Searching for Hurricane Higgins

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781444733853
• ISBN10: 1444733850
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2011-10-19
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Summary

Tony's Francis' biography of Alex "Hurricane" Higgins is so much more than the definitive biography of a world champion snooker player, because Higgins transcended sport in a way very few sportsmen ever have. The author describes how Alex threw himself into life like a man throwing himself off a cliff. No safety net. No plan. No fear. No shame. Francis interviews more than 30 witnesses to this extraordinary life and comes up with a series of adventures Don Quixote would have been proud to call his own. The author investigates the Irish drink culture which undermined his family, colleagues and, of course Higgins himself. How did Higgins' fellow Irish sportsman and biggest fan, Barry McGuigan, escape the excesses which dragged Higgins and George Best into the gutter? Did drink account for Higgins' wild outbursts or was there something more to it? Why did his lost love describe the man who once head-butted a tournament official as "the gentlest man I ever met"? For all his faults, Higgins was, for a time, the most loved sportsman in Britain. He remains a legend and the most outstanding, charismatic snooker player who ever walked into an arena.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Photographic Acknowledgements	p. x
Foreword	p. xi
He was my subject	p. 1
He was no more	p. 13
He was my best mate	p. 25
He was a freak show	p. 39
He was my son	p. 61
He was one of us	p. 75
He was my fellow musketeer	p. 87
He was my dad	p. 99
He was mine too	p. 127
He was my hero	p. 139
He was my playmate	p. 149
He was my 'fiancé'	p. 167
He was my travelling companion	p. 179
He was my husband	p. 195
He was my client	p. 225
He was my inspiration	p. 239
He was my biggest mistake	p. 255
He was our brother	p. 263
He was our responsibility	p. 283
He was our passport	p. 307
He was my ward of court	p. 323
He was my model	p. 333
Appendix - Highs and lows	p. 353
Index	p. 355
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