CLIFF THORBURN was chased by his old boss after quitting his job to play snooker full-time. Eleven years before he won the ...

WHEN former world snooker champion Cliff Thorburn appeared at the Trinity Snooker Club on Saturday, he spoke about the 1980 final he played against rival Alex Higgins. Thorburn recounted that, with ...

CLIFF THORBURN was chased by his old boss after quitting his job to play snooker full-time. Eleven years before he won the 1980 World Snooker Championships, the Canadian cueist decided to try to ...

Cliff Thorburn collected a cheque for £37,500 when he lifted the Masters title for a second time with a 9-6 win over Doug Mountjoy in 1985 at the old Wembley Conference Centre in London.

A FORMER world snooker champion gave a talk in Henley of his memories playing at the Crucible. Cliff Thorburn, who turned 77 ...

O'Sullivan and Hendry also form a unique quartet alongside Cliff Thorburn and Paul Hunter as the only players in the history of the Masters to successfully defend the title the following year.

Jimmy White was forced to apologise in 2002 after he knocked a snooker ball off the table during his clash with Matthew ...

There were also two at the 2023 World Championship, with Mark Selby becoming the first player to manage it in a Crucible final on the 40th anniversary of Cliff Thorburn's historic effort.