Television commentator and the moral conscience of snooker through his campaigning journalism on the sportClive Everton, who has died aged 87, was known to millions worldwide as the calm, authoritative voice of televised snooker, but of even greater importance was his work as a campaigning journalist for better governance of the game.Through his editing of the magazine Snooker Scene for 50 years, as well as his writing for the Guardian and other newspapers, Clive was engaged in a near-constant battle with snooker’s governing bodies as, he wrote in his 2007 memoir Black Farce and Cue Ball Wizards, they “frittered away its potentialities through incompetence, mismanagement and worse”. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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A few months ago, after I picked up and devoured a beautifully written memoir by Elisa Hategan and was left with a serious Continue reading at HuffPost
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