(Poor quality recording) Jimmy White v Alex Higgins 1982 SF

Apologies for the quality of this, but I guessed some people would still prefer to see it rather than not at all. Video has been cobbled together from various sources to include all the known footage I've seen of this match.

[@blehoo1]

Alex the ultimate enigma, but there is something incredible graceful about watching Jimmy at his prime in full flow. He reminds me of Federer on a tennis court. Creative flare flowing in from every shot. Beautiful.

[@jonnywyattgreengreen3301]

My favourite match of all time, watched it so many times on my people's champion video l got for Christmas 1982 .

[@leebeardshall7668]

The greatest match of all time.

[@eastwood4lifefan334]

Sheer joy revisiting one of the greatest matches of snooker ever played by two of the greatest players in Alex Higgins & Jimmy White, As a 11yr old kid watching this late night i never forgot the moment & the greatest under pressure break by a player in saving the match in the 30th frame with a epic 69 break clearance ! As a huge Alex Higgins fan, him winning the world title in 1982 was one of the greatest moments in the game, the Peoples Champion he was ! Alex Hurricane Higgins !!!

[@johntcashdown1363]

I was 15 when I watched this, sheer, all out attack, that 69 clearance, just brilliant 🤩

[@marcostaiano4171]

Thanks as always for the special upload! Wondering if you have in your archives a footage of Patsy Houlihan. Seems like there is no way to see him in action (even if past of his best)

[@TheBoxingGlove]

Great upload!. This is gold dust!. When snooker had real characters playing.

[@chrisboggon9467]

What specifically makes a 'real character'?

[@damienspurs147]

@@chrisboggon9467 why so serious ?

[@chrisboggon9467]

@@damienspurs147 What specifically makes a 'real character' haha?

[@danielkarmy4893]

MJT, mate, I can't speak for others - they've clearly spoken for themselves - but for myself, as a snooker fan, a snooker historian, a snooker enthusiast, a snooker archivist...if all that remained of a once-broadcast match was a single pixel on a white screen, I'd rather see it than for it to be hidden away. So you can probably tell what I think about three hours of the most celebrated Crucible semi-final ever played! I mean, away from that side of it, people forget that Jimmy wasn't yet 20 here; a teenager in the semi-finals of the World Championship. That, in itself, was incredible.

[@jahno7154]

A female commentator in 1982 !! they were years ahead of time

[@MrMartinmozz]

32:16 that plant from Jimmy...

[@alangrynich3615]

Watched this in 82 well bits of it i was 5 years old at the time and from that day it was always jimmy who i liked best and Alex came a close second. When you think at the time jimmy was just still 19 years old such a great player to watch and still going

[@jackoherts]

Both players poetry in motion and I could watch this every minute of the day. White was simply outstanding and both played the game as it should be.

[@tissandtrot]

This is brilliant thanks so much been after footage for this match for years thanks again

[@p4rf252]

Alex higgins has to be the most infuential and entertaining player the game has ever seen

[@DavidMander-rs4uk]

That is good quality for 1982!

[@Happy-mh8xq]

Why is he still trying to play when there’s 13 points on table? 😂😂😂😂

[@schmurgen5242]

You misremember the standard as being so much better than it actually was.

[@Captain_Rhodes]

Ronnie is the greatest but for me the 80's into the 90's was the best era for snooker

[@tissandtrot]

Looking at this makes me wonder how Jimmy lost he seemed the better player

[@jahno7154]

Jimmy white never could handle the pressure he's bottled many world titles

[@chrisjames9688]

Jimmys attempt at 16:53

[@chrisjames9688]

16:30 jimmys attempted escape

[@williamkeery7376]

Oh frame 30,Higgins 69,the greatest break ever still can't believe 41 years later how he cleared that lot,balls everywhere nearby impossible to clear that,Barry Hearn has said it was a 50-1 chance,i'd say 100-1 brilliant ❤

[@eddieheron1939]

Even in 1982, we were still hearing the call "thankyou gentlemen" to tame the crowd, there being so very few females watching, perhaps other than players' partners

[@Paul-sl9zm]

I like the quality, this would've been exactly what it was like on those fuzzy old TVs in the 80s.

[@dvidclapperton]

John Williams can't keep up when respotting the colours.

[@PandaWhistle]

Absobutely great! Where can i see more of this vintage ? HOW ?

[@jozefserf2024]

White at his best. The finest technician the game has ever seen. Great to hear the voice of Vera Selby once more.

[@bagpuss121]

They Both Play At Roughly The Same Pace .

[@tylerhay6560]

It may be exciting but it’s amazingly careless at times. I think the Reardon/Charlton semi-final was probably played to a higher standard on the whole.

[@dvidclapperton]

Reardon had 4-0 head to head vs White 1982 to 1983 and had 3-0 head to head vs White in 1982 alone, so those who claim the world champion that year would have come from this semi final whoever won are talking silly buggers. Reardon beat White 10-5 in the ranking Professional Players tournament in 1982. Reardon beat White at both the 1982 UK Championship and 1983 Masters in the same season to prove that White wouldn't definitely have beaten Reardon had he got to the final instead of Higgins. Reardon was 15-15 with Higgins in the final after all, so I could see that White could very well have lost to Reardon had it not been for Higgins incredible break.

[@mattbrierley2807]

It was some cracking snooker , that famous banana blue shot back then was a great shot .

[@safeashouses211]

Very nice, thanks!

[@tissandtrot]

Love this can't stop watching it

[@djelalhassan7631]

Great

[@TheMrBennito]

Jimmy White doing the 100m snooker in 9.56 s

[@damienspurs147]

Thanks for this mate magical times 💜

[@beasleycourt8873]

One of the greatest semi finals ever played. A 4 frame lead was the furthest that occurred. When Jimmy lead 8-4. From then on it swung back and forth....Till that memorable break of 69..

[@itnaklipse1669]

i like how Alex played the frame to the end not conceding.. makes me think maybe O'Sullivan was doing an homage a while back when he played the frames to the last ball.

[@BeatleMark85]

Who are the commentators on this match?

[@doctorsocrates4413]

Ted Lowe and David vine.

[@vrgamestudio294]

Jack Karnham and (i think) Vera Selby?

[@vrgamestudio294]

Also Jack Karnham and John Spencer.

[@vrgamestudio294]

Ted Lowe is in there too with Rex Williams.

[@MrMartinmozz]

42:31 love the way John Williams was hypnotised by the beauty... :)

[@TanveerAhmed-gl5jk]

No cue ball controll todays average club player could play better than this standard .

[@josephbland3904]

Spellbinding snooker. Ambrosia…