Former world snooker champion Alex Higgins has claimed that 4 top snooker players have taken bribes.
The 1972 and 1982 Crucible king said: “I’m still in touch with top agents in the game and the only thing they’ve said about this is, “How greedy do you want to be?” I know of at least four pros who have taken big bribes to chuck games. The names would shock the public if it was proved they were on the take.”
“Just because they wear crisp white shirts doesn’t make them clean…
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Barry Hearn has confessed that the News of the World exposé on John Higgins and his manager Pat Mooney does not ‘look good’ for the 3-time Crucible winner.
Hearn, speaking after the News of the World published a story on world number 1 and last year’s World Champion Higgins, which allegedly shows him agreeing to lose 4 frames of snooker in exchange for a cash payment of £261,000, said:
“Obviously the guy is in bits and I can sympathise with him because it’s been his whole life – the guy is number one in the world”
After crashing out to Graeme Dott in the first round of the World Snooker Championship and slipping out of the world’s elite top 16 in the process, Peter Ebdon has expressed his concern at Barry Hearn’s plan to shake up the sport.
Hearn, chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, has plans for his Matchroom Sport business to take a 51% share in the sport, with the remaining stake leftover to players and fellow promoters.
But 2002 world champion, Ebdon, is unhappy with Hearn’s company having such a stranglehold on the game
