Cliff Thorburn looks back on his 147 and Snooker Referee Brendan Moore talks about retirement. 

Never knew Cliff lost a baby at that moment. Extremely sad. What a guy.

Jack saying "good luck mate" is a core memory for me

The moment he said him and his wife lost their baby nearly had me in tears!

I personally know both Cliff Thorburn and Kirk Stevens. Kirk still lives in Scarborough and Cliff lives in Unionville. My father used to golf with Cliff. My brother taught Cliff's son Brett at Trudeau secondary school. Once he heard that last name Thorburn it was all A's. I remember Kirk when he was just 12 years old playing snooker at The Golden Cue in Scarborough and Joe the owner let him play for free. Joe used to back him for anyone who wanted to play for cash. He never went to school at Bendale they used to phone the pool hall every morning at 9:30am. I remember Cliff from the 1970's at Le Spot a snooker and pool hall in Scarborough he was the 50 percent owner. I just live a city east of Unionville.

What a legend. I always enjoyed watching Cliff and he is a true gentleman. I was surprised that he left the cue ball so far from the yellow and the green when he played those shots, but he was so calm all the way through it. I was saddened to hear about his baby though - I am so sorry for his loss.

Cliff always a LEGEND to us Brits, a true gentleman of the game. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

well done Cliff.....remember watching you in the late 70's early 80's......such a gent!!..

Such a lovely man. I've seen multiple interviews, and his sense of humour and fun shines through. Always positive talking about other players. I wish we had more Canadians playing snooker on TV!

He made us Canadians proud. Thanks Cliff!

A true gentleman. He came to our club in East Sussex to do an exhibition, and my dad played him. He was brilliant, funny and provided some excellent entertainment. Snooker is much richer due to Cliff Thorburn.

Cliff Thorburn with that 147, has to be the most stylish breaks I've ever seen in old school snooker.

A really lovely man

Cliff Thorburn along with Doug Mountjoy my two favourite players from the days gone by!❤

I would like to see Cliff play again, I used to watch him play at the Golden Mille , when he l played with some of the players in the 1960’’, that were regulars there. I my self started to play there, John and Dennis ran the Mille club. I have a lot of memories from there, watching all the good players who played there, and came from all over the city. I learned many things then, I still play today, and I am 78!! I still love the game and play on my own table. I play snooker and all the American pool games on my snooker table, the pockets are regulation snooker size. However I use the proper size pool balls for the American pool games larger balls than the snooker ones. This makes those games really more challenging. Much more fun to make it tougher. Thanks 🙏 🎱🎱 I would like to add I also watched Kirk Steven play snooker as well, he has been a favourite player of mime, I am very proud that I have a rare cure which has his name on it, the cue was made by Adam cue a two piece. I brought it at snooker Canada when the club first started. So I am very close to those players.

Cliff was a match for anybody when Alex and Steve were about great player great guy 😎👍🎱🎱🎱🎱🎱🎱

Ought to be a statue commemorating Cliff and this great sporting moment in our shared hometown of Victoria BC!

What a great character, as a kid i always thought cliff looked almost cowboy like with that moustache 🤣🤣 great player, slow but assured

"Uncle" Jack Karnehm was the Peter Alliss of snooker, any game you were watching was better when he was commentating. I remember my sister in law suddenly getting interested in snooker when she found out Cliff's nickname was the grinder.

I always knew Cliff Thorburn would keep his hair into old age, he just had one of those hairlines that you know is going nowhere.

If Cliff wouldnt fluke the 1st red then Terry could have been the one with the 1st 147

I thought cliff died years ago, I'm glad he is still alive

It seemed Cliff had to overcome many less than satisfactory pots on his way to the 147. In other words, he followed up with a great shot. The last shot was not easy either.

He was at the centre of Cue ExtensionGate.

brilliant

Awwwww GOOD LUCK mate

He finished with 151 points wonder if that has been done again? Foul by Terry 3rd shot i think?

strange about the cash

thought he was great in Game of Thrones as well....

Light up an embassy

so he scored 151 poiints in total :)

Except the kids of today are making a mockery of how easy the game is

Can't believe how greedy and unscrupulous the sponsor's were to deny Cliff what was rightfully his they knew a 147 could happen so why wouldn't they have said something before the Championships began.

Why the awful music?

Met him at the crucible ..top guy made history

I nearly got a 147, but I missed the first black.🫣

Such a wonderful and proud Canadian memory of Cliff Thorburn (147) I was 12 yrs old, Northern Ontario, Canada. So sad to know he lost a baby then too. Heart breaking. This is first time hearing that.

What a gent Cliff is, the fact that an event that brings so much joy to Snooker fans who witnessed it and to those who have heard of it through it's Legendary status within the Sport's history is, to Cliff, eternally bound to such a tragic event in his life is very sad.

Jack Karnheim's "Good luck mate" is one of the greatest moments in sports commentary.

Right, Cliff, you were young, at the peak of your powers, congrats, all of snooker in Canada was the better for it, your a lovely chap, have nothing but admiration for your love of the game.

Thanks for posting this fabulous interview I remember watching the 147 live. Iconic. Tremendous telly.

Thorburn came through three final-frame deciders in that WC: 13-12 v Griffiths in the 2nd round, 13-12 v Kirk Stevens in the QF and 16-15 v Tony Knowles in a ridiculously dramatic semi-final which finished well after midnight. The next day he had to start the final against Steve Davis, who had crushed Alex Higgins 16-5 and Eddie Charlton 13-5 in his previous two matches, so was fresher and more rested. Thorburn was also processing his wife's miscarriage. The final was a one-sided affair, perhaps not surprisingly. Davis was the better player, no question, but Thorburn's physical and mental exhaustion played their parts in that final.

They should reimburse him with whatever they withdrew from him also . Embarrassing. Real characters back then ,Although it's moved on greatly the standard and pressures very much higher than it once was I miss those days . As a young lad in the early 70s I frequently went to Butlins/ Pontins . Morecambe Bay , Middleton Towers. Claim to fame was I had my photo taken 3 years on the trot with the wonderful Mr John Spencer who would play whoever won the camp competition that week . As a 7/8 year old for some reason I stil recall him bringing his own snooker balls in a small brown case and I watched him leave in a Mercedes ( a rare car back then ). Happy carefree times .

I am so sorry he and partner lost a Baby, same day, so sad. ❤️

I’ve only just realised, if you include the foul, this was a 151 break!

Amazing he fluked the first red and still ran out. Life can be so very cruel as his phone call to his wife afterward proves. Canada's cue world places this man at the top, a living legend.

I had an early breakfast with Cliff many years back in Sheffield. It was fascinating to listen to his stories. It was, however, the longest breakfast I ever had, but Cliff didn’t seem to notice. Lovely man.

I remember meeting Cliff in Regina Saskatchewan in the late 1960s when he came into town to put on a snooker demonstration. His friend Don Blair arranged tickets for my dad and me. Although my dad was a pretty good snooker player, and won some trophies in Liverpool England, he had never seen a century break live until Cliff's demonstration....Good times 50 years ago.

The over dramatised music in the background,just not necessary

I'm from gaudy, angst ridden, jaded, Southern California and I recently fell in love with Snooker. There, I said it. Let all those with ears hear.

I’d never heard of Cliff Thorburn until I watched him on tv playing snooker in England ,even though he lived only two hundred miles south of me when he was in Canada. Until today I never knew he was the first to break a 147. Happy for him but sad about the loss of his baby.

Thankyou Cliff Thorburn. Class is indeed, permanent.

40 years ago. The first 147. Great memory. I think this was the match that finished at near 4am?

So TG fouls giving 4 points away, and then he shoots a maximum. That's a 151 break.

What about Selby then does his not count?