|
Post by thehartshillbadger on Jul 20, 2024 11:37:36 GMT
|
|
|
Post by crouchpotato1 on Jul 20, 2024 11:40:47 GMT
Sad news that is,he was a very good player in his day and a lovely bloke as well. RIP Ray
|
|
|
Post by mrcoke on Jul 20, 2024 11:41:27 GMT
Deepest condolences to all his loved ones. RIP
A true gentleman.
A former Stoke policeman.
|
|
|
Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 20, 2024 11:42:55 GMT
Very sorry to hear this. RIP Ray.
|
|
|
Post by cobhamstokey on Jul 20, 2024 11:49:15 GMT
RIP Ray. One of the greats from snooker and a lovely guy too.
|
|
|
Post by andystokey on Jul 20, 2024 12:06:27 GMT
Very sad, lucky enough to have met him and watch him play locally. A true gentleman.
|
|
|
Post by frasier37 on Jul 20, 2024 12:06:56 GMT
RIP and God bless Ray. He saw me sitting around and taught me how to play bar billiards at the tyremens club on the hill next to shelton bar many years back. Oh how my dad wanted to pay more attention to me then ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/800541/images/kwfoKwtHI0jglJZ4qZf6.gif)
|
|
|
Post by Orbs on Jul 20, 2024 12:17:33 GMT
91 - decent break. Lived in Werrington too. Always seemed like a lovely fella. A proper gentle-man.
RIP Ray
|
|
|
Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Jul 20, 2024 12:25:56 GMT
A great guy. I'm pretty sure my mum looked after one or two of his kids at some point.
Here's an amazing story from Ray himself about getting trapped down a mine in Stoke-on-Trent:
|
|
|
Post by Huddysleftfoot on Jul 20, 2024 12:27:09 GMT
Sad news...adopted Stokie and a gentleman. RIP.
|
|
|
Post by Huddysleftfoot on Jul 20, 2024 12:41:06 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Orbs on Jul 20, 2024 12:44:09 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Huddysleftfoot on Jul 20, 2024 12:44:47 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Rednwhitenblue on Jul 20, 2024 13:32:47 GMT
Shame, 91 good age and a cracking life. Always liked him.
|
|
|
Post by deeside2 on Jul 20, 2024 16:09:13 GMT
One of the all time greats of snooker. Always seemed to be a really nice person and a true gentleman.
RIP Ray.
|
|
|
Post by raythesailor on Jul 20, 2024 16:19:43 GMT
Met him when we were both going through a doorway, at the same time, in opposite directions, at Churston Golf Club Devon.
We both smiled and gave way to each other. Thought I recognised the face but took me a few seconds to put a name to it.
RIP Ray
|
|
|
Post by milton58 on Jul 20, 2024 17:25:10 GMT
Proper bloke worked down the pit then old bill then world snooker champion very mixed life
|
|
|
Post by J-Roar on Jul 20, 2024 17:48:00 GMT
Sad day. I remember my nan and grandad telling me what a great laugh he was when they saw him out and about.
Did he really have a snooker table down the pit or is that just a myth?
|
|
|
Post by dirtygary69 on Jul 20, 2024 18:25:42 GMT
RIP Ray. An adopted Stokie for sure. Remember my grandad, almost proud, always telling us about him and his life when he popped up on tele in the 90’s. They lived near to Florence colliery too, almost like they felt some kind of familiarity with him.
|
|
|
Post by pretzel on Jul 20, 2024 19:17:14 GMT
When I was doing my ceramics diploma at the Polytech in Stoke, a mate and me would often disappear at lunch to get a frame in at The Midland Snooker club in Hanley. On one occasion, we had cleaned up the reds and I'd left the blue tight up against the bottom cushion with the white behind the baulk line. I lined up the most ridiculous thin cut to try and finish the game (as we were already late for some enthralling lesson like colloids and rheology), when I sensed someone walking behind me. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted that the person had stopped and was waiting for me to take my shot, so with little regard for safety of the white I just whacked it as hard as I could and defying all laws of physics and etiquette, I cut the blue so finely that it just about had enough legs to creep along the cushion and fell into the corner pocket. I turned around to my mate with my fist in the air as if I'd done this a hundred times before, only to see that the mystery figure behind me was Ray Reardon himself. I smiled awkwardly and he just tutted, rolled his eyes and walked off ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/800541/images/kwfoKwtHI0jglJZ4qZf6.gif)
|
|
|
Post by maninasuitcase on Jul 20, 2024 19:18:50 GMT
RIP Dracula. 🧛♂️
|
|
|
Post by mrcoke on Jul 20, 2024 19:27:58 GMT
|
|
|
Post by andystokey on Jul 20, 2024 20:03:27 GMT
Willie Thorne on the right
|
|
|
Post by thehartshillbadger on Jul 20, 2024 20:11:48 GMT
Willie Thorne on the right Is it Doug Mountjoy on the left?
|
|
|
Post by andystokey on Jul 20, 2024 20:33:11 GMT
|
|
|
Post by J-Roar on Jul 20, 2024 20:34:59 GMT
Willie Thorne on the right Is it Doug Mountjoy on the left? Phillip Seymour Hoffman on the left.
|
|
|
Post by Huddysleftfoot on Jul 21, 2024 7:05:31 GMT
|
|
|
Post by telfordstoke on Jul 21, 2024 19:54:23 GMT
RIP Ray, a genuinely nice man, remember my mum thinking the world of him and watching Pot Black and the Worlds on tv. Talented,humble and an engaging speaker and a sad loss
|
|
|
Post by thehartshillbadger on Jul 21, 2024 19:55:57 GMT
Was he ever on Big Break? What a show that was
|
|
|
Post by Orbs on Jul 21, 2024 20:48:49 GMT
|
|