Former snooker star Silvino Francisco – who won the 1985 British Open – has died aged 78. The South African was a widely ...

Silvino Francisco, a South African snooker player who was prominent in the 1980s and was later jailed for three years for ...

Terry Griffiths won the World Championship in 1979, the Masters in 1980 and the UK Championship in 1982 Snooker legends Dennis Taylor, Stephen Hendry and Mark Williams were among more than 200 ...

Griffiths also won the Masters in 1980 and the UK Championship in 1982 to complete snooker's 'Triple Crown'. He also reached a career-high third in the world rankings, and in 2007 was made an OBE ...

South Africa's 1980s snooker favourite Silvino Francisco has died at the age of 78. He beat Alex Higgins en route to becoming ...

Francisco played at the Crucible for eight successive years from 1982, with the 1989 World Professional Snooker Championship proving to be his final appearance on snooker’s grandest stage.