![]() ![]() Due to an unusually high number of bets on the score line 10-2 in favour of White, betting on the match was suspended. The South African was banned from snooker for five years following an investigation into his 1985 World Championship match against Jimmy White. Silvino’s nephew Peter was also tarred with the match fixing brush. A year later he was sent to prison for smuggling cannabis. He was declared bankrupt in 1996 and earned a living working in a mate’s fish & chip shop. The 1985 British Open champion was arrested in 1989 over match fixing allegations, but was cleared of all charges. After the lurid stories were published he was fined £5,000 for bringing the game into disrepute. Lancastrian Knowles was a mainstay of the snooker circuit throughout the early eighties, but will be remembered for the saucy stories of his sexual exploits that he told to a tabloid newspaper in the 1983. Here’s our Top Ten bad boys of the baize. But over the years the game has had its fair share of wrong ‘uns. Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins was the original rebel and bad boy of snooker. ![]()
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