Black Farce and Cue Ball Wizards

Author:

By Clive Everton

Format:

Hardback

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In print, usually dispatched within 3-4 days.

Price:

£17.99 £12.59 (Save 30%)

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Snooker, Pool and Billiards, Snooker

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Further Details

• Published: 6th Sep 2007
• ISBN: 1845961994
• Pages: 400
• Size: 241mm x 161mm

From Word of Sport:

It's a shame that the design department didn't realise that instead of moody and atmospheric, the cover just looks dark and unappealing. But don't let that put you off for while it may no longer enjoy the popularity it had in its prime, there is still a very loyal audience of snooker fans. This expose of the game's development and its somewhat Machiavellian underbelly is written, with authority, by esteemed commentator Clive Everton.

From the Publisher:

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 tsars 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 have 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 tale of snooker's transformation into a television success story second only to football and exposes how its potential has been shamefully squandered.