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So sad.

I used to enjoy watching snooker as a kid and remember him well. I haven't watched snooker in a very long time but I don't think you get the same colourful characters as you did back in the 80s like Hurricane Higgins and Whirlwind White etc. Similar with tennis.

RIP Willie
Was sad to read this, as was my son. Haven't watched snooker in a long time but remember the old names - The Grinder was one of my son's favourites.
09.53 ich, i totally agree.
Same topic: anybody remember Bill Werbeniuk? Was that a slight exaggeration about him having to drink 15pints to steady his nerves?
Anne - think he fell on hard times and the main culprit was gambling.
Sad news indeed - RIP Willie.
piggy - I don't remember the quantity but Bill certainly used to drink lager to steady his nerves.
piggy
much, much more than that.

From his Wikipedia entry:

Werbeniuk was noted for the copious amounts of alcohol he consumed before and during matches – at least six pints before a match and then one pint for each frame. In total, he drank between 40 and 50 pints of lager per day.[1][3] Doctors advised Werbeniuk to drink alcohol to counteract a familial benign essential tremor.[4] Later in his career he also took propranolol, a beta blocker, to cope with the effects of his alcohol consumption on his heart.[5]

Bill was also famously reported in the UK tabloid press as successfully claiming the cost of 6 pints of lager before every match as a tax deductible expense.[2]

Some of Werbeniuk's most famous feats of drinking include: 76 cans of lager during a game with John Spencer in Australia in the 1970s;[1] 43 pints of lager in a snooker match/drinking contest against Scotsman Eddie Sinclair in which, after Sinclair had passed out following his 42nd pint, Werbeniuk was reported to say "I'm away to the bar now for a proper drink";[6] 28 pints of lager and 16 whiskies over the course of 11 frames during a match against Nigel Bond, in January 1990 – after which Werbeniuk then consumed an entire bottle of Scotch to "drown his sorrows" after losing the match.[1]
Rest easy, Willie !
RIP Willie.
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R.i.P Willie you deserved a bigger break than 66.
i have never liked john virgo ,
i have said so many times on here,
so am i being a hypocrite when i say i am sad to see the state he is in now?i would not wish that on anybody.
John Virgo had a gambling problem, he is currently planning to open a Vegan Cafe in Salford.

Please do not take the above link as a genuine News source - it's a spoof.
PMSL
I can't be the only person who knows that the Evening Harold is a spoof newspaper.

So if BW allegedly drank that much during a competion. What was he like when he went on a bender?
Piggynose, If my memory is correct Bill Werbeniuk drank bottles of lager, not pints.
Google it Danny and you'll see quite a few images of Bill drinking his lager from a barrel glass.
Oh so dannyk13 drinking bottles instead of pints makes all the difference.

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