Doug Mountjoy, Terry Griffiths, Ray Reardon and Cliff Wilson Play Snooker on a hillside in Tredegar.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- The Green Green Baize - Snooker documentary from 1982 featuring the top four Welsh professional players - Doug Mountjoy, Ray Reardon, Terry Griffiths and Cliff Wilson playing snooker including a match on a hillside in Tredegar.
Lovely time to watch this great programme after the sad passing of Ray Reardon last week. 😢 Tel, stay sfrong mate. We're all thinking of you. ❤
Love everything about this. Wish I could go back to the late 70's \ early 80's and just stay there! Simpler times and all the better for it.
If you find a way, please get me a one-way ticket!😂
Strikes, dead bodies piled in the streets in the Winter of Discontent, dog shit on your shoes, cars that always break down and power cuts...
@@Eat-MyGoal much much fewer immigrants though
Great program, the simpler days, great snooker players, lots of laughs, class all the way.
RIP Ray Reardon great player & always a gentlemen.
fantastic, you won't see this kind of thing on tv these days
Nah, not woke enough!!!
Absolutely brilliant had such fun watching this the very good old days you can't beat them
Wish they would repeat these documentaries on ITV4.
Great archive footage ,I grew up in the 70s and 80s , and snooker was a massive part of it,...with the likes of Davis, Reardon , Higgins Griffith's , white , mount joy .thorburn , Spencer , Taylor and others .....and my belief the 1980s was the golden era of snooker, ..it was a great time
The top 16 was the benchmark of high quslity at the time in the 70's ans 80's.
But is not the benchmark in terms of high quality compared with all other decades since. The names of the 70's and 80's it is impossible to claim that almost all of them would make up all of the top 16's of all later decades had they came along 2 or 3 decades later.
STEPHEN LEE watched this and saw they has had to walk up a hill to play snooker… he had a heart attack just thinking about it!
Meet all these guys over the years.
And Cliff Wilson was the best exhibition player I ever watched he could pot a ball off the lampshade.
I played county snooker great memory’s and from the pro am days in North Wales
RIP Doug and Cliff
Memories not memory's.
Just saying 😁 👍
@@Ytnzy250 I feel so enlightened thank you
@@Ytnzy250 Just saying. Just saying.
I finally watched this in full and what a great watch it was (adverts included). The music used early on and towards the end of the programme was also used in The Sweeney episode with Patrick Mower and George Layton "Trojan Bus". Would be great to see you back Webfax soon with some more rare uploads. All the best
You have a great memory, The Sweeney, those were the days!
The adverts really got me in the feels there. I remember when local companies could afford to have short TV ads, you just don't see that any more. Sad times.
Brilliant entertainment with 4 proud legends of the game .rest in peace ray
18 quid for a worktop in the advert lol what a Magnificat documentary showing the grass routes of snooker in the valleys ! These guys were lucky to come out the mines , proper men !
That was fantastic to watch what nice guys you can see they all close mates ..happy times for them ..thanks for this made my day .
A brilliant piece of TV
Simply brilliant documentary, so lovely and made with so much love for the Welsh and how good the nation is at the great game of Snooker.
Just a delightful documentary highlighting snooker , when characters and friendly rivalry was part of the game ...to see the fun and banter between the Welsh legends of the game, not taking themselves seriously is wonderful and . so entertaining,......their infectious humour duly enriched the game we all love,...working class people enjoying the game and the banter with the audience.......a delight ...when the money was modest , but the love of the game greater...better times
Cliff Wilson seemed to be a big character, very funny man. Bet he could've been one of the greats had he not stopped playing in his 20s/30s
What a brilliant film. The adverts weren't bad either!
Good old cliff Wilson made me laugh many years ago when he was just about to play cliff thorburn the commentator said to him what tactics will you use in the match and he said I'll just play my normal game but I'll make sure to take a good book with me lol
Thorburn mentioned that comment in his book "Playing for keeps." He didn't see the funny side of it and said Wilson should maybe concentrate on his own game, etc.
RIP DOUG
My favourite...
Lovely to see the spirit of humour in Welsh snooker as it was. Lovely seeing alwyn who was a good friend.i remember the betting ashtrays full of money bets. Atmosphere was amazing.
Life can be so beautiful especially if we help those that need it.
Cliff Wilson; "I wish you wouldn't play whilst I was talking!"😅
Ray Reardon is one of the few people in this programme still alive!
Terry Griffiths is still around.
Doesn't he live in a castle somewhere?
@@edmundpower1250 Transylvania, it explains why he seems so young.
@@nichallam174 vangs for the info
@@edmundpower1250 Never a hair out of place with Terry.
Between 1969 and 1982 there was a Welshman in the World Snooker Championship Final and incredible 10 times out of 14 finals.
What an amazing statistic! Just shows how powerful Welsh snooker was during the Golden Age!
Very good. Gary Owen, Reardon, Terry and Doug.
Really enjoyed watching this, wow spent a lot of years while growing up in Wales (every summer holidays) and I've always been a massive snooker fan. Thank you for sharing
This is quite enjoyable
Very good , thank you for posting.
Just magic. Fantastic days.
What an endearing documentary from a bygone era. Lovely to watch. Thanks! (I remember a number of those ads too! My goodness weren't things cheap!? ;-)
Great...thanks for posting...only ever seen a few min clip of them playing in field🤣👍👍👍
The adverts were great especially the woman almost dying in the chip pan fire.
Wales..where men are men and sheep are scared..RIP Doug Mountjoy he really was a fine player
My local sheep aren"t scared..........they"re used to me now :)
@@ccmogs5757 great comment!👌😂😂
Peter Sharkey.
An infantile comment from an infantile child. Grow up sonny your children will need to respect t you.
Oh I'm so upset..me being called infantile..boo hoo
He was, unfortunately he probably turned pro a bit late just as Davis came on the scene
Better days... we talked to each other and were not afraid to offend each other.
These old adverts great stuff
Rip Ray Reardon❤
Really enjoyed that thanks for up loading
Thanks for a great upload, that was brilliant 👍
All great snooker players make the game look easy when there in the form I've noticed.
Except peter ebdon
I can see why Ray Reardon alongside Alex Higgins was the biggest draw for exhibitions back in the 70's.
Love the adverts
Really enjoyed that cheers mate.👍👍
FANTASTIC video!
I've never used caps lock on a youtube comment before!
👍👍
9:08 - nice to see Robert DeNiro in the audience... 🙂
Cliff Wilson was a great player. Sure he had a renaissance in early 90s?
He had some good wins in the 80s and beat a young Ronnie O'Sullivan 9-8 in the UK Championship in Ronnie's first full season. Ronnie showed him no respect and led 4-1. Cliff Wilson was a bit riled by this and came back to win the match.
Clouds of smoke in the auditorium and advertising for beer on TV, different world.
That Cliff dude is funny. Telling Dracula he's dead .😂
four greats
R.I.P Doug Mountjoy
Miss Mclusky would get it on the American Express ad😜
Haha she would. I'd give it to her in the back office of Harlech Ceramics
Amazing luck to get an afternoon with no rain.
Love ray reardon great character. 👍
Ray went to live in Stoke it was easier to cover the country . He initially thought it was Stake ,but realised he'd made a mistake
I used to play pool when I was young and at about the age of ten I played a game of pool on a snooker table,it took a long time to complete the game because I wasn't that good then,it was only years later that came to realise that I was playing on a snooker table.
Came for the Snooker. Stayed for the L Plate Toledo.
11:50 half expecting Doug to go in for a snog
Love how they leveled the table must have took ages
They asked STEPHEN LEE if he would take part in a remake… when he found out it involved walking up a hill he said no!
He'll be back playing soon
43:10 this just confirms what we've known all along.. about Count Reardon :)
Surreal
Last thing you would expect in a welsh field is a snooker game lol...
HAVE A SMOKE AND A GARGLE. THOSE WERE THE DAYS
Look at what we done when we could do stuff
36:24 Back then, 2 blades in a razor was groundbreaking. Now you get about 8 in one 🤣
4:34 "I was thrown from being an ordinary working man into" -- into a Rolls-Royce with a chauffeur
Quality
Can anyone tell what year this was filmed
It will be 1983 as was mentioned Doug in world final two years ago .Davis beat him in 81
Mountjoy's daughter Yvette was a nude model during the 1990's appearing in Mayfair magazine.
has reardon ever lined up a shot haha
the pro tour would be better today if you could pause and say 'hang on i dont like the referee'
let's try it for a season
totally coughs free !
He us right,see do anything in the morning
Oh not today!!!!!!🤯🤯🤯
Who's the interviewer - can anyone tell me? Thanks
Jack somebody.
Could well be Jack Howells, as he was a Welsh filmmaker who is listed as the writer and director of this film, and he's referred to as "Jack" by Doug Mountjoy. Some info: archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/green-green-baize
“Snookers not about eyesight, it’s about guts.”
Well I’ve got guts by the bucket-load, but I’m certified blind, and absolute shite.
So speak for yourself, Cliff Wilson!!!
Prat.
6:56 Brokeback Mountain
27:18 crikey he really is dracula!
Coal: The fuel of the future :D
Great film about these Welsh garden gnomes. They wouldn't be able to compete today the game has come on so much and it was so interesting how Doug was treating a normal century break like a golden 147 maximum. I think Griffiths only had 88 century breaks in his career and by God it most likely took him 88 years to make them as that man was slow. I loved the Welsh scenery the old villages and those ancient t.v. adverts. Still it was very boring!
It was in fact a 145 and technically a World championship record at the time. He was invited onto Roy Castle's Record Breakers show because of that ordinary break.
@@davidsmith5523 I wonder how long it took him to make it lol.
@@dfstarborn well Google century breakers on you tube and you can watch it. He was medium brisk for the time. Some great pots into baulk and sn incident with a stray insect. Great break.
@@davidsmith5523 Sorry, it was painful enough to watch him while he was playing so no need to g back. He's a funny guy though all the same. I'll give him that.
Of course they would compete. Bring back the old table clothes and lets see how good modern day pros are compared to the 70s and 80s players
I thought it was the cops playing snooker while looking for Jack the Ripper!
You thinking of the Yorkshire Ripper?
@@mariamalik4810 Wearside Jack threw me 😉
kino
All those Guardan readers were actors bar one. Lefty Luvvies Love the Guardian....That's a wrap , daaaarlings.
10mis not a woman in sight 😂
Ray died s few days ago JULY 2024: RIP