The all-conquering Steve Davis, the defending champion and three-time winner, faced off against Dennis Taylor in one of snooker’s greatest finals. The world’s best snooker player against the unfancied ...

FOR many, snooker’s golden era was the 1980s. Steve Davis’ six World Championship titles, the emergence of Jimmy White and ...

For a moment in the mid-1980s snooker ruled the world. The 1985 World Championship final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor is usually seen as the high watermark, with 18 million viewers rapt by ...

Terry Griffiths, who has died from complications of dementia aged 77, was the rank outsider who in 1979 pulled off one of the biggest shocks in snooker history when he snatched the World Championship ...

Bradford’s Joe Johnson is celebrated as being the only Yorkshireman to ever be crowned snooker’s world champion at the Crucible. He captured the hearts of the nation after beating Steve Davis in ...

Dennis Taylor (born 19 January 1949) is a Northern Irish retired professional snooker player and current commentator. He is best known for winning the 1985 World Snooker Championship, where he ...

IT might just be one of the most iconic images of sport. It is certainly the most memorable one in snooker. Thirty years ago, a 36-year-old from Blackburn completed the most unlikely of comebacks in ...

Snooker greats Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor will step back into the spotlight in Hamilton this October to recreate their unforgettable 1985 World Championship Final. The legendary ‘black-ball’ ...

Dennis Taylor treated himself to a luxurious £50,000 car following his iconic World Snooker Championship victory in 1985. The now 76-year-old, from Coalisland, Co Tyrone, first made waves in the sport ...