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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cliff Thorburn, 78, is snooker’s oldest living world champion - Belinda Jiao It was the BBC presenter David Vine who said that ...

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Canadian snooker legend recalls hustling in the billiard halls of North America, taking on the ‘Hurricane’ and that historic ...

And it does not take long in Thorburn’s company to appreciate how two years inside an orphanage before a decade-long apprenticeship in the billiard halls of North America left him equipped for dealing ...