Snooker

[Archangel]

Well without a doubt, he should have called someone.

Two things which are fishy for me

1) 200 or 300Euros is a crap amount of money if youre a multi millionaire No 1 Snooker Player. If I wanted to make some extra cash on the side, then I would bet on my own match scores through some mates. £5k bet at 8-1 for the exact score on a match (ie I lost 5-2) is £40K clear and wouldnt raise too much suspicion. To do it for someone else for such a small amount is frankly stupid

2) Hearn. Hearn wants to take over snooker. He's asking for a 51% stake and wants the players to hand it over so he can increase the number of matches they play. Something like this increases the likelihood.

Fishier than Grimsby fish market on a fishing hot day IMO!

it was 300,000 euros, not 300 euros.

Higgins is just a typical greedy oik, imho

[gingerjedi]

I've watched it a few times now, his manager is doing half the talking as if he is interested in the deal and JH certainly doesn't look as if he's under any duress. If his story were true he is effectively saying he has agreed to throw matches to get out of a scary situation, matches he would still need to throw to avoid an even scarier situation.

The court of my opinion finds him guilty as sin.

[TimberWolf]

Shame really, as I was just thinking what a nice fellow Higgins was too, by letting himself be beaten by Steve Davis a few days ago, and afterwards describing him as "the legend". I believed he did it for his respect for Davis, who got soundly thrashed in his next match.

[AtW]

I once got held at gunpoint for five hours in a village on the Tibet/Nepalese border with a group of 8 European trekkers and about 100 other locals. About 20 armed police got everyone into a big circle in the middle of the road and had guns trained on them.

That's not scary - it's too big of a group to kill in one go usually, even in 3rd worlds - the scary would have been if you were sitting in a confy chair in a hotel drinking alcohol whilst being proposed to make a lot of money by playing bad snooker - now that's like!!!

He should have reported it straight away - then his story would have been remotely plausible (he still does not look under duress to me).

[gingerjedi]

Have these two been taking bungs? The standard is bloody woeful compared to just about every masters final I've ever watched.

[TimberWolf]

Have these two been taking bungs? The standard is bloody woeful compared to just about every masters final I've ever watched.

Even the ref is boring. The big Dutch guy is far more entertaining, especially when he tells the crowd off or cracks a joke that everyone has to laugh at.

[MarillionFan]

Worst final ever. Ray Reirdon was in the crowd shaking his head in disbelief.

Woeful

[AtW]

Worst final ever. Ray Reirdon was in the crowd shaking his head in disbelief.
Woeful

Some good bets were probably won though