With the World Championship starting on Saturday at The Crucible, there's no better time to look back on some of snooker's ...

For a moment in the mid-1980s snooker ruled the world. The 1985 World Championship final between Steve Davis and Dennis ...

The world’s best snooker player against the unfancied challenge ... Charlton and Cliff Thorburn en route, before hammering Tony Knowles 16-5 in the semi-finals to suggest he posed a threat ...

The result was a world snooker final – which concluded in ... Eddie Charlton and Cliff Thorburn en route, before hammering Tony Knowles 16-5 in the semi-finals to suggest he posed a threat ...

While bad boy snooker players hit headlines in the 1980s, one player Tony Knowles even sold his story to the papers in 1984, and posed with topless models. Now 69 and still playing in the seniors, ...

“Steve and myself were part of snooker history together,” Taylor told the PA news agency when Davis announced his retirement ...

Kyren Wilson is determined to banish the so-called 'Crucible curse' once and for all when he gets the defence of his World ...

Think Tony Knowles thrashing champion Steve Davis ... Like all the great Crucible tales, this went far beyond snooker. Davis dug deep like the champion he is, but vitally Johnson edged the session ...