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Clive Harold Everton MBE (7 September 1937 – 27 September 2024) was an English-born Welsh sports commentator, journalist, author and professional snooker and English billiards player. He founded Snooker Scene magazine, which was first published (as World Snooker ) in 1971, and continued as editor until September 2022. [ 1 ]
It was established by Clive Everton in 1972 from the amalgamation of the Billiards and Snooker Control Council's Billiards and Snooker and his own World Snooker. Everton was editor until he retired in September 2022; the following month, it was announced that the magazine would be returning under new owners, Curtis Sport.
Billiards and snooker historian Clive Everton mocked this ambition, noting that there were only 15 spectators at the billiards, and imagined a television announcer introducing "a game none of you understand, played by two people you've never heard of". [11]
Clive Everton 2,804 - 1,976 1972 Norman Dagley Alf Nolan 3,115 - 2,469 1971 Norman Dagley W. J. Dennison 3,672 - 2,019 1970 Norman Dagley Alf Nolan 4,467 - 2,372 1969 Jack Karnehm Mark Wildman 3,722 - 2,881 1968 Mark Wildman Clive Everton 2,652 - 2,540 1967 Leslie Driffield Clive Everton 3,395 - 2,328 1966 Norman Dagley Alf Nolan 3,018 - 2,555
John Parrott progressed after winning three rounds, beating Dennis Hughes 10–3, Clive Everton 10–2 and the 1978 World Snooker Championship runner-up Perrie Mans 10–0. [3] Neal Foulds , aged 20, the British junior snooker champion, [ 13 ] also won three matches to make his Crucible debut, [ 14 ] defeating Doug French 10–5, Les Dodd 10 ...
Snooker historian Clive Everton commented that although Spencer only recorded a small number of breaks above 60, "in every other respect, the new champion's display was a revelation. His long potting, his prodigious screw shots even when cue-ball and object-ball were seven or eight feet apart, his uninhibited use of side, his bright attacking ...
Everton, Clive (1986). The History of Snooker and Billiards. Haywards Heath: Partridge Press. ISBN 978-1-85225-013-3. Hale, Janice (1991). Rothmans Snooker Yearbook 1991–92. Aylesbury: Queen Anne Press. ISBN 978-0-356-19747-0. Hayton, Eric; Dee, John (2004). The CueSport Book of Professional Snooker: The Complete Record & History. Lowestoft ...
David Vine presented the programme and Ted Lowe and Clive Everton were the commentators while there were more referees in this event than previously. Alan Chamberian and John Newton joined long time referee John Williams. The players were all over 40 years of age. Some had retired from the game and some were still competing in tournaments.