@custardtin It is not heartless to want the best person in any sport to win. You are being way too sentimental. This is competition at THE highest level and it may come as a bit of a revalation to you but not everybody wants the under-dog to win. Get a grip.
@custardtin at that level it is not ,as you put it , 'just a game. ' It ain't monopoly they are playing !! Just a game, you must be kidding. Not at that level it isn't. The world isn't necessarily a serious place either. maybe it's you who is taking things far too seriously.
Why did Davis get the stick he did, I really don't getit, for being a boring person, who knows if he's boring,didn't seem it in interviews or id it the inane ginger poking thing.
@26wordy - good point. On the after-dinner speech circuit, he enjoys playing on the 'boring' image for jokes. He was basically just so driven that he felt trying to be a personality would have effected his game.
@christschinwon I agree. Sportsman at the very top level are unbelievably driven and for them its winning or nothing. Think Woods, Senna , Hendry et al , they HATED to loose. They have so much confidence in their ability that they aren't bothered whether people think they have a likable personality or not.
@maureenOWW I know full well what a fluke is. He was aiming for that shot because there was a CHANCE it would fluke and he was hoping had he missed that it would.
@DLPBurke No-one else appears to agree with you. How many times have you won the world championship, exactly? Just so I know your experience and credentials, you know.
Davis in the 80's was head and shoulders above the rest of the field by a mile. He did lose occasionally usually in the best of 9 matches and bearing this in mind this was the first ranking tournement final defeat for him. He had made over 200 century breaks in competitive play, more than doubling the next players century haul. Comparing his style of play in the 80's to Stephen Hendry's in the 90's and you can see how snooker has evolved. But this was the 80's and nobody played the game better.
Wow I remember staying up late to watch these two titans electrify the snooker auditorium. I’m still having Goosebumps watching that that “black ball” LOL. That was quite a comeback for Dennis Taylor digging his way though and up to the top to clinch the title.
i watched the 25th annivarsery thing they did on this match , and sommit doesnt feel right about thi smatch , ok ill say it , i think things happend that shouldent have yes , FIXED as in from the steve davis camp side
just watched the reunion match on eurosport. Great stuff, good humour
Shame I was still in my mothers womb when this all happend in '85. My ma says she would always stay up til late, waiting for my dad to come home from work, watching the snooker even though she had no interest in the sport.
It's probably why I now have such a love for the game...
@saintcasper91 Yea. I looked it up & found an interview with Willie Thorne. Willie said Gary made a 134 break against him & won a few frames as well. Willie regards Gary as better than the club players. So looks like Gary isnt just a fan....he's also a player of a fairly advanced level.
Excellent video. Thanks for posting. I was a bit young to have watched it at the time. Obviously i've seen the ending many times, but i can't believe some of the other things i didnt know, such as Davis winning the first 8 frames. You can feel the tension just by watching this now!
@m214782 have you seen it ? I just saw it, and taylor performed the exact opposite of the match in 1985, haha. in this rematch he potted 3 black balls ; 2 perfect doubles, 1 longpot, and missed the grand last shot.
great too watch these 2 snookerlegends play again.
@Aeradill Haha, I saw the rematch too... Taylor potted every miss and misses every pot! I also noticed their commentaries were very similar to this video.
@lkfcalvin true, the whole davis thing walking in slomo to the table, feeling the hands were not his own, and his legs were carrying him.. same as 25 years back :P
@Aeradill : Saw it, in China! And Steve was right, not much of their dialogue was translated to Chinese. It was entertaining and brought back a lot of memories.
@m214782 lol. Just watched it and it was sooooo funny. Taylor could not miss a shot. They done both the doubles to show everyone what the shots were like and he potted the one in the middle and the double in the bottom left. lol
Seen it at one of the mid-session intervals. It was absolutely hilarious.
Dennis Taylor inadvertently potted all the crazy doubles he originally tried on the final black, then missed the final shot that gave him the title in '85...
I wanted Davis to win this final but I couldn't believe the bad lock he had in the later stages of ths match. Davis should have won 18-15 when he played a pressure shot on the green only to snooker himself behind the blue. If he had hit the blue half ball, the brown would have been on and the match won.
Seen this infamous final frame thousands of times on video & DVD - Question is,when are BBC/YouTube gonna upload the the Davis-Taylor sequel,which was the 1985 Rothmans Grand Prix Final - which also went to a decider!!
@dmtharpua It's because when he cued up to a ball wearing normal glasses, he could see over the top of them as he eyed up the pocket/ object ball and so it'd be out of focus. With these glasses everything was kept in focus no matter how low down he cued/ how far away the object ball/ pocket was.
Davis quote "The more I practise, the luckier I get". I was only young when my mum let me stay up for this. Even though I was 12, I could see how the media controls ppl. E.g why is jimmy white the ppls champ? Because we are told that he is. This match was 1985 but we are still in 1984 lol. -_-
Losing that final got him what he had never had before. Acceptance from the media and commentators. They were SO against him before that. (jealousy?) they always drew attention to any little bit of fortune. Taylor missed 2 doubles and it went safe. (fortuitous?) ev1 wanted him to lose, but now they love him. Aren't ppl sheep. Lol. Epic match though.
What is that upbeat music? I mean the music playing when Dennis Taylor wins the match? NOT tragedy, the song after that when he celebrates. What IS that?
The real reason Steve lost this one was because he got too complicated with his breakbuilding, trying to nudge his next red off the pack. The only one ever to do it and it worked brilliantly for eight frames but then it all went wrong. If it had worked I think it would have changed snooker forever.
@moneygob interesting point.........I never thought of it like that...i came in on a saturday evening and it was 8.0 and davis went to pot a green, clear up colours and win another frame...he missed and the rest was history as they say.....amazing...the beauty and drama of sport
Music in this video is absolute fucking SHIT. Fuck off to whoever made it. Otherwise, this is one of the best moments in snooker.. was watching it live in our living room as a little kid.
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This game was fixed. Davis purposely let Taylor win. Snooker would not have become as big as it got if Davis had just kept winning everything easily. Barry Hearn engineered the whole thing, and ended up making his fortune from snooker.
1. Your reading my comment. 2. Now your saying/thinking thats a stupid fact. 4. You didnt notice that i skipped 3. 5. Your checking it now. 6. Your smiling. 7. Your still reading my comment 8. You know all you have read is true. 10. You didnt notice that i skipped 9. 11. Your checking it now. 12. You didnt notice there are only 10 facts Copy and paste to 1 video, tomorrow will be your best day ever! no matter what
An often asked question,i reckon technically its impossible to split them but i think Davis was a better matchplay tactician and this would have given him the crucial advantage over "Fish Face", as my mum calls him...no idea where she got that from!!!
Anyone know anything about the movie they're making about this? Someone told me it's in pre-production with Brad Pitt as Dennis and Vinnie Jones as Davis.
Great end to the game, you couldn't write such a script, having it end with the deciding black ball of the deciding frame. I never realised Davis was 8-0 up from the first session.
I remember Davis building up a 8-0 lead but still felt he would slip in the 2nd session. He did and Davis looked a bag of nerves for the rest of the match, but he was so unlucky not to have won the match 18-15.
This was the second time Dennis Taylor made it to the final of the World championship. He first made it to the final in 1979 but he lost against Terry Griffiths
the best final. Davis concentrating on safety with the last black but taylor going for it - quality. But under that sort of pressure it wouldn't suprised me if taylor had missed that final black
Fecking researchers!...at least make sure ALL the incidental records you use are from the year in question to build up the atmosphere. 'Orinoco Flow' was from 1988 not 1985. Call me a nerd but it bugs me!
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Great vid - great story - but you really can't beat the uninterrupted version, with the magnificent Ted "Understated" Lowe commentary. Absolutely peerless.
"NO!" when Davis misses the cut, and " He's done it!" when Dennis - well, when Dennis does it.
You have to give Taylor huge credit, from 8-0, but if that green had gone in and 9-0 do you think Steve would have won it easily, 23 years ago today, the grand finale, the greatest grand finale got going
does anyone ave a clip of when dennis aylor and willie thorne are commentating and dennis falls over and grabs willies tie and nearly chokes him its so funny
22 years ago god bless us member it well sat up late willing taylor home. unbelievable srry for you steve.but man wanted higgns to kck your ass you was that good watching dennis comng back from 8-0 down.only one guy was supportng sorry steve.btw dont want to remind you most of us young folk run about for weeks after little finger up.:)
i so wih i had been alive to see that, it all looks so easy on tele, but then it's just so hard on the real thing! you wonder how large people like higgins and murphy stretch so much!
Docklands, Belfast, 00.05, Monday morning, late April 1985. A rap comes to the door. Of all times to be dragged away: who on earth can that be? It was the parish priest and his curate desperate to see the conclusion of that frame on our TV! Maybe divine intervention caused Steve to overcut the black after all.
Although i wanted Steve to win as an 11 year old kid....... i am now glad that Dennis won - a man who seized his moment - and deserved it. A truely brilliant sporting occasion.
you pot it no you pot it no you pot it no you pot it 5.33 says it all. Ohhh what were the odds...
kerrzo1971 1 week ago
RIP Dennis Taylor. Well loved and missed by all.
kgr00 3 months ago
@kgr00 He's still alive, isn't he?
dsriggs 3 months ago
@kgr00 hes not dead
poolmaster18 3 months ago
who put together this clip is pure genius. thanks a lot
lucabbbbb 3 months ago
Last song tragedy by the bee gees
jibberjabberr 6 months ago
Looks like Steve Davis has 4 YouTube accounts.
tehn00bpwn3r 8 months ago
Whoever wanted Davis to win is heartless.
Who wouldn't want the nice guy underdog to win?
custardtin 9 months ago
@custardtin It is not heartless to want the best person in any sport to win. You are being way too sentimental. This is competition at THE highest level and it may come as a bit of a revalation to you but not everybody wants the under-dog to win. Get a grip.
oneinamillion232 9 months ago
@oneinamillion232
And that's why I hate most sport fans.
They take these things WAY too seriously.
The world is a serious place and snooker is a game.
You get a grip.
custardtin 9 months ago
@custardtin at that level it is not ,as you put it , 'just a game. ' It ain't monopoly they are playing !! Just a game, you must be kidding. Not at that level it isn't. The world isn't necessarily a serious place either. maybe it's you who is taking things far too seriously.
oneinamillion232 9 months ago
Anyone think this match could have been a fix to regain public interest in snooker
jkamwal2 9 months ago
@jkamwal2 No. Not at all. You are just looking for a conspiracy
oneinamillion232 9 months ago
@oneinamillion232 No m8 i just heard someone mention it and wanted peoples opinions
jkamwal2 9 months ago
Great memories. I stayed up till 12.30am to watch the final frame. Real sporting drana.
RIP Ted Lowe.
postmanpat6 9 months ago
Why did Davis get the stick he did, I really don't getit, for being a boring person, who knows if he's boring,didn't seem it in interviews or id it the inane ginger poking thing.
26wordy 9 months ago
@26wordy - good point. On the after-dinner speech circuit, he enjoys playing on the 'boring' image for jokes. He was basically just so driven that he felt trying to be a personality would have effected his game.
christschinwon 9 months ago
@christschinwon I agree. Sportsman at the very top level are unbelievably driven and for them its winning or nothing. Think Woods, Senna , Hendry et al , they HATED to loose. They have so much confidence in their ability that they aren't bothered whether people think they have a likable personality or not.
oneinamillion232 9 months ago
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First song is
Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home
Second song is
Enya - "Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)"
Number 3 is
Talking Heads - "Road To Nowhere"
Number 4 is
Bee Gees - "Tragedy"
Buscemi1981 9 months ago
First song is Johnny Come Home by Fine Young Cannibals
Buscemi1981 9 months ago
Amazing glasses
mkipp271 11 months ago
STEVE DAVIS SHAGGED MOTHER
hearts76100 11 months ago
gw'aan the Nugget!
6anatolyy4 11 months ago
Give names of all songs please.
SnufferRyanair 1 year ago
music in 2:00 to 2:30 is ?
SnufferRyanair 1 year ago
@SnufferRyanair Orinoco Flow by Enya
boomyakasha 10 months ago
It's Orinoco flow enya my friend.
kwoodford123 1 year ago
what is the music playing in the background around @2:13 ?
buddyfan1959 1 year ago
@buddyfan1959 Orinoco flow by enya
redo121190 1 year ago
the greatest sporting moment of all time
carterj25 1 year ago 2
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he is so handsom and single but he is a father naneedj.info
harshanamanju 1 year ago
Davis owes me 5 quid from this.
widebody123 1 year ago
when a pro is actually aiming for flukes, they dont deserve to win.
DLPBurke 1 year ago
@DLPBurke If it's aimed for, then it's not a fluke. A fluke is unplanned.
maureenOWW 1 year ago
@maureenOWW I know full well what a fluke is. He was aiming for that shot because there was a CHANCE it would fluke and he was hoping had he missed that it would.
That is a bad pro.
DLPBurke 1 year ago
@DLPBurke No-one else appears to agree with you. How many times have you won the world championship, exactly? Just so I know your experience and credentials, you know.
maureenOWW 1 year ago
@maureenOWW and why exactly would that mean anything? How many have you won? idiot.
DLPBurke 1 year ago
Davis in the 80's was head and shoulders above the rest of the field by a mile. He did lose occasionally usually in the best of 9 matches and bearing this in mind this was the first ranking tournement final defeat for him. He had made over 200 century breaks in competitive play, more than doubling the next players century haul. Comparing his style of play in the 80's to Stephen Hendry's in the 90's and you can see how snooker has evolved. But this was the 80's and nobody played the game better.
ian1970byrne 1 year ago 2
How could snooker be any better!
angyankwong 1 year ago
Wow I remember staying up late to watch these two titans electrify the snooker auditorium. I’m still having Goosebumps watching that that “black ball” LOL. That was quite a comeback for Dennis Taylor digging his way though and up to the top to clinch the title.
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
amazing when you think,to win on the black after playing 35 frames.
goodolt70s 1 year ago
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fuck steve davis he's shit, dunno why every1 goes on about him...
pistolpeeroy 1 year ago
25 years passed but still my heart beats doubles by watching this video
gokhalesh1 1 year ago 3
FUSS OVER NOTHING!
Zeziamdg 1 year ago
OMG THE BEST FINAL!
TomekLeeChan 1 year ago
i watched the 25th annivarsery thing they did on this match , and sommit doesnt feel right about thi smatch , ok ill say it , i think things happend that shouldent have yes , FIXED as in from the steve davis camp side
improm2u 1 year ago
greatest match ever. still think davis should have got that pot. so pleased for Taylor. amazing stuff.
SuperEverton1976 1 year ago
just watched the reunion match on eurosport. Great stuff, good humour
Shame I was still in my mothers womb when this all happend in '85. My ma says she would always stay up til late, waiting for my dad to come home from work, watching the snooker even though she had no interest in the sport.
It's probably why I now have such a love for the game...
legbreakgoogly 1 year ago
Today BBC is showing the 85' black ball final documentary. Could someone upload it somewhere? Unfortunately I can't see BBC here :(
Would appreciate it !
kmwww 1 year ago
My goodness! Was that Gary Lineker in there too?? I Didnt know he was a snooker enthusiast/fan as well.
jbdoggy 1 year ago 3
@jbdoggy Yes,apparently he's made a century break
saintcasper91 1 year ago
@saintcasper91 Yea. I looked it up & found an interview with Willie Thorne. Willie said Gary made a 134 break against him & won a few frames as well. Willie regards Gary as better than the club players. So looks like Gary isnt just a fan....he's also a player of a fairly advanced level.
jbdoggy 1 year ago
2:15 can anyone name the track? thanks
21gherkin 1 year ago
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@21gherkin Enya - Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)
wolferased 1 year ago
great final x
ellsthorne20 1 year ago
ha lol
joelangan 1 year ago
great vid - great game
Os90 1 year ago
Cudowna gra na czarnej. Ten pojedynek to snookerowa poezja.
CZART65 1 year ago 19
legends
GotToGrow 1 year ago
Going for a fluke highlights the severe flaw in the rules here
DLPBurke 1 year ago
Excellent video. Thanks for posting. I was a bit young to have watched it at the time. Obviously i've seen the ending many times, but i can't believe some of the other things i didnt know, such as Davis winning the first 8 frames. You can feel the tension just by watching this now!
TVJustSmile 1 year ago
The second greatest event that year was Live Aid.
heimdallhinfrode 1 year ago
Bljampy Q2 :D
kelt10 1 year ago
Davis and Taylor are playing a 25 year anniversary exhibition match at this year's World Championship. =)
m214782 1 year ago 29
@m214782 WOW really? Cool man! When is gonna happen?
slug182 1 year ago
@m214782 have you seen it ? I just saw it, and taylor performed the exact opposite of the match in 1985, haha. in this rematch he potted 3 black balls ; 2 perfect doubles, 1 longpot, and missed the grand last shot.
great too watch these 2 snookerlegends play again.
Aeradill 1 year ago
@Aeradill Haha, I saw the rematch too... Taylor potted every miss and misses every pot! I also noticed their commentaries were very similar to this video.
lkfcalvin 1 year ago
@lkfcalvin true, the whole davis thing walking in slomo to the table, feeling the hands were not his own, and his legs were carrying him.. same as 25 years back :P
Aeradill 1 year ago
@Aeradill : Saw it, in China! And Steve was right, not much of their dialogue was translated to Chinese. It was entertaining and brought back a lot of memories.
peterlaikc 1 year ago
@m214782 just watched it very good and was a good laugh
curtisfawcett 1 year ago
@m214782 lol. Just watched it and it was sooooo funny. Taylor could not miss a shot. They done both the doubles to show everyone what the shots were like and he potted the one in the middle and the double in the bottom left. lol
csrfc1873 1 year ago
@m214782 ye i saw the exhibition mathc where they reanacted ti , one of the funniest things ever
TheAdamocovicProject 1 year ago
@m214782 I just saw it
it was so funny lol
fleetingray 1 year ago
Seen it at one of the mid-session intervals. It was absolutely hilarious.
Dennis Taylor inadvertently potted all the crazy doubles he originally tried on the final black, then missed the final shot that gave him the title in '85...
KD555 1 year ago 2
orinoco flow and intense build up to the final black -> simply epic.
SwampyQ2 1 year ago
I wanted Davis to win this final but I couldn't believe the bad lock he had in the later stages of ths match. Davis should have won 18-15 when he played a pressure shot on the green only to snooker himself behind the blue. If he had hit the blue half ball, the brown would have been on and the match won.
ian1970byrne 1 year ago
Seen this infamous final frame thousands of times on video & DVD - Question is,when are BBC/YouTube gonna upload the the Davis-Taylor sequel,which was the 1985 Rothmans Grand Prix Final - which also went to a decider!!
CHRISK5STAR 1 year ago
why did Dennis use such huge glasses ?
dmtharpua 1 year ago
@dmtharpua It's because when he cued up to a ball wearing normal glasses, he could see over the top of them as he eyed up the pocket/ object ball and so it'd be out of focus. With these glasses everything was kept in focus no matter how low down he cued/ how far away the object ball/ pocket was.
cymru1991 1 year ago 2
interesting. thanks @cymru
dmtharpua 1 year ago
@dmtharpua he cant play snooker with small glasses, get it?
tosykosyhaha 7 months ago
Davis quote "The more I practise, the luckier I get". I was only young when my mum let me stay up for this. Even though I was 12, I could see how the media controls ppl. E.g why is jimmy white the ppls champ? Because we are told that he is. This match was 1985 but we are still in 1984 lol. -_-
Grayey27 2 years ago
Losing that final got him what he had never had before. Acceptance from the media and commentators. They were SO against him before that. (jealousy?) they always drew attention to any little bit of fortune. Taylor missed 2 doubles and it went safe. (fortuitous?) ev1 wanted him to lose, but now they love him. Aren't ppl sheep. Lol. Epic match though.
Grayey27 2 years ago
What is that upbeat music? I mean the music playing when Dennis Taylor wins the match? NOT tragedy, the song after that when he celebrates. What IS that?
Elfstones9 2 years ago
That song is "When the going gets tough" by Billy Ocean.
gernermouse 2 years ago
Billy Ocean.......... When the going gets tough the tough get going........is the song being played at the end
peterirvin606 1 year ago
billy ocean when the going gets tiugh the tough get going
peterirvin606 1 year ago
The real reason Steve lost this one was because he got too complicated with his breakbuilding, trying to nudge his next red off the pack. The only one ever to do it and it worked brilliantly for eight frames but then it all went wrong. If it had worked I think it would have changed snooker forever.
moneygob 2 years ago
@moneygob interesting point.........I never thought of it like that...i came in on a saturday evening and it was 8.0 and davis went to pot a green, clear up colours and win another frame...he missed and the rest was history as they say.....amazing...the beauty and drama of sport
Indul1 1 year ago
any way of downloading full match?
kurcobolja 2 years ago
What a shot at 3:03 !!!! WHOA!!
PercentZero 2 years ago
A GREAT GAME! cant wait to watch the full game!!
formyfor 2 years ago
I think this video is from 2004
Visonu 2 years ago
Probably there will EVER be!!
Mrphilharmonic 2 years ago
The best final ever in Snooker history!
landman1973 2 years ago
Music in this video is absolutely PERFECT. Well done to whoever made it.
rexbonitas 2 years ago
the bbc made it lol
ArsenalTomas 2 years ago
I know... I was using irony to respond to an earlier - rather ignorant and foul mouthed - comment about 3 down from here.
rexbonitas 2 years ago
i agree very good choice of music usually ppl put stupid music on vids
irishsmurf2008 2 years ago
they called him intresting because he always intresting snooker
dim432 2 years ago
Music in this video is absolute fucking SHIT. Fuck off to whoever made it. Otherwise, this is one of the best moments in snooker.. was watching it live in our living room as a little kid.
HienoKaveri 2 years ago
BBC made the vid
billabongodrum 2 years ago
Agreed. the use of Tragedy by Steps completely ruins the sense of occasion.
TonyBananas101 2 years ago
I think you'll find that it's the original Bee Gees version.
kisbie 2 years ago
What dick chose the Enya song to accompany this clip: it didn't come out till a few years later! And it's bloody annoying
NZnumpty69 2 years ago
even a blind cock called dennis could find a corn .........
BarneveldDarts 2 years ago
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This game was fixed. Davis purposely let Taylor win. Snooker would not have become as big as it got if Davis had just kept winning everything easily. Barry Hearn engineered the whole thing, and ended up making his fortune from snooker.
MrDemolitionMan 2 years ago
hey...is there everybody who know the name of the song in this vid?
thx
BlackDoll0708 2 years ago
Johnny Come Home by Fine Young Cannibals
ahacarl 2 years ago
oricana flow by enya
tezza368 2 years ago
1. Johnny Come Home - Fine Young Canniballs
2. Enya - Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)
3. Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
4. BeeGees - Tragedy
5. Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough
StephenHendry123 2 years ago 5
That shot was not easy!
lemonite1 2 years ago
We'll never see another final like this. The 85 final was "the" classic. It was so dramatic. The final frame, the final black ;)
pockings 2 years ago 2
Imagine if there was betting in play back in 1985! What price Dennis after that first session?
alfriendo2008 2 years ago
What a great match, what a golden moment of sports history! Great documentary too! What's the song from 1:32 on?
kurcobolja 2 years ago 2
Orinoco Flow by Enya
kisbie 2 years ago
<3 Enya
Richiepookinshoo 2 years ago
Unbelievable final, brilliant stuff.
PattAdz 2 years ago 2
DarkNinjaO1 2 years ago
1. No-one cares
2. Kill yourself
Richiepookinshoo 2 years ago
fuck u
DarkNinjaO1 2 years ago
Fuck YOU.
Richiepookinshoo 2 years ago
i was just sayin that this was a great final and many people agreed with me so if you dont agree fuck u and go suck ur dad off!
DarkNinjaO1 2 years ago
Bullshit, you copy/pasted fucking spam into the comments. Go look.
Richiepookinshoo 2 years ago
Look below this comment:
i clearly say:
greatest final ever, did you know that 18 million people stayed up until 1 am to watch this final?
DarkNinjaO1 2 years ago
greatest final ever, did you know that 18 million people stayed up until 1 am to watch this final?
DarkNinjaO1 2 years ago 6
@DarkNinjaO1 And I was one of them!
thechessstick 1 year ago
@DarkNinjaO1 yep even me and i was only 7 :oD
CarpMagic95 1 year ago
Great memories, before the invasion of Hendry and even worse, his clones (Doherty, Higgins etc...)
neilus 2 years ago
hendry will beat davis anyday
MrSportexpert 2 years ago
An often asked question,i reckon technically its impossible to split them but i think Davis was a better matchplay tactician and this would have given him the crucial advantage over "Fish Face", as my mum calls him...no idea where she got that from!!!
neilus 2 years ago
Anyone know anything about the movie they're making about this? Someone told me it's in pre-production with Brad Pitt as Dennis and Vinnie Jones as Davis.
ArtieBoy1980 2 years ago 2
you're having a laugh right?
JackDavis16 2 years ago
Is John Williams doing the musical score?? lol
SamH96 2 years ago 2
good for dennis, very likeable guy, and those glasses still make me chuckle :)
johnisfun 2 years ago
LOL JOKER with the finger up :D Steve davis man he was truly invincible in his days haha
ace666999 2 years ago
Great end to the game, you couldn't write such a script, having it end with the deciding black ball of the deciding frame. I never realised Davis was 8-0 up from the first session.
swaddon1903 2 years ago
How couldn't you write it?
Basically every fictional sports story would end with it coming down to the last thing possible.
I think if anyone was asked to make up a tense snooker match, it would obviously come down to the last black in the last frame.
0utsideSpace 2 years ago
I think he means, if you did write it, no-one would believe it. You know, truth is stranger than fiction.
Fantastic final by any measure.
hiswayornoway 2 years ago
greatest moment in snooker ever..
dkdynamik 2 years ago
I'm surprised that Gary Lineker didn't remember this famous memorable final
Visonu 2 years ago
I like Dennis, but I think he got lucky in this game. Steve should of gone 9 and 10 nil up. Then he would've won 18-3.
StephenHendry123 2 years ago
My mum was six months pregnant when this happened before giving birth to me
Visonu 2 years ago
yeah and?
johnisfun 2 years ago
I'm saying six months before I was born
Visonu 2 years ago
I remember Davis building up a 8-0 lead but still felt he would slip in the 2nd session. He did and Davis looked a bag of nerves for the rest of the match, but he was so unlucky not to have won the match 18-15.
ian1970byrne 2 years ago
At 1.07, that song is Orinoco flow by Enya and at 7.00 it is when the going gets tough by Billy Ocean
Visonu 2 years ago
This was the second time Dennis Taylor made it to the final of the World championship. He first made it to the final in 1979 but he lost against Terry Griffiths
Visonu 3 years ago
This has to be one of the greatest sporting moments of all time.
vemarstar09 3 years ago 3
i have a friend named dennis taylor lol thats why i looked this up
downtasmoke12 3 years ago
David Vine is dead
Visonu 3 years ago
dennis taylor is a fighter...two great players..
queenstar 3 years ago
The song that starts at 7.00 was `played on some BBC1 continuity clips from 1989 that have been uploaded here.
Visonu 3 years ago
This is certainly one of snooker's most famous memorable moments.
Visonu 3 years ago
Steve Davis is a great player! What a sportsman! Dennis must have had nerves of steal to catch up from 8-0 :)
NickStriker 3 years ago
the best final. Davis concentrating on safety with the last black but taylor going for it - quality. But under that sort of pressure it wouldn't suprised me if taylor had missed that final black
VirgLondon 3 years ago
i know it's rude to ask this kind of question at this magnificent video, but what's the name of the song?
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LucThePresident 3 years ago
Fecking researchers!...at least make sure ALL the incidental records you use are from the year in question to build up the atmosphere. 'Orinoco Flow' was from 1988 not 1985. Call me a nerd but it bugs me!
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lanceZ 3 years ago
Great vid - great story - but you really can't beat the uninterrupted version, with the magnificent Ted "Understated" Lowe commentary. Absolutely peerless.
"NO!" when Davis misses the cut, and " He's done it!" when Dennis - well, when Dennis does it.
Magical stuff.
mozam76 3 years ago 3
You have to give Taylor huge credit, from 8-0, but if that green had gone in and 9-0 do you think Steve would have won it easily, 23 years ago today, the grand finale, the greatest grand finale got going
01LOWSONM 3 years ago 4
Brilliant vid!
ANDYSAFC85 3 years ago
incredible match, just incredible
... and i love the glasses
kosjmar 3 years ago 5
does anyone ave a clip of when dennis aylor and willie thorne are commentating and dennis falls over and grabs willies tie and nearly chokes him its so funny
jamielangley4ever 3 years ago
dam i wish i was born for this match
wolftonejr 3 years ago
these are by far the most ugliest glasses i have
ever seen. xD but the match was reaaaally exciting, i wish, i had have seen this..
KingOfBug 3 years ago
just bumped my head on wardrobe watchng that missed double. effng shot. nce attempt dennis
danbit5 4 years ago
22 years ago god bless us member it well sat up late willing taylor home. unbelievable srry for you steve.but man wanted higgns to kck your ass you was that good watching dennis comng back from 8-0 down.only one guy was supportng sorry steve.btw dont want to remind you most of us young folk run about for weeks after little finger up.:)
danbit5 4 years ago
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I wonder if it was rigged...
jmc8197 4 years ago
You really think they can make something like that up?
JohnnyMarvin 4 years ago 3
It wasn't! Okay?
FootballMad0604 3 years ago
i so wih i had been alive to see that, it all looks so easy on tele, but then it's just so hard on the real thing! you wonder how large people like higgins and murphy stretch so much!
emosexrox 4 years ago
this was the best final i've ever seen
taylor deserved to win
Skelex20 4 years ago
Hey guys, what is the name of the song played during the last great black?
Thanks
PS: great match!
Lecrob3 4 years ago
Videoclip soundtrack:
1. Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home
2. Enya - Orinoco Flow
3. Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
4. Bee Gees - Tragedy
5. Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
Hope this helps.
Best final ever!
KD555 4 years ago 6
best game in da world
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raymondtlk1 4 years ago 3
Crumbs, I remember this. Snooker was huge for a couple of years - snooker and darts. Don't know why. Perhaps it was the people.
lamancha2 4 years ago
Docklands, Belfast, 00.05, Monday morning, late April 1985. A rap comes to the door. Of all times to be dragged away: who on earth can that be? It was the parish priest and his curate desperate to see the conclusion of that frame on our TV! Maybe divine intervention caused Steve to overcut the black after all.
bigpad69 4 years ago
Although i wanted Steve to win as an 11 year old kid....... i am now glad that Dennis won - a man who seized his moment - and deserved it. A truely brilliant sporting occasion.
RICHIEBSQUI 4 years ago 3