ALEX HIGGINS SHOWS HIS TALENT UNSEEN FOOTAGE

[@richardwalker1880]

The Hurricane made snooker worth watching Alex Hurricane Higgins will always be the people's CHAMPION he is still my favourite player and my hero also Jimmy White hurricane and Jimmy were Great friends and mates Hurricane wasn't looked after like Steve Davies and the rest of the snooker player s Hurricane your still THEE BEST

[@chrisevans5259]

Higgins hit the snooker scene in late 60s early 70s, and was like a breath of fresh air..with his high tempo style, and his swashbuckling spontaneous approach ,...the snooker world had never seen anything like him,..players of the time were slow careful and methodical,...where as Higgins was like a blur arround the table,...a nervous, twitching robust and dynamic genius fizzing balls all around the baize, with speed and energy......as an incredible shot maker,.. a master of his trade.......the word genius is banded around to freely nowadays.....but Higgins was just that,....a total natural, who played with heart and passion,..and on his day ...unbeatable.....a flawed genius, yes....but a truly great player

[@arnie8604]

Alex and Georgie boy......2 flawed geniuses from Belfast.....thank you for the memories.

[@DuffReagan]

"Who would want to be like Eddie Charlton! " That made me laugh.

[@johntate5722]

Thanks for uploading!!

[@declanmills]

Alex's telephone voice. Still, a genius. And as said here, he was a tremendous safety player.

[@PatrickCawley]

Thanks, Belfast Jack for uploading this rare and wonderful footage. I had not seen this before and I'm a fan of the Hurracain since even before he first became World champion in '72. Anyway, it was a pleasure to watch Alex in this and see him so relaxed and potting like a demon.

[@liverpix]

Nice find. I remember Higgins and Charlton playing on the same side in a doubles match once. They were arguing with each other throughout the match.

[@leebeardshall2888]

I remember that.

[@ryanzeelee]

The Hurricane in his prime! Many thanks for this fantastic upload.

[@carrjohn2427]

What can you say about this great man all I can think of is THANK YOU.

[@joemoonblue]

really glad you uploaded this jack

[@connie7549]

THE BEST THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD NUMBER ONE SNOOKER,ALEX HIGGINS

[@TheMrBennito]

A very relaxed and thoughtful Alex, should have been part of the present generation, he would teach them.

[@SuspenduAuGaffa]

Wow, really interesting to see Alex back then. He seems to be holding his accent back here, probably for the benefit of the English interviewer.

[@davidhenrywall8619]

Great player one of the best, a legend

[@joemoonblue]

thanks for this

[@NoosaHeads]

I do believe that he was the most naturally gifted player in the entire history of snooker (and that means better than Joe Davis, Steve Davis, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Judd Trump etc etc). Higgins was reckless at times - but that's why we went to see him. He was brilliantly entertaining. Players like Terry Griffith, Ray Reardon and Cliff Thorburn were so superbly tactical but not as exciting to watch. Sometimes, i want to see a slow, tactical match and try and "think along" with the player and that's when you **don't** want to watch Alex Higgins... Higgins was hugely instrumental in making snooker such a widespread sport. (Steve Davis too, because he was the embodiment of cool, collected, skilled, elegant and calculating). We, the public, have been so privileged to see players of this skill level.

[@StewartNicolasBILLYCONNOLLY]

Alex was a genius. He was made famous by the media for his "outrageous" behavior. However, the part that the idiot media missed was that there has never been - before or since - a snooker player of his quality.

[@CrypticSquirrel]

There's this little unknown guy new on the scene; Ronnie O'Frickin Sullivan. Your comment is void.

[@stinsmeister]

+Danny O'Reilly there simply is noone like alex higgins, noone will get a crowd going like he did.

[@mattjay3710]

Ronnie grew up watching both Davies and Higgins and became arguably the perfect hybrid of perfect consistent cueing and eccentric exciting shot making. Higgins was so raw though he was electrifying to watch when he was on fire. No other player will ever be like him.

[@FIVE-0-APOCALYPTO]

Well said Matt. I like this man named Mr. Alex Higgins and im glad there are these videos to watch.

[@davidgladwin6592]

THE BLUE HE POTTED IS THE GREATEST POT EVER IN ALL SNOOKER HISTORY WOW

[@npc3po301]

For me it was the long red after that blue

[@brendanhawkins1755]

If he didn't play to the crowd, he would of won four world championship. He was the best of that time. Still won the triple crown

[@cjns5253]

2 world titles 2 masters titles and 1 uk title not to bad

[@demoney9540]

God bless.. 1 of very few legendary snooker characters that there's ever been....🙏💙🙏

[@paulmoloney4160]

What a legend and the best in the world and sadly missed

[@doctorsocrates4413]

The most entertaining player ever...RIP hurricane.x

[@Briangibson7825]

Alex is the ONLY Australian sounding Irishman i have ever heard!

[@pdjhh]

I was just thinking he sounded like that then I saw your comment!

[@brianmcgovern6207]

It's almost like he didn't like his Belfast accent

[@Briangibson7825]

@@brianmcgovern6207 Agreed!

[@krmoore1000]

alex, i loved watching you mate. watched you on tv recently. thanks for all those years. rest in peace mate. x

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

+kenny moore Alex Higgins is not that good compared to Ronnie O'Sullivan. Watch Ronnie instead and you will see true genius.

[@miketravis6149]

+heelfan1234 Ronnie is without doubt the most gifted player in game of snooker. However, Alex Higgins made a working men`s club game interesting and Ronnie looked up to him. Maybe if there had been no Alex there would have been no Ronnie. Just for the record I am a big fan of both.

[@krmoore1000]

mike travis very nice reply mike, thank you. the problem i have with ronnie is that sometimes he cannot be bothered, where as alex never failed to entertain. witch ronnie have we got today lol

[@miketravis6149]

Good point.

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

kenny moore mike travis Alex was hyped as the people's champion but he also brought the game into disrespect. I believe Snooker would still have grown massively without Alex- the invention of colour TV was important for the game, and it was the Golden Age of TV, when huge viewing figures were relatively easy to come by.

[@jonkheere1]

At 3.20 The interviewer asked Alex about His safety play. He obviously didn't know that although He was famed for His mercurial potting ability,Alex was one of the greatest safety players the World had ever seen....!

[@Valentina-cl2kn]

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[@jaynestag95]

Down to earth, with an amazing talent, personality, real focus.❤

[@nigefal]

Agree with the first one, maybe the second, but definitely not the third!

[@towerpower6867]

Great player

[@georgespence7916]

Alex Higgins put the crown on snooker

[@mariasmith9233]

That's right Alex, you can only get those kind of shots around about that many times out of ten, sometimes more, but yeah, that varies, some of us know that you did it to entertain but it would cost you frames; so course you had to play safe when needed to win. Certainly bought the game alive and the atmosphere round you, that's important. Never forgotten and sad that you're gone and Snooker sure misses you too xx

[@martinda7446]

Spock beamed down to fiddle with Alex's' balls @2:40

[@derekgrieveson6011]

Jesus I miss alex hurricane Higgins snookers not the same without him❤🐕👌

[@wmcelhatton]

I wish I had 1% of his talent for snooker, even then I'd play 10 times better. As he alludes to himself in this video, had he not tried to be such a crowd pleaser, he could have won so much more in the game.

[@leonwhite3812]

"Who would want to be Eddie Charlton?"

[@ufewl]

Eddie Charlton

[@wideernie]

That's probably the best interview I've seen Higgins give. Intelligent, witty etc compared to the bitter person he seemed later on. Sad.

[@stephencampbell6424]

Higgins, Best and maybe Rory, we make them a bit outrageous over here!

[@superfinster]

This should now be called Alex Higgins SEEN footage ^oo^

[@paulallenMacca]

Is the Jam Pot building still standing i remember walking past it maybe once or twice.

[@leebeardshall7668]

No it not there no more.

[@paulallenMacca]

@@leebeardshall7668 Thanks for the Info what was the actual street and number.

[@leebeardshall7668]

@paulallenMacca I don't know that now but they built new houses there back in 2000.

[@paulallenMacca]

@@leebeardshall7668 Thanks for writing back, we had relatives that lived at Soudan Street not too far away.

[@leebeardshall7668]

@@paulallenMacca donegall Road area at sandy Row I just found it.

[@Lisle2nd]

@S7R31F He hates eddie charlton, in his auto bio he says he is boring and greedy

[@fancypantsuk]

It's thanks to this GENIUS. Why snooker is so big today. He put it on the map. Snooker forgets that and higgins was sold out. FACT.

[@gordonm7038]

antony john Just like Best the pressures were too big and a Belfast boy is not used to that exposure so it went wild for both! Both men of the people great entertainers and eccentrics!

[@mousehead2000]

antony john how was he sold out?

[@michael.randall5034]

Hi, Colour telelvision put snooker on the map.

[@johnmc3862]

@@michael.randall5034 Sure but Higgins was the biggest factor in making snooker appear on prime time.

[@haroldmclean3755]

Higgins was Scared of Eddie Charlton Charlton was a Handy Boxer as well

[@unclewreckum4977]

Don't know who Eddy Charlton is but it's clear Alex don't think to fckn highly of him lol

[@leebeardshall7668]

Watch five minutes on you tube type in Eddie Charlton you found out.

[@Lisle2nd]

legand.....ary

[@paulallenMacca]

Very sad he is no longer with us, i prefer the game back then and what it is now.

[@jordanjordan9022]

Might one say: "Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away..."

[@paulallenMacca]

Jordan Jordan very good.

[@joemoonblue]

good find this

[@nugentmilicent7049]

Higgins was a true maverick.with o Sullivan it's contrived

[@nugentmilicent7049]

Higgins just lived life his way.he came up on the wrong side of the tracks.he left home at 15 went to another country to make it.there was no rulebook so he made his own rules.till the end lived life on the edge.with o sullivan he was bought up on a mansion wore glasses as a kid had his own snooker room sat likeca geek watching snooker on tv and practiced day and night.he has never headbutted an official,threatened to shoot anyone,hung out on the streets.the sum of his wild act is he pretends to be a tortured genius who gets no enjoyment,he wears black shirts.otherwise his game is pretty risk free.higgins was a true maverick.if he took the risk out of his game hed have won 8 world titles

[@blackie75]

+nugent milicent higgins was at times violent and mentally unhinged, he was also a very self centred man, not sure about maverick

[@Smudgeroon74]

+nugent milicent Back in the 80's there were plenty of Shootings going on by the various Paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland. It was common. But Dennis Taylor didn't deserve to have been threatened like that. No way.

[@davidgladwin6592]

ALEXANDRIA THE GREAT WOW WOW WOW RIP AMEN

[@vandemataram6639]

Alex Hurricane Higgins the greatest player ever

[@90sretromx25]

The Hurricane is the most naturally gifted player to ever play the game of snooker. Ronnie comes a close second

[@StudentLoanMillionaire]

Best ever

[@freespeech3673]

My father met Alex when he was playing in the Coral UK. Incredibly talented but flawed on a personal level. He wasn't very pleasant, apparently, to women and officials

[@mayway4822]

I love the way he claims that he goes for crazy shots because the crowd is on his side. The reality was that he was totally locked by the end of most matches so he didn't know what he was doing.

[@oshawaxpress]

mayway - the crowd WAS on his side. He was an entertainer and he gave the crowd what they wanted. Your opinion is incorrect.

[@connordarnbrough6284]

"Do you think your going to become a safe player" 😂😂😂 It's alex Higgins...

[@sjs260563]

nice to see Dr Jonathon Miller setting the balls up for him

[@Bedlamar]

Dr Spock @2:29 ?? Alex lived and played with passion.

[@johntate5722]

This seems like alex is in australia or NZ or maybe canada as he says in your country or currency its so many thousands etc. Interviewer sounds like an aussie. Haha who would want to be like eddie charlton?? Alex was priceless

[@pronetostuff]

Wow with a cue.

[@fabulousgerro661]

Alex Higgin's 69 break. Worth a watch.

[@charlesscottkelly]

Talented but a bit of a nightmare I would suggest. He is good at blowing his own trumpet I will give him that. Still to win 2 world titles you got to be good.

[@nfelvis68]

Agreed but he didn't do it long enough in a frame when needed.

[@lb9190]

Did Alex ever own a Kestral?

[@grabar20]

Seen it.

[@Jacob.Streiff]

what did he mean by "who would want to be like eddie charlton" >

[@XrpCookies]

Try watching 5 minutes of Eddie Charlton and if you are still awake you will see why.

[@leebeardshall2888]

@@XrpCookies two minutes is just enough.

[@leebeardshall2888]

@@XrpCookies you got that match when they argued together at the world doubles i remember that alright.

[@Johnmuzzademon]

unseen footage = 10,000+ views...seems legit

[@mayway4822]

How is it "unseen footage" when it's here on KZbin, for fuck sake?

[@callumrobertson3218]

It means this is the first time it's been shown or first time in years.

[@flappospammo]

who would like to be like eddie charlton ? hahaha

[@duncanbirss4333]

Flappo Spammo yeah and face he pulls ! What a man

[@Whiskeywhiskybourbon]

Why does he sound South African?

[@COLEEN322]

BAEST SNOOKER PLAYER EVER FULL FUCKIN STOP!

[@michael.randall5034]

Hi, a great player, but good to watch but only made 78 century breaks and never a maximum break in tornaments Hendry, Davis, made hundreds as have many of the modern players and O'sulllivan over 1000 century breaks who is the best player ever and would beat half of the old Pro's playing left handed. These are facts. I am sure if Higgins had drunk and smoked less and been fitter he would have won a lot more, Mike.R

[@spyrytaraxalass]

@@michael.randall5034 There have been a number of better players of course, but the statistics are distorted by the increased number of tournaments and the (very) different equipment.

[@jordanjordan9022]

Both a genius and a gentleman.

[@gedmcgaffin1255]

Eddie Charlton ! Was he the bald guy that played football for Manchester United?

[@flappospammo]

outrageous potting

[@Grazmataz37]

who would want to be like eddie charlton? what was wrong with eddie?

[@dafergy]

Grazmataz37 He was very, very slow.

[@Grazmataz37]

dafergy so? its snooker not the 100 metre sprint

[@SKYLANDBAK]

Graz - He was slow,methodical & tedious.Similar to Cliff Thorburn in his approach to the game.Eddie was one of the best commentators though.He was great at reading the game & players & putting into words exactly what was or should be happening on the table..

[@leebeardshall2888]

Watch 5 minutes and you see why.

[@spyrytaraxalass]

Steady Eddie was alright. Alex is just making mischief. Having a bit of fun.

[@neil2905]

H Block Higgins.

[@cammy_flage7300]

He was great for his time but he just can't compare to the accuracy Ronnie has with the white ball.

[@jaygan7399]

Ronnie isn't that accurate. If he was he'd win every competition he's ever entered

[@ricdon1515]

drunk

[@spyrytaraxalass]

Me too! 🍻

[@ste9474]

RIP Hendry

[@nugentmilicent7049]

I didn't hear anything funny

[@stu632]

Very good player, best ever? Nowhere near, an amazing talent, mmm, average really, he was just a crazy guy and that's where the hype is from. Nothing special here at all, a guy potting balls, could be anyone ranked 500 in the world messing about. Had is place, was his madness not his talent. Top 20 of all time maybe if lucky.

[@michaelbulls5872]

+Stu M Hahaha, good read, nice story, if you really think there are 499 other people who can pot like a Higgins, go home mate.

[@stu632]

Michael Bulls There are millions that can pot like higgins, if you think he is the epitomy of snooker go have your tiny brain looked at.

[@michaelbulls5872]

Don't necessarily think my brain is that narrow. Did I say he is the epitomy of snooker? I think he's one of the best there ever will be, but I don't put him on a pedestal. If you think there are fucking millions like him, there are going to be an aweful lot of people who will compete in getting that title, don't you think?

[@mattjay3710]

The bloke had no formal coaching and played so unorthodox that there's been not one player who plays remotely like him in the top 50 since. He was undoubtedly one of the best potters of all time and no doubt the best showman. Ranks in my top 3 no problem (Ronnie, Hendry, Higgins in that order)

[@dannygjk]

Get as drunk as Higgins then try playing well.

[@Anonomousxxx]

@Lisle2nd how i met the hurricane?)