Snooker

Legends of Welsh Sport - Doug Mountjoy: The Comeback Man
Pleasant half-hour which might conceivably be on iPlayer or somewhere. The ex-miner whose world championship dreams were crushed by Steve Davis, but did rebound to thwart a teenage Stephen Hendry at the UK Championship. All the players involved had fond views, even Hendry. In his latter years, it seems he spent 2 hours a day playing snooker at Mark Williams' club, regular as clockwork.

^ Just watched it on iPlayer.
Got me right in the gut .
He truly was a lovely man and a stylish cueist.
Achieved far more in the sport than a lot of folk might think.
So sad he is no longer with us anymore.

My dad's nickname used to be Mountjoy because of his sideburns. Those were the days, when sideburns were in fashion.

I remember the 1980 World Championship and my whole family were willing Mountjoy come back against Davis, and he got within a couple of frames a couple of times but didn't quite manage it. I also remember when Mountjoy won the UK Championship and my family and I were expecting Stephen Hendry to go up a gear at anytime and surge to victory. But the comeback never came and Mountjoy surged to victory. I think if he didn't suffer from pleurisy he would have won a lot more titles than he did.

When I was starting to follow Snooker in the late 80s, Doug Mountjoy was a player I took to. I certainly wouldn't have bestowed an unflattering nickname upon him

Nor did we bestow an unflattering nickname on Doug Mountjoy, we bestowed a very flattering nickname to my dad though