Drago is one of those players who is the absolute antithesis of the mechanical/robotic modern day snooker player. He is brilliant, charismatic, exciting and makes people want to play. I know he didn’t win much but a naturally skilful talent
He is brilliant at a open table , his position etc is spot on. He gets confused when things go awkward. That is his biggest weakness. Pleasure to watch , absolute genius.
Commentators made it appear as though it was staggering when a Hendty match went close or even if somebody managed to win more than a couple of frames in a session or short length match.
Twitching all over the place at the end drago, was also in hendrys final stages of been a big tournament winner, had lost 97WC 97uk and 98 masters finals and won his last major in 99 WC
Drago was Batshit crazy. He threatened to set himself on fire in a restaurant in London when the chef refused to serve him a steak well done. There is a retired snooker player on RU-vid who gave a video interview about the time he went out for a meal with Drago. He said that Drago was a nice guy but he was completely batshit crazy. . Apparently, Drago poured Vodka on his left forearm in front of the waitor and threatened to set his left forearm on fire with a disposable lighter because the chef refused to cook his steak well done. Drago was asked to leave and he refused so the police were called. He was ejected from the restaurant by the police without incident but his friend was allowed to remain. The next day the manager came back at 8:30am to open up the restaurant and found Drago with a broom, bucket of water soapy, and sponges washing the windows of the restaurant. The manager challenged Drago and when Drago turned round he had the word SORRY scrawled in big Black letters across his forehead with a Black felt tip pen. Apparently Drago had got the hot water from a petrol station down the road and brought his own bucket and sponges from his house. He also brought a hard broom and dustpan and brush which he used to sweep the entire forecourt and paving slabs of the adjacenct building aswell as the actual restaurant itself. He had washed all the windows of the restaurant and swept the entire forecourt of the adjacent building aswell. There is a retired snooker player on RU-vid who gave a video interview about the incident. He mentions how he popped back into the restaurant a few days later and the bewildered manager took him to one side and told him about the entire bizzare incident! The manager recalled in detail how bizarre Drago looked with the word SORRY scrawled across his forehead whilst he finished up cleaning the outside of the restaurant. Drago was a certified mental case.
the tornado record is in the guinness book of records with a 149 maximum^^ look it up and he has one 147. i really like is fuck you attitute, i've allready played him in 9 ball as a kid!
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Ben Richards He has mad a 135 clearance in 3:15 , in his younger years, he told me this sunday in Vienna :) It was not televised.
Needs re-titled to one of his only wins of his career, he thought he was a natural but he wasn't but because he believed it he never tried to actually learn to play properly, master of his own failure. Hardly any of his shots went in cleanly. He beats Hendry only after Hendry had stopped winning
It wasn't ususlly a whitewash between Hendry and Drago. Drago even won 6 frames vs Hendry in the 1991 uk quarter final, and took 6 against Hendry once in a best or 25 at the Crucible.
Same season that Hendry won another world title. You can't do that if you can't make a ball. That wasn't the yips though. Maybe just that he wasn't invincible any longer, Hendry wasn't the only player by then who could rack up a lot of big breaks at that point in his career. The chances or him ever achieving 5 in a rows again at both the Crucible and Wembley were vanishingly small. But the chatces of him winning another triple crown title at that point were still highly realistic even though so many people were quickly writing him off as being finished just because he was no longer golng unbeaten and did not automatically look like by far the overwhelming favourite in the triple crowns right from the off and through each and every round any more.
In his Autobiography, Hendry said that over coaching resulted in him losing his natural ability. He ended up concentrating more on his action than the shot.
@@sugs1191 yeah I remember Drago went mad with him cos Hendry said that the best bet of the first round was Steve James to beat Drago in the world championship. Drago beat James something like 10-1 and criticised Hendry in his after match press conference
@Wayne Holmes LOL. An English tournament with red and yellow balls without pocket billiards pros participating isn't a world championship even when the name says so.
@Wayne Holmes Google "world championship 2006 8-ball" and Wikipedia will tell you that there was no (official) world 8-ball championship in 2006. No snooker player has more than 10% chance to win against an Efren Reyes or an Earl Strickland in his prime on a race to 11. And on a world championship a player runs into 5 or more of a similar kind = virtually no chance of winning.
@@ianwilliamson2980 You mean the "world" pool championship that's known as a poor man's snooker. The big pool world championships is the 9 ball when Sid Waddell kept mentioning "Former world champion" every 5 mnutes to the many former world champions matches he was commentating on.
