This brings back wonderful memories, also, Ronnie is a much better interviewer than interviewee. I think he just likes having a snooker chat with snooker players, rather than journalists trying to find an angle or a gotcha. Joe Johnson, what a lovely man, superb snooker player and 100% deserved Champion of the World.
Isn’t it just he’s a nice guy offered me and a friend the match balls a while ago before I bought my own tournament champs when we were on the table next to him in his club. Because we could play a bit’ which was really nice to here and encouraging nice down to earth bloke 👍🏼 and former world champion! Haha fair play joe 💪🏼👏🏼
The mental fortitude to have held it together for 17 days as a 150-1 underdog is massive. Probably never to be seen again I’d imagine. And by all accounts a very nice, cool guy.
Wow !!! Joe Johnson. what a fantastic person in a enchanted era. Im 61 now and for me the 80s was the best era. Being an avid snooker player and a fan I used to watch the snooker religiously all the time. Joe defied all odds and came to really relax and enjoy himself and he produced the most amazing snooker ever. Thanks Joe for the beautiful memories !!!!
Love Joe’s commentary,sounds as if history is being made every call he makes.Would love to spend some time listening to his stories of great matches he has witnessed/called over the years.
Hat's off to Steve Davis as well, after losing in 85 to Taylor, to lose again in 86, to a 150 to 1 "outsider," and to give Joe the hug (and credit) he deserved, Davis, does look genuinely happy for him, although he must have thought, this was HIS best opportunity to retake the title, he took the loss, like the true gentleman, that he is.
Wonderful interview with Ronnie putting Joe totally at ease & letting him talk. He is a lovely character & it was only a few yrs ago that I realised the northern voice & astute commentator on TV was the same Joe Johnson, whom I knew had won a World Ch'ship, so it was great to hear his story! He picks up clever play such as little canons to gain position & movement of the cue ball & clever safety. He has a gentle voice that I could listen to for hrs...
Ronnie is so relaxed, i guess because he is a Genius, that makes the person watching, really enjoy the video, Ronnie is very well suited, to being a interviewer, and i for one, will watch every interview that he does, as i really enjoy the way he goes about it. Well done, Ronnie O'Sullivan.
It is great to hear and see Joe talk about the victory with such down to earth humility. Ronnie does an excellent job of these interviews and I commend him highly for that. I spent a day with Horace Lindrum,Walter's nephew, in 1972, I can tell you that the players today have taken snooker to a whole new level. I have always wondered how good Walter would have been, had he set his mind to play snooker. Keep up the good work Ronnie, the world needs people like you.
@@bullsnutsoz They changed the rules at least twice to stop him from scoring his big breaks. Ronnie is brilliant there is no doubt, have a look Lindrum on TH-cam. ..100 points in 46 seconds. Unfortunately billiards is boring to watch and in those days the money was not good and snooker had not taken off. Today there are dozens of players who would wipe the floor with Horace and Eddie, but I doubt if they could hold a candle to Walter, just my opinion, he was simply just too precise.
Pretty good job from ronnie there i would say You can tell by the expression and his tone that joe was at ease and enjoying to re-live these moments Its very clear to me how ronnies mindset effects everything he does He is just another man when he is enjoying himself and the other way round of course
Joe played amazing and fully deserved to win that year. In the final he got stronger as the matched progressed and you could see the belief grow with each frame. Joe looks well. What a nice man.
I was there..... for the match against Mike Hallet, my friend and I were astonished that professional snooker could be so bad! Watching Joe in the final though, wow! I still meet him at events around the Bradford area occasionally and he's such a nice man to spend time with an aura of humbleness around him. He's also one of my favourite commentators.
Im too young to have watched him but I really love listening to him when he’s commentating. His knowledge of snooker is incredible. Such a gentleman and humble.
Love these videos. I think Ronnie should do these with every living world champion. They could do a split shot of him when he has to interview himself.
Joe is a legend. Was a seismic shock when he won. Greatest ever snooker story and couldn’t have happened to a nicer bloke! Some of his shots were sensational!
What a joy it was, and a super achievement for a great underdog. As a UK sporting moment and marvel it's not unlike Leicester winning the league. In my mind anyway.
I remember Joe playing in the one frame pro-am 'Invitation Snooker' series on Tyne-Tees Television as an amateur and making the then world record televised break of 141. It was amazing at the time. Scary to think it's not even a record in our small town league now, the standards are so high. When I first started there were fables of past individuals once having made a century break. When I gave up the game everyone on our club team was a hundred break player, and a couple had had total clearances.
According to an interview published today - August 2020 - Ronnie was hospitalised with a breakdown during the 2106 championship - hushed up obviously. So it was very soon after this interview.
Joe is a great lad, saw him at Kashmir curry house when on leave from the Army, he was tucking in and very merry, great for Bradford when he beat the nugget!
fantastic well done osullivan i wish u do the same for 1982 /72 world champion the greit hurricane higgins just to show people how this man play the game..thanks
I remember that. Amazing for Joe Johnson. He's right. Steve Davis wasn't liked back then. But what a class act Davis was then and is now. I remember watching Davis playing Steven Hendry in The Forum in Livingston when Hendry was an amateur. Davis beat Henry something like 5 frames to nil but Davis was just such a gentleman and effusive in his praise of the up and coming Hendry. How right he was.
Almost as good as when he beat Stan Battye and his broomstick cue at South Elmsall in the Yorkshire Championship. Great player and top bloke. Well deserved World Snooker Champion.
Would of liked them to talk about the following year aswell with Steve beating Joe in the final. Was incredible by Joe, beating the man that was in 7 finals in a row.
So this is the man who taught me English. I swear, it was Championship Manager and snooker broadcasts that did the trick for me back in 2001 in post-war Croatia. Mr Johnson, if you ever see this, I'll be delighted to host you in the seaside.
I remember thinking what a great player pots better than Davis. People I knew were like flash in the pan. Then I knew I wasnt mixing with real snooker people
Joe played great that year and made it to the final the next year. Will be good when the Crucible curse has been broken. Joe and Ken Doherty came close.
I'd like to express my apologies to Joe... It was my fault he was tripped over by an anti smoking campaigner outside the crucible!! I have kept it in all these years... Sorry Joe!! 🙄
I cried watching this great humble man just being content
This brings back wonderful memories, also, Ronnie is a much better interviewer than interviewee. I think he just likes having a snooker chat with snooker players, rather than journalists trying to find an angle or a gotcha.
Joe Johnson, what a lovely man, superb snooker player and 100% deserved Champion of the World.
I like Joe's humility, it's quite refreshing.
Great champion and seems like a lovely bloke. Love this series of vidoes and hope to see many more in the future.
Isn’t it just he’s a nice guy offered me and a friend the match balls a while ago before I bought my own tournament champs when we were on the table next to him in his club. Because we could play a bit’ which was really nice to here and encouraging nice down to earth bloke 👍🏼 and former world champion! Haha fair play joe 💪🏼👏🏼
He shook up the world!
A true gent, and I enjoy his commentary on Eurosport.
The similarities to Luca Brecel this year are astonishing.
Joe is such a lovely man, deserves his time in the spotlight, joy to watch.
Hes my grandad
The type of guy you could sit down with have a drink and listen to his stories. Good as gold he is
He's truly a Joe to watch ;)
@@jakyt1630 You should be proud. I remember his win like it was yesterday and I’m not from the UK.
The mental fortitude to have held it together for 17 days as a 150-1 underdog is massive. Probably never to be seen again I’d imagine. And by all accounts a very nice, cool guy.
You said it perfectly,just amazing.
Very Beautiful and interesting story 1986. Well done Joe Johnson.
i was there...one of my greatest experiences..i'd come all the way over from Australia ...i still have the Crucible tickets..
Idk
No you didn't.
@@davemc5075 ikr
@@davemc5075 ..what do u mean?
Did you meet my cousin Ron there?
That was a genuinely life -affirming way to spend 16 or so minutes. I remember watching it live and feeling uplifted then too.
Gentleman Joe...proper Yorkshire man...what you see is what you get...wonderful interview
Wow !!! Joe Johnson. what a fantastic person in a enchanted era. Im 61 now and for me the 80s was the best era. Being an avid snooker player and a fan I used to watch the snooker religiously all the time. Joe defied all odds and came to really relax and enjoy himself and he produced the most amazing snooker ever. Thanks Joe for the beautiful memories !!!!
I love these Ronnie interviews. He is a really good interviewer, love for the game really comes through!
Love Joe’s commentary,sounds as if history is being made every call he makes.Would love to spend some time listening to his stories of great matches he has witnessed/called over the years.
OMG what a great interview to a great man. Totally deserved! Joe Rules!
Hat's off to Steve Davis as well, after losing in 85 to Taylor, to lose again
in 86, to a 150 to 1 "outsider," and to give Joe the hug (and credit) he deserved,
Davis, does look genuinely happy for him, although he must have thought,
this was HIS best opportunity to retake the title,
he took the loss, like the true gentleman, that he is.
Well said!!
Thanks for that lads great times👍
I REALLY love this video! Ronnie - you bring the best out of people in your interviews, and Joe - you are a brilliant commentator.
Wonderful interview with Ronnie putting Joe totally at ease & letting him talk. He is a lovely character & it was only a few yrs ago that I realised the northern voice & astute commentator on TV was the same Joe Johnson, whom I knew had won a World Ch'ship, so it was great to hear his story! He picks up clever play such as little canons to gain position & movement of the cue ball & clever safety. He has a gentle voice that I could listen to for hrs...
Always liked Joe Johnson, he played great for a couple of years
First autograph i ever got was joe Johnson at his denim shop in Bradford in 1987
Great bloke, great interview.
Ronnie is so relaxed, i guess because he is a Genius, that makes the person watching, really enjoy the video, Ronnie is very well suited, to being a interviewer, and i for one, will watch every interview that he does, as i really enjoy the way he goes about it. Well done, Ronnie O'Sullivan.
I met joe at cue gardens in Bradford, he is a really nice bloke. Good on him for winning it.
Only just realised joes the commentator on Eurosport , brilliant commentator
That was one of the best world championships ever.
Joe was amazing, potted everything
It is great to hear and see Joe talk about the victory with such down to earth humility. Ronnie does an excellent job of these interviews and I commend him highly for that. I spent a day with Horace Lindrum,Walter's nephew, in 1972, I can tell you that the players today have taken snooker to a whole new level. I have always wondered how good Walter would have been, had he set his mind to play snooker. Keep up the good work Ronnie, the world needs people like you.
Uncle wally L would not have the power and precision I would suspect to take down my cousie bro Ron!
@@bullsnutsoz They changed the rules at least twice to stop him from scoring his big breaks. Ronnie is brilliant there is no doubt, have a look Lindrum on TH-cam. ..100 points in 46 seconds. Unfortunately billiards is boring to watch and in those days the money was not good and snooker had not taken off. Today there are dozens of players who would wipe the floor with Horace and Eddie, but I doubt if they could hold a candle to Walter, just my opinion, he was simply just too precise.
What a match, the memory of that is still with me.
What a beautiful respect love that Ronnie
Pretty good job from ronnie there i would say
You can tell by the expression and his tone that joe was at ease and enjoying to re-live these moments
Its very clear to me how ronnies mindset effects everything he does
He is just another man when he is enjoying himself and the other way round of course
Joe played amazing and fully deserved to win that year. In the final he got stronger as the matched progressed and you could see the belief grow with each frame. Joe looks well. What a nice man.
I was there..... for the match against Mike Hallet, my friend and I were astonished that professional snooker could be so bad! Watching Joe in the final though, wow! I still meet him at events around the Bradford area occasionally and he's such a nice man to spend time with an aura of humbleness around him. He's also one of my favourite commentators.
Hallett should have beaten Hendry in 1991 Masters.
Joe great guy , Ronnie probably the most gifted player ever and I’m a hurricane fan
Im too young to have watched him but I really love listening to him when he’s commentating. His knowledge of snooker is incredible. Such a gentleman and humble.
Bradford's finest was Joe...Best man won on the day defo...Top man Joe...👏🏻🏆👏🏻🎱
What a nice man and a good interviewer
Oh my god, what a loveable personality !! Now I have to watch the full match no doubt!! and! those shoes ROCK!!!
As a fellow Bradfordian, It's nice to have somebody as nice, down to earth like Joe representing. Good man
Good for the people of Bradford too, just a year or so after the tragic football stadium fire.
Joe the gent, was so happy he won the final that year, Bradford's finest, a lovely lovely man
Them shoes were extraordinary
Great top quality interview from 2 excellent World Champions, very enjoyable interview with really good questions, well done Ronnie & Joe...
Love these videos. I think Ronnie should do these with every living world champion. They could do a split shot of him when he has to interview himself.
That's a really great idea.
Joe is a legend. Was a seismic shock when he won. Greatest ever snooker story and couldn’t have happened to a nicer bloke! Some of his shots were sensational!
Your one of the legends.
Thanks for your autograph
Joe Johnson 😊
What nice and honest guy Joe is, great interview
Really great interview by Ronnie. Joe is a class act. Love it.
great interview / chat
What a lovely man.
And the look on his wife's face when he lifted the trophy.
Validation, for a lot of hard work.
Couldn't happen to a better couple.
Lovely guys... even Ronnie in his old age. Moving.
What a great interview 👍🏼
What a joy it was, and a super achievement for a great underdog. As a UK sporting moment and marvel it's not unlike Leicester winning the league. In my mind anyway.
Back then I was a big Steve Davis fan and I cried when he lost.
Strangely, when Mountjoy won, I cried with happiness.
I was quite young then.
I remember Joe playing in the one frame pro-am 'Invitation Snooker' series on Tyne-Tees Television as an amateur and making the then world record televised break of 141. It was amazing at the time. Scary to think it's not even a record in our small town league now, the standards are so high. When I first started there were fables of past individuals once having made a century break. When I gave up the game everyone on our club team was a hundred break player, and a couple had had total clearances.
I watched it. ,it was amazing, and the final the year after ,,
Great interview. Not many things Ronnie can't do. Sound man Joe as well.
What a wicked bloke Joe is ... good for him !!
According to an interview published today - August 2020 - Ronnie was hospitalised with a breakdown during the 2106 championship - hushed up obviously.
So it was very soon after this interview.
Joe is a great lad, saw him at Kashmir curry house when on leave from the Army, he was tucking in and very merry, great for Bradford when he beat the nugget!
Steve Brown all The best you pumper
I'm from Bradford, I was 13 in 1986, and Bradford went mental.
@SavageArfad David Hockney. JB Priestley.
@@forgive7449 Fredrick Delius.
Isn't Kashmir the one that does the breakfast buffet?
Love this man!
fantastic well done osullivan i wish u do the same for 1982 /72 world champion the greit hurricane higgins just to show people how this man play the game..thanks
there is just one slight problem getting alex to do an interview.
Sadly no way to do interview with Alex but his vedieos still alive thanks
I remember that. Amazing for Joe Johnson. He's right. Steve Davis wasn't liked back then. But what a class act Davis was then and is now. I remember watching Davis playing Steven Hendry in The Forum in Livingston when Hendry was an amateur. Davis beat Henry something like 5 frames to nil but Davis was just such a gentleman and effusive in his praise of the up and coming Hendry. How right he was.
Fantastic episode
Almost as good as when he beat Stan Battye and his broomstick cue at South Elmsall in the Yorkshire Championship. Great player and top bloke. Well deserved World Snooker Champion.
The similarities to Luca Bresel this year are spooky.
Would of liked them to talk about the following year aswell with Steve beating Joe in the final. Was incredible by Joe, beating the man that was in 7 finals in a row.
So this is the man who taught me English.
I swear, it was Championship Manager and snooker broadcasts that did the trick for me back in 2001 in post-war Croatia.
Mr Johnson, if you ever see this, I'll be delighted to host you in the seaside.
Played Joe in a 9 ball game at Uttoxeter races few years ago, great guy, very humble👍 and yes I won 😉🎱 lol
The Rocket The Genius!👌
I remember watching the final, Joe just couldn't miss, the back of the pockets were ringing that evening.
proud to say he’s my coach
Joe Johnson - bloody nice bloke.
Ronnie should see if Joe will sell him some of those raaaaaaanking points
Great snooker shoes !
People forget Joe reached the final again a year later but Davis got his revenge. But his 1986 win is still very memorable.
Yes, and he made the best defense as a first-time-champion, losing to Davis 14-18.
A true gent!
People forget he made the final the year after too. Davis got his revenge, winning 18-14.
Crackin shirt Joe!!
he beat wallace & then gromit to get to the final
Had a crap season in 87 and came the (joint?) closest to beating the Crucible curse. Loved watching Joe
Joint closest? Who else nearly did it? Ken Doherty didn't really come close against Higgins.
I wish there were more from the 1979 championship, Terry Griffiths's epic wins over Higgins and Charlton especially.
They said nice guys don't win, the Joe Johnson came along....
that was a great win.joe blew steve away and steve was in good form too.
I remember thinking what a great player pots better than Davis. People I knew were like flash in the pan. Then I knew I wasnt mixing with real snooker people
its all about those rankin points init maaate!!
Also i now know his son!
And this was the year after Davis lost to Dennis Taylor, ouch Steve!
2:29
Preaching to the Choir
A truly great sporting upset Joe winning the world championship!!!
When he scored those 3 centuries in 4 frames to beat terry Griffiths that's when I knew.
Joe played great that year and made it to the final the next year. Will be good when the Crucible curse has been broken. Joe and Ken Doherty came close.
Judd has a chance this year to brake the curse
Who'd win in a fight, Joe Johnson or John Virgo?
What's Ronnies' question at 14:34? ^^
He said the pockets must look like buckets now..
@@davegonnaway6007 thanks. Have a pleasant weekend buddy!
@@nadeemakhtar8195 you too mate
The pockets in his club were much tighter than normL SO IN THE CRUCIBLE THEY LOOKED LIKE BUCKETS
I always thought this guy looked Indian. I found out his dad was Pakistani
I never new John Belushi played snooker.
His real name is. Usif malik
i thought it was mustafa curry 😐
Joe's shirt is 45
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👕👍 *Is Ronnie wearing them WHITE shoes from 1986? **12:34* 😂
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I'd like to express my apologies to Joe... It was my fault he was tripped over by an anti smoking campaigner outside the crucible!! I have kept it in all these years... Sorry Joe!!
🙄
Did Ronnie just flex on Joe? lol
I wonder how much he had on himself to win it.
he was great in Band of Brothers
In 1987 Joe Johnson came very close to beating the crucible curse.