As a street kid in Toronto we would go watch him play at the 24 pool hall on young street we'd run errands and such he'd always gave us big tips and buy us food and pay for a table for us to keep us out of trouble
I wouldn't say one of the greatest mainly because cliffs first shot he actually missed and was lucky he got a red potted by accident from the result. Kind of makes the whole break based on a fluke really compared to other 147s thag have been made
@@FreeThinkAlways It doesn't matter that his break started with a fluke. I was sixteen when I watched that match. It was the first 147 I'd ever seen, ever. It left a lasting memory 🙂🙂
The last two blacks and the yellow where great shots under pressure. I love that Bill W was watching from the other side and gave him a big bear hug at the end. Legend of the game and legendary moment, all from a fluked first red. Briliant
All the times I've seen them replay this on the TV during World championship tournaments I have never seen until now Cliff actually miss the first shot and accidently pot the red with a fluke plant
knew of this break because it's often been mentioned in commentary over the years, but this is my first time seeing it and I ever would have guessed it started with a fluke!
I've watched this frame many times but only just noticed the black roll off its spot into a hole in the cloth whenever its re-spotted. See at 40 in the break. Did they borrow a pub table?
The ironic line about the £3,000 high break prize being "worth a night out" didn't age well. With the rampant inflation, in 2022 you'd need to spend all that £3k for just one bloody night out!
@@chrisboggon9467 I don't recall that particular detail. I remember the actual live coverage being interrupted a year or two earlier (?) to broadcast events at the Libyan embassy siege
Highest break possible is 154,,,, if a player makes a foul and leaves his opponent a free ball and pots a colour ( the free ball) then the black, then he goes on to pot all fifteen reds with blacks and all the colours,,,,154. 🙂👍🏻
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