Alex RIP

Alex died in poverty, they say. He may have been skint but is this poverty? Van Gogh, Charles Rennie Macintosh died broke but left an imprint on cultural history. In a hundred years Alex will still be talked of, not John Higgins. Love and understanding to a hero of my life, Alex Higgins. He smoked and drank until the end and lived to 61 winning 2 world championships a decade apart, the first whilst homeless staying in a row of derelict houses in Blackburn. He dragged snooker from being an obscure pub game and made it a national sport, a national obsession inthe 1980s. The game he made rejected him at times for his behaviour, he was a naughty lad. There will be the usual crap written about wasted talent as there was when Best died from the temperance lobby forgetting the legend he was and his vast achievements that will be remembered long after players who may be won more yet won without panash. I feel honoured to have seen the greatest player of all time.