Higgins In Lsquomad Manrsquo Snooker Rant 2009: Thursday 19

Higgins in lsquomad manrsquo snooker rant

Thursday, 19 February 2009 Alex ”Hurricane” Higgins in 1980 Snooker player Alex Higgins has been dropped from a charity event in Limerick next month
after he allegedly threatened and verbally abused spectators and a referee at a separate match. The Belfast-born former snooker world champion is reported to have reduced a 10-year-old boy to tears, threatened to smash a snooker ball into a spectator’s face and told the referee at last Thursday’s exhibition match in Kildare that he would stick his cue “up your a”. Higgins’ latest debacle took place in Athy, Co Kildare during a game against Jimmy White. As a result, Limerick and North Tipperary Carer’s Association, who had arranged for the 59-year-old to play in a charity match in Limerick next month, have dropped him from the schedule and replaced him with seven-time world champion, Stephen Hendry. Sports Editor with the Kildare Nationalist newspaper, Brendan Coffey, acted as referee at last week’s match and experienced Higgins’ abuse and threatening demeanour at first hand.
Mr Coffey claimed Higgins behaved like a “mad man”.

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