the eighties on tours with Jimmy White and Tony Knowles and Alex was always entertaining with or without the “hat”.
No one will ever know how that wonder break was manufactured but to the future coaches and teachers of “Positional Play” in snooker it will be “Analysed” correctly as the continuous failure of finding the “Correct Addresses” and “Guessing” wrongly the pace of the strike.
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