Griffiths' victories at the 1980 Masters and 1982 UK Championship mean he is one of only 11 players to have completed snooker's Triple Crown.

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 ...

Renowned for his slow and methodical style of play, Griffiths was one of the most recognizable figures in British sport during snooker’s heyday in the late 1970s and 1980s. The undoubted ...

Clive Everton, who has died aged 87, was a snooker commentator during the golden era of the game in the 1980s, and became the BBC’s lead man in the 1990s after the retirement of “whispering ...

Snooker was a hugely popular TV sport in the 1980s, peaking in 1985 when an audience of nearly 20 million stayed up past midnight to watch Dennis Taylor beat Steve Davis on the last black ball of ...

He then became one of 11 players to complete snooker’s Triple Crown by also winning the Masters (1980) and UK Championship (1982).

Terry Griffiths, a Welsh snooker player who won the world championship as a qualifier and later became a coach to top players like Stephen Hendry and Mark Williams, has died. He was 77.