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‘Snooker was bigger than football’: Tales from the sport’s golden age

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The 1985 World Championship final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor is usually seen as the high watermark.

The emergence of Alex Hurricane’ Higgins , and his fairytale Worlds win on debut in 1972 , jolted the sport into modernity.

Colour TV helped, then the BBC ’s Pot Black competition which launched in 1969 as a means to promote the new technology.

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