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World Snooker Championship
- Thread starter summerisle
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JobForTheMoyes
Player Valuation: £40m
Because he said he would let local players win a frame or two in an exhibition tournament! Was a ridiculous setup by the NOTW.
It was not exhibition games.
A horrible cheat who should have got the boot
Other players did the same, banned from the sport...... Higgins just got fined.....
Spot on joey .
Hann, Stephen Lee, couple of Chinese lads
So glad he got beat 9-4 up got beat 10-4 lol - just Everton spoilt our day
Think he supports us so that explains his collapse!!So glad he got beat 9-4 up got beat 10-4 lol - just Everton spoilt our day
JobForTheMoyes
Player Valuation: £40m
They actually fixed matches. Higgins was gonna let local players win some frames in an exhibition league that was not part of the snooker tour.
Incorrect . How would there be betting on exhibition games . He got away with because he lied through his teeth and he's a big name .
JobForTheMoyes
Player Valuation: £40m
What emerges - as I suspected from the outset - is that he was an innocent who was lured into an indiscretion by a conniving partner, Pat Mooney, who candidly admitted his culpability to the inquiry.
Though Mooney was unaware that "the businessmen" with whom he was negotiating a sponsorship deal were undercover NoW journalists, he was aware that one of their requirements was that Higgins deliberately lose certain frames of snooker.
Higgins was kept in the dark until he entered a room in Kiev, where he was covertly filmed agreeing to throw the frames in what Douglas called "apparently damning video" footage. Douglas said: "You realise John was going in as a rabbit in the headlights."
That was the central reason that two serious charges against Higgins by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association about fixing matches and corruption were dropped.
Why Higgins was cleared after News of the World entrapment
The man who led the investigation into the News of the World's entrapment of John Higgins has explained why the snooker player was cleared of fixing matches
Where does it say anything about exhibition matches ?What emerges - as I suspected from the outset - is that he was an innocent who was lured into an indiscretion by a conniving partner, Pat Mooney, who candidly admitted his culpability to the inquiry.
Though Mooney was unaware that "the businessmen" with whom he was negotiating a sponsorship deal were undercover NoW journalists, he was aware that one of their requirements was that Higgins deliberately lose certain frames of snooker.
Higgins was kept in the dark until he entered a room in Kiev, where he was covertly filmed agreeing to throw the frames in what Douglas called "apparently damning video" footage. Douglas said: "You realise John was going in as a rabbit in the headlights."
That was the central reason that two serious charges against Higgins by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association about fixing matches and corruption were dropped.
Why Higgins was cleared after News of the World entrapment
The man who led the investigation into the News of the World's entrapment of John Higgins has explained why the snooker player was cleared of fixing matcheswww.theguardian.com
Not true at all it was main ranking matches
Nothing about exhibition matches at all and he lied through his teeth to get away with it,blaming Mooneythe y both knew what they were doing, I remember watching the video he sat there agreeing losing the third frame and that he’d miss on a purpose to let the other player in,he should of got a lifetime ban 100%
JobForTheMoyes
Player Valuation: £40m
Nope, it was the World Series of Snooker a series of invitational snooker tournaments.