http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Alex-Hurricane-Higgins-Dies-Snooker-Star/Article/201007415670421?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15670421_Alex_Hurricane_Higgins_Dies%3A_Snooker_Star
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R.I.P. Alex. Loved watching him play snooker on TV as a kid. I remember him winning in 82. The whole country seemed to be rooting for him.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 July 2010 18:53 (fifteen years ago)
Oh shit! RIP Hurricane.
― WOOD! GOBLINS! (NickB), Saturday, 24 July 2010 19:04 (fifteen years ago)
having seen those photos a month or 2 back im not surprised, he really was unrecognisable.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 July 2010 19:05 (fifteen years ago)
These photos are so fucking sad xp :(
― WOOD! GOBLINS! (NickB), Saturday, 24 July 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
:-( Just posted this on the rolling obit thread.
― ailsa, Saturday, 24 July 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
RIP
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 24 July 2010 19:08 (fifteen years ago)
Sky Sports News reporting that his body was found in a (his?) flat, the door was broken down after he'd failed to respond to phone calls :-(
― ailsa, Saturday, 24 July 2010 19:15 (fifteen years ago)
I remember this like it was yesterdayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H2mYfgkwtY
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 July 2010 19:16 (fifteen years ago)
Damn it, proper tears watching that presentation here.
― WOOD! GOBLINS! (NickB), Saturday, 24 July 2010 19:22 (fifteen years ago)
sad
― dill hai to mango aur (cozen), Saturday, 24 July 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)
nick b otm
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 July 2010 21:12 (fifteen years ago)
ah man
― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Saturday, 24 July 2010 21:18 (fifteen years ago)
shame, another legend gone.
― not_goodwin, Saturday, 24 July 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)
this is greathttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/8623219.stm
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 July 2010 21:53 (fifteen years ago)
want to remember him that way.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:15 (fifteen years ago)
that clip is gold! dude had some deadpan humour about him
― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:41 (fifteen years ago)
RIP Alex. Goodnight, sweet prince etc.
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Monday, 26 July 2010 10:07 (fifteen years ago)