goalscrounger
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Ha, what would you have us do? People who didn't know the game that well used to tell me I should look at going pro, reality was I wasn't anything like good enough. The gap was massive between people like me (good) and the people who could do that. I used to play with Jon Birch who did turn pro. He was about 50 times better than me and he was only a low ranked pro in the end. Mike Dunn the same. That being said I did once beat Jimmy White in a one off frame when he did an exhibition at the old Endeavour Snooker Centre.
I was better at billiards, but again not good enough for pro and there's no money in it anyway. I did beat Peter Gilchrist a couple of times in the boys league and he has won the world pro championships a good few times. But that was in a 30 minute match, again he was in a different class to me in reality.
Bertie might not have been the best snooker player, but he definitely had the best waistcoats!!