Simply the greatest final and snooker match i have ever had the privilege to watch, 2 of the greatest players ever to grace the game at the top of their game and a finish which was undoubtedly one of the most dramatic finishes to any game of sport ever in the history of sporting events.
+Tom CFC we should and Higgins has a great record against Ronnie is the really big Triple Crown events like the Masters. Ronnie is the better player but Higgins has the wood over him when the chips are really down on the biggest weekends. Should be a great evening if Higgins qualifies.
Tom CFC looking forward to it either way. No one can deny that having Ronnie in a Triple crown finals weekend adds to the interest. Robertson V Trump could be superb tomorrow.
Remember watching this in my local 15 years ago, I still think these pair reached levels nobody else could touch from around 2000-2010. I remember my heart sinking when higgins got that double at the end, because i knew it was over, what a clearance.
Whatever your feelings about Higgins or O'Sullivan, there's no denying this was one simply incredible final, and featured one of the best pressure breaks since Alex Higgins' 69 in 1982 in the immense final frame decider. Both players were in the form of their lives and it was a pleasure to watch.
O'Sullivan and J Higgins always brings the best out of each other. Great respect between the two and both started their careers in similar ways at the same time
I remember watching this match, it was incredible. Clips a touch biased towards Ronnie, seems to show a lot of Higgins' misses, so I can't really understand how people could call Higgins lucky based on this clip. Higgins played unbelievably to be 5-3 up after Ronnie's tournament high breaks of 138 & 139 in the first two frames (who by the way was also fantastic). He went from 3-0 down to 5-3 up, this BBC montage doesn't really show any of that all though I still really enjoyed it.
goldenepic I was thinking the same watching this live I was on the edge of my seat, when John dropped that in to the middle I remember screaming he’s missed it then it just dropped in, the double was brilliant and was a great match to watch
One of the truly great masters finals, i really was open mouthed on the edge of my seat watching that match, i also put a hundred quid on Higgins to win at the start of the tournement, he was 7/1, That aside, incredidible game, both players at the top of their game, fantastic. Is it just me or is snnoker missing those big grandstand games, that have that unexplainable magic.
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John higgins is an awesome player BUT i can't get over the fact he wanted to cheat. He only didn't do it because he got caught before doing it. Still doesn't make it right. The intention was definitely there for all to see
Two legends, 19 legendary frames :) Match of my life, its better to watch them in a 19 frame match than a 35, its far more tense. Course, thats my opinion. :)
i recall ronnie using just the red and blue to get a break of 58 when the score was 8-8 frames a piece,it was amazing to watch his positional play, the best game i ever seen between higgins and o` sullivan i remember o` sullivan missing the red ball when he was on a 60 break and needed just a couple of balls to win but a great clearence from higgins to win 10-9,i also recall ronnie calling john a great player and a lucky bastard refering to the red which was lucky to fall in the middle bag.
Ronnie had to finish off the decider it was all there for him. This was a great final , when he got to 60 with the tricky red I thought he won but even Ronnie gets nervous.
Harry Gherk I don't know what you're talking about. These are snooker players playing snooker. Pool is another cue sport. I love both pool and snooker, but they're totally different.
Oh, also, what a fucking final. It's rare that we get a final of this quality with two of the greatest playing near their best. One of my biggest regrets with snooker is that we never got a Hendry Davis world final, or Hendry O'sullivan. Those would've been epic. the 90 UK final was a good consolation tho.
Out of the 4 Major's finals these two players have played o Sullivan won 2 by alot and the world final they played by 4 and this was the only close one but Higgins had to pull of what is considered his best clearence of his career to just win 1 against Ronnie.
Because the fact remains that John Higgins is 1 of the greatest snooker players of all time, he's been the best snooker player of the past 5 years, and he is somewhere in the top 3 greatest that's ever picked up a snooker cue. He's not the best breakbuilder ever, and he doesn't have the greatest safety game ever, but he is the best allrounder who doesn't have a weak facet to his game. There's no other player you can say that about. Every player in history has at least one weakness, John Doesn't
can anyone tell me the name of the background music? it's not the Mission -BBC orchestra of Wales and Ben Foster, as mentioned below. I'd appreciate it.
I renember watching the double at 6:40. That was my last hope that he would miss. You gotta give it to higgings. He is a great player and that was a great clearence and he deserved to win that match.
@hazelwood474 when your a underdog you don't have much to lose there for Higgins took dangerous chance even tho meaning losing matches, thats the only way to beat O'sullivan at his best i've seen this match it was sick but i agree with U must be the biggest luck ever in snooker for Ronnie Osullivan to lose to a cheat he did say he didn't understand what was going on when he was dealing with russian mafia, he's a grown man he understood everything only cause he go caught red-handed.
I do agree with Ronnie being a huge talent, but as an all around player i appreciate John much more. He´s more stable, less arrogant, and i your only argument against him is accusing of cheating - you obviously don´t know enough about snooker to keep commenting.
big ronnie fan but higgins is the only guy that could always beat ronnie at his best when john is at his best ,this is`nt just me saying this o`sullivan said it himself in a interview on tv possibly mark williams at his best could!
Man, I'm brazilian, huge fan of snooker, but I have to say, I have such a hard time trying to understand John Higgins, very difficult to understand what he's saying.
@AntiFanBoy1 Ronnie anit world no 1 anymore but he is the man to beat what ever tournament, John Higgins is the only man that can take on ronnie but he anit better then ronnie specially when ronnie is on overdrive mode he is unstopable, John won most of the matches against him only cause of Ronnie's lack of concentration, & John Higgin is a underdog any player plays [ronnie world no 1] or not would be thrilled to beat him & give all they got, same with the underdog nothing to lose.
A great match. I wonder how many of John's misses were legit or ordered by his wealthy gambling syndicate mates? The way the WPBSA brushed his match fixing away was contemptible
+levi Meu It's a subtle difference, but no he wasn't. He was caught agreeing to fix some frames on camera. Whether he would've actually done it is anyone's guess (and he obviously says no)
Really? Well you might well be wrong on that score Mr Jealous. Experts have already quoted Mr O'Sullivan as the best player of all time, also he has not retired yet. Wait and see how many centuries and maximums + titles he achieves before you make that assumption. Now you deal with that :-)
levi Meu Ah well, the title stopped in Great Britain, rather than some Foreign land :-) Ronnie still has more natural talent than the rest combined. Are you another "hater" by any chance?
Remember 2005? Ronnie took him to pieces. Not exactly better than Ronnie, is he? Just the usual (haters), it is to be expected. When a guy has a year off and still wins the 2013 World snooker championship. Nevermind, when you have that much talent & ability, then you can afford to be arrogant, simple as that. Ronnie was nowhere near his best in this particular match, that is pretty obvious.
Higgins is finished, look at the last two years. Ronnie still has the talent. my advice is, don't watch Ronnie videos, if all you are going to do is pour hate on a genius. Go watch John Higgins videos, that should send you to sleep in no time at all.
***** Well said man. Ronnie has what you call *Natural Born Talent*, I Agree Higgins is well past his best at this moment in time & anyway i lost alot of respect for him ever since those videos surfaced, but with Ronnie it doesn't matter how old he gets he'll still be producing The kind of Snooker he produces right into his 60s. (With the end of his crutch in an old folks home (; We all know what Ronnie is capable of on a Snooker Table. It doesn't matter who he comes up against or what kind of form they are in if Ronnie is on his *A+ Game* then Ronnie wins it's as simple as that. He hardly picked up a cue the whole year after wining the 2012 WSC & to come back in 2013 & defend his title just proves my Point & your Point & lets be honest about it he pissed it no one came close to him last year) In the 2006 WSC he played the best Snooker i have ever seen him play (I could say he was at his peak) but since the 2012 tournament he's surpassed that, At 38 yrs of age he is playing the best Snooker of his career & all snooker fans know from the age of 35 a player starts to decline but not Ronnie O' Sullivan he's getting better.
***** Cheers man (: You have an interesting channel, I love your video's man. I'm a huge fan of only three thing's in this world & that's Ronnie O' Sullivan, Snooker & Seasick Steve in that order ( :
Thank you mate lol. I am nuts, but I am ok. I am watching the world snooker at present. Cannot wait till Tuesday, let's hope that Ronnie does us proud, I think he will :-)
Simply the greatest final and snooker match i have ever had the privilege to watch, 2 of the greatest players ever to grace the game at the top of their game and a finish which was undoubtedly one of the most dramatic finishes to any game of sport ever in the history of sporting events.
Best Break under 100.. Ronnie and John still winning ranking tournaments in there 40s also Mark J Williams doing the same.. class of 92.. Bravo
Osullivans 92 v Carter was better.
This music is so freakin' epic! And fits excellently to what we see here!
we may see higgins vs ronnie in the semi finals this year if higgins beats bingham
yaaayy!
+Tom CFC we should and Higgins has a great record against Ronnie is the really big Triple Crown events like the Masters. Ronnie is the better player but Higgins has the wood over him when the chips are really down on the biggest weekends. Should be a great evening if Higgins qualifies.
tigerarmyrule yep id love to see higgins vs ronnie
And if higgins doesnt win bingham vs ronnie should be a great match
Tom CFC looking forward to it either way. No one can deny that having Ronnie in a Triple crown finals weekend adds to the interest. Robertson V Trump could be superb tomorrow.
Remember watching this in my local 15 years ago, I still think these pair reached levels nobody else could touch from around 2000-2010. I remember my heart sinking when higgins got that double at the end, because i knew it was over, what a clearance.
Williams in 2003 reached a very high level imo.. probably the highest of that decade. Hendry in patches of 02 and 03 too
@@sugs1191agreed, williams of 2003 reached the highest heights ever in the game imo, even above Hendry of mid 90s and Ronnie 2008-12.
Whatever your feelings about Higgins or O'Sullivan, there's no denying this was one simply incredible final, and featured one of the best pressure breaks since Alex Higgins' 69 in 1982 in the immense final frame decider.
Both players were in the form of their lives and it was a pleasure to watch.
O'Sullivan and J Higgins always brings the best out of each other. Great respect between the two and both started their careers in similar ways at the same time
I remember watching this match, it was incredible. Clips a touch biased towards Ronnie, seems to show a lot of Higgins' misses, so I can't really understand how people could call Higgins lucky based on this clip. Higgins played unbelievably to be 5-3 up after Ronnie's tournament high breaks of 138 & 139 in the first two frames (who by the way was also fantastic). He went from 3-0 down to 5-3 up, this BBC montage doesn't really show any of that all though I still really enjoyed it.
goldenepic I was thinking the same watching this live I was on the edge of my seat, when John dropped that in to the middle I remember screaming he’s missed it then it just dropped in, the double was brilliant and was a great match to watch
One of the truly great masters finals, i really was open mouthed on the edge of my seat watching that match, i also put a hundred quid on Higgins to win at the start of the tournement, he was 7/1,
That aside, incredidible game, both players at the top of their game, fantastic. Is it just me or is snnoker missing those big grandstand games, that have that unexplainable magic.
Their game or there game?
Ah who cares 😁 👍
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Most intense final I`ve ever seen! Apart from Ebdon vs Dott in 2006 LOL
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wow!! a comeback win against Ronnie that too 60pts ahead, truly remarkable performance from John.
Broke me watching this live, vintage higgins.
Great player. Superb final. So humble in victory.
John higgins is an awesome player BUT i can't get over the fact he wanted to cheat. He only didn't do it because he got caught before doing it. Still doesn't make it right. The intention was definitely there for all to see
John Higgins was pure class at there
Snooker fans live for this kinda stuff 😍
6:04 Higgins 60 pts down in final frame and came back to win
Mario Puzo how the first red dropped in i will never know.
Mario Puzo i
Watching this live was agonising.
Two legends, 19 legendary frames :) Match of my life, its better to watch them in a 19 frame match than a 35, its far more tense. Course, thats my opinion. :)
One of the best finals I've had the pleasure to watch!!!
Please watch the 1985 embassy world Champion which was decided on final black and moreover Denis was trailing 0-8.
championships
@@AnilSingh-nl4ok that's s classic too
@@gurdeepchumber2764 you agree
I remember this match. Wow. More than seven years ago.
Yep
Wot a great final that was. 2 great players in their prime. It's a shame one of them had to Lose it.
Beating Ronnie at his prime wow!!
This is Higgins at his prime as well.
@@brettharrison837 Higgins is a cheat.he should have been banned for good
Its still exciting to watch
Unbelievable! Gut wrenching loss for Ronnie, but boy, does John Higgins have some bottle.
perhaps the best game ever !
What a memory for Higgins to have(at that age), not many beat Ronnie playing that well in a final.
Hunter did in 2004 watch it , you won't lose your time :)
i recall ronnie using just the red and blue to get a break of 58 when the score was 8-8 frames a piece,it was amazing to watch his positional play, the best game i ever seen between higgins and o` sullivan i remember o` sullivan missing the red ball when he was on a 60 break and needed just a couple of balls to win but a great clearence from higgins to win 10-9,i also recall ronnie calling john a great player and a lucky bastard refering to the red which was lucky to fall in the middle bag.
simply one of the best 3-5 matches in the last decade
Really Nice Content.... :)
Ronnie had to finish off the decider it was all there for him. This was a great final , when he got to 60 with the tricky red I thought he won but even Ronnie gets nervous.
lol
yeah. should have closed it out. since then he has a mental block vs Higgins
Remember my heart sinking when the double went in
Ronnie the best simply the best !
These pool players are fantastic!
they're not playing pool.
Not with that attitude they won't.
Harry Gherk
I don't know what you're talking about.
These are snooker players playing snooker. Pool is another cue sport. I love both pool and snooker, but they're totally different.
Two great champions
background music is fxxking awesome !!!!!!!!
Oh, also, what a fucking final. It's rare that we get a final of this quality with two of the greatest playing near their best. One of my biggest regrets with snooker is that we never got a Hendry Davis world final, or Hendry O'sullivan. Those would've been epic. the 90 UK final was a good consolation tho.
2 greatest cuemen ever 👏👏
One god and other king of snooker
Amazing battle.
Both are genius.
Wow!
Music = "The Mission - BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Ben Foster"
I was never this fuckin tensed even for my exams.....
Does anyone have the complete footage of this final match? Just can't wait to see it.
quality vid thanks for uploading
What a Match.....
Out of the 4 Major's finals these two players have played o Sullivan won 2 by alot and the world final they played by 4 and this was the only close one but Higgins had to pull of what is considered his best clearence of his career to just win 1 against Ronnie.
Can't this venue comeback
amazing match... it could have gone either way...but Ronnie is the best player in the world with his speed, judgement, placing and effortless cueing.
someone please find the music to this?? Or how would I get it?
I love John Higgins! He and Mark Williams are my favorites snooker players.
Where would I gt th music to this video?
what is the song at the start
Playing a final against the rocket and winning it doesn’t get any better..
What is the music on this video?? Or where would I get it? It's Classss!
Because the fact remains that John Higgins is 1 of the greatest snooker players of all time, he's been the best snooker player of the past 5 years, and he is somewhere in the top 3 greatest that's ever picked up a snooker cue. He's not the best breakbuilder ever, and he doesn't have the greatest safety game ever, but he is the best allrounder who doesn't have a weak facet to his game. There's no other player you can say that about. Every player in history has at least one weakness, John Doesn't
John's weakness is Selby.. Lol
His most weak aspect is his rest play brother
music??? sound video?? name please
Snookers peak talent
¡Grande Constantino Romero!
What;s the background music its fab!
LivingDaylights007 torchwood the mission
can anyone tell me the name of the background music? it's not the Mission -BBC orchestra of Wales and Ben Foster, as mentioned below. I'd appreciate it.
same question from me... :-)
it is Torchwood 07 the mission
+FormulaMoss sup moss
Oh my god
You can’t hit the ball better than Ronnie O Sullivan
I renember watching the double at 6:40. That was my last hope that he would miss. You gotta give it to higgings. He is a great player and that was a great clearence and he deserved to win that match.
Selby done same thing to him. Two doubles two finals lost
what is the music? amazing
Are you still around? Because it's Torchwood
The Mission - BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Ben Foster
From the lions jaws .
nise
@RaymondBriggs666 totally agree with it all mate
I watch snoooker only for Ronnie. The only time I don't mind him losing is when he plays Higgins. Don't follow me or my opinion, very personal
O'Sullivan couldn't have played any better, and he lost by 4 points. To this day, dunno how Higgins managed to win this lol
I wanted Ronnie to win but at 3:38 definitely a push shot
@hazelwood474 when your a underdog you don't have much to lose there for Higgins took dangerous chance even tho meaning losing matches, thats the only way to beat O'sullivan at his best i've seen this match it was sick but i agree with U must be the biggest luck ever in snooker for Ronnie Osullivan to lose to a cheat he did say he didn't understand what was going on when he was dealing with russian mafia, he's a grown man he understood everything only cause he go caught red-handed.
That kick ;-(
They were both young men then
Ronnie should have won that match. that was a sad day.
no
Ronie should won this game ,seems he shouldn't did those mistake ,Just lucky for John HIggins
Ronnie the greatest
btw someone knows the music played in the background
Osullivan is a genius Higgins is a good all round match player end of
2 fantastic players but der s only 1 Ronnie hears too his 1000
I do agree with Ronnie being a huge talent, but as an all around player i appreciate John much more. He´s more stable, less arrogant, and i your only argument against him is accusing of cheating - you obviously don´t know enough about snooker to keep commenting.
These pair are like Roger Federer v rafael Nadal rivalry..
Yep even Ronnie says John Higgins is the best all-round player he's ever played against.
Higgins was very lucky
big ronnie fan but higgins is the only guy that could always beat ronnie at his best when john is at his best ,this is`nt just me saying this o`sullivan said it himself in a interview on tv possibly mark williams at his best could!
John Higgins has more bottle than anyone to pick up a cue
Man, I'm brazilian, huge fan of snooker, but I have to say, I have such a hard time trying to understand John Higgins, very difficult to understand what he's saying.
+Mssmaimone he is scottish. its hard to understand the accent sometimes.
Biggest cheat of all time Higgins
@Fiction7507 yes, that's thee only thing that spoils it for me I'm afraid. No offense to Higgins, but I wanted Ronnie
OH NO, i dont want this ending.....
@AntiFanBoy1 Ronnie anit world no 1 anymore but he is the man to beat what ever tournament, John Higgins is the only man that can take on ronnie but he anit better then ronnie specially when ronnie is on overdrive mode he is unstopable, John won most of the matches against him only cause of Ronnie's lack of concentration, & John Higgin is a underdog any player plays [ronnie world no 1] or not would be thrilled to beat him & give all they got, same with the underdog nothing to lose.
Isn’t this where Ronnie called Higgins a lucky bastard, which he was.. that red shouldn’t have gone in
Get right up the kosher
Didn't Ronnie call him a lucky bastard for that shot in the middle
Mohammed Rasull yeah
A great match. I wonder how many of John's misses were legit or ordered by his wealthy gambling syndicate mates? The way the WPBSA brushed his match fixing away was contemptible
Higgin is good but Ronnie is best
why people calling Higgins Cheat?
+Hani S He was caught matchfixing on camera
+levi Meu It's a subtle difference, but no he wasn't. He was caught agreeing to fix some frames on camera. Whether he would've actually done it is anyone's guess (and he obviously says no)
He was cleared of any wrong doing.
he was caught talking. get the difference
No-one mentions it but This tournament was the seminal moment in history when Higgins quantum leader from school boy to old man
@AntiFanBoy1 Its not too late to get help...
Am this was when he was a criminal and got away with it
the cheat wins again!
Ronnie is perhaps.. the 3rd best player of them all. Or 4th. Deal with it.
Really? Well you might well be wrong on that score Mr Jealous. Experts have already quoted Mr O'Sullivan as the best player of all time, also he has not retired yet. Wait and see how many centuries and maximums + titles he achieves before you make that assumption. Now you deal with that :-)
I feel as if he could still produce a few special matches, he seems to be able to do it at will.
***** Haha Wsc 2015 Vs Bingham？
levi Meu Ah well, the title stopped in Great Britain, rather than some Foreign land :-)
Ronnie still has more natural talent than the rest combined.
Are you another "hater" by any chance?
***** No, not really I think Ronnie is great. But disappointed that he went back to his old temperment.
Ronnie fucked up here,,,,,,,,,,,
Remember 2005? Ronnie took him to pieces. Not exactly better than Ronnie, is he? Just the usual (haters), it is to be expected. When a guy has a year off and still wins the 2013 World snooker championship. Nevermind, when you have that much talent & ability, then you can afford to be arrogant, simple as that. Ronnie was nowhere near his best in this particular match, that is pretty obvious.
Higgins is finished, look at the last two years. Ronnie still has the talent. my advice is, don't watch Ronnie videos, if all you are going to do is pour hate on a genius. Go watch John Higgins videos, that should send you to sleep in no time at all.
***** Well said man. Ronnie has what you call *Natural Born Talent*, I Agree Higgins is well past his best at this moment in time & anyway i lost alot of respect for him ever since those videos surfaced, but with Ronnie it doesn't matter how old he gets he'll still be producing The kind of Snooker he produces right into his 60s. (With the end of his crutch in an old folks home (;
We all know what Ronnie is capable of on a Snooker Table. It doesn't matter who he comes up against or what kind of form they are in if Ronnie is on his *A+ Game* then Ronnie wins it's as simple as that. He hardly picked up a cue the whole year after wining the 2012 WSC & to come back in 2013 & defend his title just proves my Point & your Point & lets be honest about it he pissed it no one came close to him last year)
In the 2006 WSC he played the best Snooker i have ever seen him play (I could say he was at his peak) but since the 2012 tournament he's surpassed that, At 38 yrs of age he is playing the best Snooker of his career & all snooker fans know from the age of 35 a player starts to decline but not Ronnie O' Sullivan he's getting better.
***** Love your comment Seasick Steve fan. This is true, I love the album Dog House Music, it is very good, I am not joking.
***** Cheers man (: You have an interesting channel, I love your video's man. I'm a huge fan of only three thing's in this world & that's Ronnie O' Sullivan, Snooker & Seasick Steve in that order ( :
Thank you mate lol. I am nuts, but I am ok. I am watching the world snooker at present. Cannot wait till Tuesday, let's hope that Ronnie does us proud, I think he will :-)