Cliff Thorburn interview: Guns, knives and Alex Higgins coming at me with a vodka bottle Canadian snooker legend recalls hustling in the billiard halls of North America, taking on the ‘Hurricane’ and ...
Snooker legend Cliff Thorburn was a real life ‘Fast’ Eddie Felson who was threatened with guns and knives as a billiard room hustler. Before turning pro the 1980 world snooker champion spent 10 years ...