An early World Snooker Championship defeat caused Alex Higgins to unleash ... Eventually, they were separated and Higgins delivered a retirement speech in which he abused the observing media ...

Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, the snooker player ... after losing to Steve James at the world championships, and threatened retirement. Snooker was a horribly corrupt sport, he declared; it should ...

“What does Hurricane mean?” asked a then unknown 22-year-old Alex Higgins, after becoming snooker’s youngest ever world champion. “It just means tornado, like. But Alexander The Great was ...