Tag: snooker

John Higgins cleared of match-fixing

https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/8973869.stm

It increasingly looks to me  like newspapers are trying to get stories out of sportsmen by setting them up to talk about match fixing. Despite the fact Higgins never did fix anything, it did a lot of damage to him and snooker. His guilt it appears, is not to report the incident.

I suppose the decent thing to come out of this is that sports men and women will be very nervous about meeting strangers or even contemplating meeting …