Instead, he was willing his old friend on to make the first 147 break in World Snooker Championship history. It was April 23, ...

It was the BBC presenter David Vine who said that Hollywood should have instead come to Cliff Thorburn when they cast Paul Newman as ‘Fast Eddie’ in The Color of Money.

CLIFF THORBURN has pulled back the curtain on the time Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins attacked him with a vodka bottle. Snooker’s oldest living Crucible champion was playing poker with Higgins and a friend ...

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CLIFF THORBURN has pulled back the curtain on the time Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins attacked him with a vodka bottle. Thorburn, 78, told The Telegraph that the Hurricane had gone £50 down and tried to ...