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Frail Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins living on baby food after losing his teeth in throat cancer battle

By Daily Mail Reporter

Ailing snooker legend Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins looked a shadow of his former self as he attended a charity fund-raiser in his honour yesterday.

The 61-year-old, who won snooker's world title in 1972 and 1982, is has been been living on baby food after losing his teeth from radiotherapy while battling throat cancer.

Stars from the sport including Jimmy White, 47, John Virgo, 63, and Tony Knowles, 54, joined a frail Higgins at a restaurant to raise £20,000 to pay for crucial surgery.

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Other guests at the Yang Sing Chinese restaurant included Coronation Street actors Ryan Thomas and Jack Shepherd, former X Factor contestant Rowetta Satchell and Page 3 model Rhian Sugden.

Higgins needs teeth implants after losing so much weight he can hardly lift a snooker cue.

Guests were forced to do a double take when they saw him enter the function room after placing a bet at a nearby bookies.

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Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesus Christ!

I think that's his own hair. He had a trasnplant. He looks like he has eaten all Higgins food too.
 
Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesut Christ!

[quote author=Stulikesdrums link=topic=40313.msg1106602#msg1106602 date=1274285112]
Jimmy's syrup is fucking awful.
Let it go man.
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Hahaha! It's truly terrible.

And poor the Alex. Christ alive.
 
Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesus Christ!

[quote author=TheFasterBlade link=topic=40313.msg1106690#msg1106690 date=1274307418]
Fucking hell. Not long til he's off to the big crucible in the sky.
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They'll be able to use him as a cue.
 
Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesus Christ!

[quote author=Pesam link=topic=40313.msg1106826#msg1106826 date=1274350892]
[quote author=TheFasterBlade link=topic=40313.msg1106690#msg1106690 date=1274307418]
Fucking hell. Not long til he's off to the big crucible in the sky.
[/quote]

They'll be able to use him as a cue.
[/quote]

LOOOOOL !

*rescinds yellow card*
 
Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesus Christ!

I see him about fairly regularly as i pass one of his locals often, and he's had the wraith thing going for a while.
 
Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesus Christ!

He played at the Crucible recently and he looked a dead man walking.
 
Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesus Christ!

[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=40313.msg1106883#msg1106883 date=1274359738]
I see him about fairly regularly as i pass one of his locals often, and he's had the wraith thing going for a while.
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I used to see him coming out of Benedicts on Shaftesbury Square when I was on my way into the town, is that the one you are taking about?
 
Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesus Christ!

PS-How in the fuck does this make any sense?

Higgins needs teeth implants after losing so much weight he can hardly lift a snooker cue
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Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesus Christ!

He'd taken to the bars in one of the streets linking University Road with Botanic avenue-

erm the Tap House et al. You see him around that part of town (near where he was born of course) all the time.
 
Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesus Christ!

[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=40313.msg1107097#msg1107097 date=1274387829]
He'd taken to the bars in one of the streets linking University Road with Botanic avenue-

erm the Tap House et al. You see him around that part of town (near where he was born of course) all the time.
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I saw him heading into the bookie in Sandy Row just last week looking terrible. But you have to give maximum respect for having the balls to wear that weird hat.
 
Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesus Christ!

[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=40313.msg1107097#msg1107097 date=1274387829]
He'd taken to the bars in one of the streets linking University Road with Botanic avenue-

erm the Tap House et al. You see him around that part of town (near where he was born of course) all the time.
[/quote]

Yup, he was always around Shaftesbury Square. He used to play all-comers at Pool in Laverys for a tenner a game. Any winnings he got, which was rare, used to go to booze followed by McDonalds next door.

A mate, who's fucking useless at snooker, beat him 5 frames in a row at 'Frames' down near the Telegraph offices, but refused to take the 50 quid off him cos he looked so pathetic.

Very very sad.
 
Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesus Christ!

[quote author=vantage link=topic=40313.msg1106576#msg1106576 date=1274283987]
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That's a disturbing image. Alex isn't necessarily the most disturbing here. There's the 40 year-old Billy Bunter, the sleazy-looking Virgo, and Tony Knowles who still looks like he's lost without a mirror.
 
Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesus Christ!

[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=40313.msg1106997#msg1106997 date=1274377388]
PS-How in the fuck does this make any sense?

Higgins needs teeth implants after losing so much weight he can hardly lift a snooker cue
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Lost his teeth in radiotherapy.
 
Re: Alex Higgins. Jeesus Christ!

He's gone......

BBC Sport - Snooker - Snooker legend Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins dies at 61

Former world snooker champion Alex Higgins has died aged 61 after a long battle against throat cancer.

The 1972 and 1982 world champion, a heavy smoker, was reportedly found dead in his flat in Belfast on Saturday.

Recent newspaper pictures showed a painfully thin Higgins in Spain after his hopes of having surgery to get new teeth had been dashed.

Higgins lost all his teeth during his cancer treatment but was not deemed fit enough to have the surgery.

The Northern Irishman Higgins had been suffering from throat cancer for more than a decade and he blamed his illness largely on the cigarette makers who sponsored his sport

His weight had reportedly plummeted to only seven stone as he had to have all his food pureed because eating in a normal fashion had become excruciating.

Friends of the controversial snooker legend had raised around £20,000 to enable Higgins to have the surgery in Spain.

However, he was deemed too frail to undergo the operation by the Spanish medics.

Higgins was in the news in May after claiming that he had knowledge of at least four top players taking bribes to lose tournament matches.

The Northern Ireland legend also revealed that he turned down several big-money offers to throw games in his career.

Higgins, the world champion in 1972 and 1982, claimed Greek gamblers offered him £18,000 in 1979 to lose his Benson & Hedges Masters quarter-final against Perrie Mans and £20,000 to cheat at the Irish Masters in 1989 but rejected both.

Higgins was scheduled to appear in the new World Seniors Championship in November.

The Belfast man clinched his first World title in 1972 as he defeated John Spencer in the final and memorably repeated that triumph 10 years later at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield by beating Ray Reardon.

Higgins was also beaten in the 1976 and 1980 world finals while other triumphs included two Masters titles at Wembley.

He had frequent brushes with snooker's governing body - he once head-butted a tournament director - and his career suffered a downward spiral after being banned for an entire season following a threat to have his compatriot Dennis Taylor shot in 1990.

BBC snooker commentator Philip Studd described Higgins as "snooker's original, troubled genius".


Without Higgins snooker would never have become one of the most popular television sports in the 1980s


"Charismatic, flash, fast, unpredictable, combustible - you just couldn't take your eyes off the 'Hurricane'," the BBC commentator told Radio Five Live.

"While he could never match the consistency of Steve Davis or Stephen Hendry, Higgins on his day was the greatest of them all.

"He touched the heights in 1982 when he won his second world title.

"He pipped Jimmy White to the final thanks to a break still widely regarded as the finest ever made.

"His tears of triumph after beating Ray Reardon - wife and baby in arms - remains one of snooker's most iconic moments.

"Without Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins snooker would never have become one of the most popular television sports in the 1980s and beyond."

Higgins was married twice and had two children with his second wife Lynn, whom he later divorced.
 
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