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History Of Snooker [DVD]
enlarge	Actors: Steve Davis, Clive Everton Studio: Go Entertain Category: DVD List Price: ~~£17.99~~ Buy New: £9.10 as of 23/11/2009 01:53 GMT details You Save: £8.89 (49%) New (9) Used (4) from £6.98 Seller: selectcheaper Rating: 5 reviews Sales Rank: 25799 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Exempt Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 190 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5023093054618 ASIN: B0007KI8U2 Release Date: March 14, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Great October 9, 2007 Naveed Sahu Khan (Fiji) 4 out of 4 found this review helpful I found this dvd to be great.It covers basically all the championships from its early days till 2003.The action is great and i still haven't had enough of watching it.This is one of my favourite dvds and something to really treasure.....if you are a snooker fan of course!!!!!! Great DVD - very watchable! August 14, 2009 M. Walker (UK) I recently bought this DVD for my 7 year old son, who is just beginning to get into snooker in a big way. We have watched it many times, but it's still great. It has taught us how the game was started and about Joe and Fred Davis. My son would like to be able to curl the ball round like Joe Davis! Clive Everton and Steve Davis are excellent at presenting the information. Very entertaining. But....... January 18, 2008 J.K.J 6 out of 6 found this review helpful First of all it has to be said that this DVD is not as the title suggests a history of Snooker but more of a summery of world championship finals between the 1970's and 2003 which is certainly not a bad thing though it would have been nice to have had a proper description of the game's origins. Unfortunately the early legends of the game such as Joe Davis, Fred Davis and John Pullman (the latter appearing in a very short clip from a holiday camp) are only briefly touched upon and there is no mention at all of the great Scottish player Walter Donaldson who was the first person to become world champion after the domination of Joe. Strangely there is far more attention given to Terry Griffith and his 79 win than to the combined achievements of Ray Reardon and John Spencer. br / br /Those grumbles aside this is a really enjoyable piece of sporting nostalgia as many of the most memorable moments of Snooker are replayed such as Alex Higgins incredible clearance in the 82 semi-finals, the famous black ball game between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis (Davis displaying rare frailties in the 80's), Joe Johnson's unexpected 86 win and the rise and rise of Stephen Hendry in the 90's. Ably narrated and presented by Clive Everton and Steve Davis this is an excellent release that will be extremely entertaining for fans of the green-baize game. br / Sam's review July 5, 2006 Sam's reviews (Wales UK) 7 out of 8 found this review helpful This dvd shows some of the best parts from world championship finals, from the early days of Joe Davis up to when Mark Williams beat Ken Doherty in the final of the 2003 final. It also shows some of the best clearances from players such as Alex Higgins. The footage was good and well narrated by Clive Everton, and Steve Davis presented it well, the only reason I gave it four stars instead of five was because it did'nt show any footage from earlier rounds of the championships, which in my opinion can be better than the final itself. But overall it was very good, and definetly worth seeing for anyone who is intrested in Snooker. Good for half an hour August 9, 2009 Mr. A. G. Owen This is a DVD which starts off with the best of intentions, but turns into a boring, misleading affair with many glaring omissions. br / br /This is not, as the cover suggests, a 'history of snooker'. It may appear that way for the first half an hour with brief appearances from Joe Davis in smoky pre-war snooker halls, but the attention quickly turns to the Crucible and rarely turns away from it thereafter. br / br /Omitted are such events as Willie Thorne's missed blue in the 1985 UK Championship, Taylor's win against Higgins in the 'grudge match of all time', the epic Davis-Hendry UK championship final of 1990, the black-ball final of the Masters in 1998...the list goes on. All far more deserving of attention than the bizarre 60+ minutes given to the 2003 world final. br / br /This just seems a lazy effort. All of the events from the World Championship are there; the 85 final, Higgins' clearance in 1982, White's agonising miss in 1994, everything one would expect. But to ignore all the other tournaments and those wonderful, dramatic contests is just unforgivable.

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