British cue sports broadcaster, author and former player
Clive Everton MBE
Born
(1937-09-07) 7 September 1937 (age 86) Worcester, England
Professional
1981–1991
Highest ranking
47 (1983–84)
Best ranking finish
Last 32 (x1)
Clive Harold EvertonMBE (born 7 September 1937) is a sports commentator, journalist, author and former professional snooker and English billiards player. He founded Snooker Scene magazine, which was first published (as World Snooker) in 1971, and continued as editor until September 2022.[1] He has authored over twenty books about cue sports since 1972.
Everton began commentating on snooker for BBC radio in 1972 and for BBC Television from 1978 until 2010. In the snooker boom years of the 1980s, he commentated alongside Ted Lowe and Jack Karnehm, and became the leading commentator in the 1990s. As an amateur player, he won junior titles in English billiards and the Welsh billiards title several times. He was five-times runner up in the English amateur billiards championship and twice a semi-finalist at the world amateur championship. In snooker, he partnered Roger Bales as they won the United Kingdom National Pairs Championship. Everton turned professional in 1981, achieving a highest ranking of 47th in the world in ten years as a snooker professional. He reached a peak of ninth place in the professional billiards rankings and remained in the top 20 ranked players even into his sixties.
Everton played county-level tennis for Worcestershire for 13 years and once managed Jonah Barrington, the former world number one squash player. In 2017, he was inducted into the Snooker Hall of Fame and was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to snooker. In 2022 the British Open tournament trophy was renamed the "Clive Everton Trophy".[2]
^"Snooker Scene: end of an era". World Snooker Tour. 6 September 2022. Archived from the original on 6 September 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
^"Clive Everton". wst.tv. Archived from the original on 21 September 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
Clive Harold Everton MBE (born 7 September 1937) is a sports commentator, journalist, author and former professional snooker and English billiards player...
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p. 169. Everton 1985, p. 63. Everton 1985, p. 64. Everton, Clive (1 May 1980). "Reardon goes out". The Guardian. London. p. 20. Everton, Clive (3 May 1980)...
spectators and in his 1979 book, The Story of Billiards and Snooker, CliveEverton describes them as "modern snooker's nearest equivalent to a bare knuckle...
Championship final. In the first round, Wilson had lost only one frame against CliveEverton, whilst Johnson had whitewashed Paul Watchorn. Wilson won against Johnson...
CliveEverton in 1972 from the amalgamation of the Billiards and Snooker Control Council's Billiards and Snooker and his own World Snooker. Everton was...
editor was CliveEverton, and Rosenthal, a keen amateur hockey player, edited the short-lived Hockey Scene magazine, also owned by Everton. Rosenthal...
final. He won the Welsh Amateur Championship in 1956. Snooker historian CliveEverton wrote of Wilson's early career that he was "a phenomenal potter: quick...
The Guardian. London. p. 18. Everton, Clive (5 May 1982). "Now Griffiths goes". The Guardian. London. p. 20. Everton, Clive (6 May 1982). "Thorburn on the...
Almanac. p. 130. Everton, Clive (1985). Guinness Snooker – The Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp. 86–87. ISBN 0851124488. Everton, Clive (10 April 1985)...
Everton's News Agency. February 1981. pp. 18–19. Everton, Clive (7 May 1980). "Thoroughly thriving Thorburn". The Guardian. London. p. 25. Everton, Clive...
1968, he won the English Amateur Billiards Championship by defeating CliveEverton 2,652–2,540 in the final.: 224 Following his national service in the...
progressed after winning three rounds, beating Dennis Hughes 10–3, CliveEverton 10–2 and the 1978 World Snooker Championship runner-up Perrie Mans 10–0...
October 2019. Everton, Clive (1986). The History of Snooker and Billiards. Partridge Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-85225-013-3. Everton, Clive (1985). Snooker...
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publisher (link) Everton, Clive (1981). The Guinness Book of Snooker. Enfield: Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 978-0-85112-230-4. Everton, Clive (2012). Black...
at his house, where Pulman was able to practise. Snooker historian CliveEverton alleges that this arrangement ended after Pulman was discovered in bed...
Services to Snooker Awards Year Awardee Notes 1983 Mike Watterson 1984 CliveEverton 1985 Del Simmonds 1986 Rex Williams 1987 Barry Hearn 1988 Howard Kruger...
ISBN 0851123643. Everton, Clive (22 September 1964). "Williams ready for snooker clash". Birmingham Daily Post. p. 15. CliveEverton (2 December 2011)...
2020. Everton, Clive (2012). A History of Billiards. Malmesbury, Wiltshire: englishbilliards.org. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-9564054-5-6. Everton, Clive (15 October...
Birmingham. April 1979. p. 3. Everton, Clive (13 January 1978). "Virgo's chance to join the stars". The Guardian. p. 17. Everton, Clive (1 May 1979). "All but...
p. 130. Everton, Clive; Hale, Janice (June 1989). "Embassy World Championship: Davis much too good". Snooker Scene. Birmingham: Everton's News Agency...
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