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Ronnie in his 20s absolutely rocked. His touch of perfection made it all happen, very quickly ❤

Hi snooker blogsvideo. Could you upload the very start of this final from 0_0. Steve knocked in a tremendous 137 break in frame 1. That 137 clearance in the very first frame was awesome. Please upload.👌👌

Hendry would never cheat...this was his gsme going into decline

I find what Lee did was a robbery of snooker history. How great of a Stephen Lee Ronnie O'Sullivan rivalry would have been?

I had to turn off sound with the commentator doing my head in at least Virgo didnt talk this much!

Brilliant. Thanks for sharing

That was difficult to watch, but I like the irony of Stephen Lee's sponsor's name 'Prosperity'...

I think without doubt, Alex Higgins at his best would beat any player playing at their best during his career

Wasn't silvino done for match fixing

This is an unusual way to score a match??

What in the 12 year ban is going on here?!

Why doesn't White play like that now, instead of his torturous-desperate-to-make-sure-of-absolutely-every-pot approach, with his horrible altered bridge hand etc? Okay, he's getting on a bit, might not be quite as quick, but if only he'd watch some of these videos and remember how he used to hit the ball, how he used to bridge, etc.

4 strate 😂

First 2 games, what a huge level diffrence , Lee is on another class. He dominates, makes harder balls, control the white better. He is just giving 50% when rayen day gives 100% and still hardly keeps up. Angry at Lee for the disrespect and low focous. Just imagine he had not have the betting scandal. He would surly dominate the scene or be on the top 10 players constantly. SHAME.😢

It’s fascinating watching these two have a long safety exchange like in that first frame of the video.

Stephen Lee was probably one of the best players I’ve seen and people knew that … for him to play bad in spells it was just to obvious that he was blatant fixing.. but what I don’t get is he could of made enough money by just winning tournaments he was good enough to do that..

Michaela Tabb <3

Stephen Hendry beat Ding twice in the World Championships, and Hendry in his prime was better than Ding.

funny how Betfair was the sponsor, like Johnny Walker sponsoring a Christian Temperance meeting

4-4 that’s a ridiculously short format.

ALEX the great, snooker legend, love him or loathe him, he was a winner, and lived his life on his terms.

English!!!!!!!!

The commentator is doing my head in & ruining the video.

Always turning the damn music off FFS

I have watched all of the claimed fixed games and to be honest there is nothing that jumps out and says this frame is fixed, this particular frame was very scrappy but it is the first frame and players need to settle into the game and there is also the pressure of winning the opening frame. To find a player guilty of match fixing purely on someones opinion is not a safe conviction IMO especially when there is no evidence of strange betting patterns in any of the alleged frames, and then to give him a 12 year ban on someones opinion when Higgins agreed on camera to fix frames and then more or less is given a slap on the hands compared to Lee's case is outrageous IMO, a mans career ruined on very flimsy evidence!

30:03 & 30:40 Alas, the frame has driven a woman to sleep.

Russian commentator just can't stop talking

Steve and Alex respected each others play immensely, they together brought the game into the future.

Steve beat Stephen 9_3 in this match. Steve beat Stephen 9_3 earlier in 1987 in January in the Mercantile Credit Classic semi 9_3 also.

leave him where he is ON the side lines'

He tried to overcut the green at the beginning and it settled in on him 😆

I don't understand why Alex was so universally admired. A brilliant snooker player at his peak, but from what I can gather, a rather obnoxious character too.

Higgins had so many chances in that last set. He would normally pot all those in his sleep

That brown by Davies in the last set 😳😳

Davies was pretty much unbeatable at this point. Higgins would have to be at his very best to beat him, unfortunately his very best was very unlikely in 88

All of snooker games can be extreme boring without Alex Higgins

Hendry breaks off and hits the blue.Lee thinks is he throwing this frame or me😅

Look what i have

I was a big snooker fan when I was a kid in the 80s but I do not remember this match. I remember Alex losing an 8-5 lead to Dennis Taylor in the 87 masters final

Which player is trying to intentionally lose the frame? Lee or Hendry? Watched the whole thing still not sure who should be banned.

In the very 1st frame after Steve broke off, Alex went for a wild long pot in which he missed. Steve cleared the table with a tremendous break of 137. 5 blues to start. And the remaining 10 were blacks after. I knew after watching Steve compile the tremendous 137 break to 0 in frame 1 that he was going to beat Alex. I wanted Alex to win. And Alex Played brilliantly to lead Alain Robidoux 8_1. Alex slipped and won aventualy 9_7 in his semi final Steve beat Dennis 9_1 in the other semi. I remember watching that semi from start to finish on BBC 2. Alex was on BBC 1. Steve looked immortal against Dennis. Breaks of 49, 54, 58 and 60. Won Steve that semi. Any long pot Dennis left Steve was soon potted no problem. Steve,s long potting was so very good then. He never seemed to miss long pots.

How do you snooker board know it was fixed i watched the frame did not look fixed to me he may of been haviing a bad day

Not many people in the audience back then , especially for a quarter finals

18:47 clearly he purposely hit the ball harder than usual so that he got little angle for the green.

Hendry's attempts were occasionally very questionable. I doubt Lee was convicted on the evidence in this game.

How did john Higgins get away with what he did il never get me head around it at all.. maybe causa he had a big name and sold tickets.. plus they have the video. Unreal

I love Jimmy White🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥

You're reaching with this one sorry.

was this one of the matches that was part of the investigation?

2 Scottish snooker legends 👍🏻