Hints and tips:
...The way Americans really speak was somehow filtered through his default contempt or pity, and his ear for the lingo of the vagabond classes sometimes verged on Professor Higgins-like curiosity....
...The rain hasn’t stopped but today Higgins would be better equipped with Google Translate than a PhD in phonetics....
...Alex “Hurricane” Higgins and Jimmy “the Whirlwind” White....
...He and Mr Loud both agree the 2011 runner-up Judd Trump is likeliest to take the title won last year by John Higgins....
...Ronnie O’Sullivan....
...Even Ronnie “The Rocket” O’Sullivan, the game’s most flamboyant character, said in January that the game was “dying”....
...Some idea of the variety on offer came from the BBC Radio 3 late night launch party held at Ronnie Scott’s....
...His growing reputation, built on countless club dates and umpteen name-check gigs as a sideman, gave his first appearance at Ronnie’s as a leader a frisson of expectation....
...Saxophonist Dave O’Higgins is one of the UK sessioneers who play the best jazz gigs – John Dankworth & Cleo Lane, Ronnie Scott All-stars, Matthew Herbert – but still take time to do their own thing....
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