Black Farce And Cue Ball Wizards

Throughout its chequered history, snooker has had more than its fair share of heroes and villains, champions and chumps, rascals and rip-off artists. In the last 20 years, every sleazy scandal imaginable has attached itself to this raffish sport: corruption, match fixing, bribery, sex, recreational drugs, performance-enhancing drugs, ballot rigging, fraud, theft, domestic violence, common or garden violence, paranoid politicking, dirty tricks - all against a background of inept petty czars fixated on the pursuit, retention and abuse of power. In "Black Farce and Cue Ball Wizards", Clive Everton recounts the glory and despair, the dreams and disillusion, and the treachery and greed that has characterised the game since it was invented as an innocent diversion by British Army officers in India in the nineteenth century. He tells the true and unexpurgated story of snooker's transformation into a television success story second only to football and exposes how its potential has been shamefully squandered.

Book Details

ISBN: 9781845961992
Publisher: Mainstream
Publication Date: 06 September 2007
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Pages: 399 p.