Eight times snooker stars turned into bad boys - from vile rants to cocaine binges
dailystar.co.uksnooker has cultivated a reputation for being a gentleman's sport, numerous players have proved even the 'good' games have their share of bad boys.Stars usually follow a strict code of guidelines around the table, but there are some who have demonstrated the gloves are off after the pre-match niceties.
Others reserve their controversy for outside the competition, with personal demons often obscuring their achievements on the baize.The sport's sanctity is once again in the news after Star Sport revealed messages from world No.
21 Matthew Selt referring to a fan—who, it turns out, is autistic—as a "mong." He's not the only player to have sullied the good name of the sport at one time or another down the years, as the players below know all too well...Numerous snooker stars saw their careers blighted by drugs or alcohol (or both), but Jimmy White is perhaps the sport's most infamous example of addiction.
The six-time World Championship runner-up is often regarded as the best player never to have won snooker's greatest honour, though he did clinch both the Masters (1984) and the UK Championship (1992).'The Whirlwind'—who still plays at age 59—accomplished all that despite his addiction to alcohol and cocaine, admitting he's spent "hundreds of thousands" on the Class A drug.
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