26 Facts About Clive Everton

Clive Harold Everton was born on 7 September 1937 and is a sports commentator, journalist, author and former professional snooker and English billiards player.

Clive Everton founded Snooker Scene magazine, which was first published in 1971, and continued as editor until September 2022.

Clive Everton has authored over twenty books about cue sports since 1972.

Clive Everton began commentating on snooker for BBC radio in 1972, and for BBC Television from 1978 until 2010.

Clive Everton was five-times runner up in the English amateur billiards championship, and twice a semi-finalist at the world amateur championship.

Clive Everton reached a peak of ninth place in the professional billiards rankings, and remained in the top 20 ranked players even into his sixties.

Clive Everton played county-level tennis for Worcestershire for 13 years, and once managed Jonah Barrington, the former world number one squash player.

Clive Harold Everton was born in Worcester on 7 September 1937.

Clive Everton became interested in playing English billiards after his father took him to a match at Leicester Square Hall where Sidney Smith was playing.

Clive Everton started playing on a friend's quarter-size billiard table, before having his own bought for him, and then began to play on a full-size table several months later.

Clive Everton entered the British Boys English billiards Championship for the first time in 1951, when he was 14, and lost in the first round to Brian Brooking by 147 points to 201.

Clive Everton took the Welsh Amateur billiards championship title in 1960,1972,1973 and 1976, and was four-times runner up in the English Amateur billiards championship from 1967 to 1980.

Clive Everton resigned his membership of the WPBSA in April 2006 during a dispute with the Association, which was seeking to take action against him through the Sports Dispute Resolution Panel as a result of criticism of it that he had published in Snooker Scene.

Clive Everton was accepted by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association as a professional in 1981.

Clive Everton lost to Cliff Thorburn by the same score in the last 32.

Clive Everton played in the Welsh Professional Championship on seven occasions, being seeded to the quarter-finals on four of these and the first round three times, but never won a match in the competition.

Clive Everton achieved a highest ranking of 47th in the world in ten years as a snooker professional.

Clive Everton commentated on snooker for BBC radio from 1972, and BBC television from the 1978 World Snooker Championship.

Clive Everton was the editor of the magazine Billiards and Snooker, owned by the Billiards Association and Control Council, from the December 1966 issue until the February 1971 issue.

Clive Everton merged Billiards and Snooker and World Snooker into Snooker Scene, which published its first issue in April 1972.

Clive Everton only commentated on two matches during the Grand Prix, and was not heard at all during the Masters.

Clive Everton commentated on days one to four of the 2010 World Snooker Championship and was heard again on day six, but that was his final commentary work of the tournament.

Clive Everton said that he was offered four days' work at the 2011 World Snooker Championship, but that this was rescinded when Stephen Hendry was eliminated from the competition and became available for commentary.

Clive Everton was later told that his work for the following season would depend on Hendry's availability, and decided that this was the end of his relationship with the BBC.

Clive Everton played county-level tennis for Worcestershire for 13 years, and has managed Jonah Barrington, the former world number one squash player.

Clive Everton was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to snooker.