FOCUS: TOP SNOOKER COACH BRIAN COX raised the bar as a participant within the Boston Snooker League again within the 90s…
As League Snooker will recommence again in the direction of the top of the summer time for all to get pleasure from, we delve into the archives in numerous snooker leagues to search out out which gamers raised the bar for snooker leagues throughout the nation.
We start with Brian Cox, now a high snooker coach and a former skilled who was ranked properly over 300 within the skilled ranks again within the 90s, however gained a number of league titles and knocked in a number of huge breaks within the Boston Snooker League, together with a 137!
The now 49-year-old (pictured by SnookerZone’s Chris Gaynor with a Marathon Medal at Woking Snooker Centre) who now coaches on the three-table snooker venue in Cobham, The Surrey Snooker Academy, is one in all a handful of snooker coaches whom has raised the bar in a snooker league throughout the nation.
As we proceed to concentrate on League snooker successes throughout the nation, (notably domestically) the Boston Snooker League in Lincolnshire has had an illustrious historical past of snooker success with groups and particular person gamers.
We’re nonetheless investigating a narrative within the Oxshott League, (WATCH THIS SPACE).
We phoned up the Boston League to test whether or not Brian Cox’s youngest ever participant century within the league nonetheless was a file (as on the the British Newspaper Archive), and was the holder of that file in his twenties, and so far as they had been conscious. It’s.
A spokesman for the Boston League, stated: “He (Brian) was fairly younger when he made the break.”
The Surrey Snooker Academy in Cobham, Surrey, has three-heated tables and is open to those that need to get a pattern of what it’s prefer to play on skilled tables as commonplace in a membership.
Surrey league snooker has had additionally an illustrious time with the likes of the Oxshott League (1910) notably The Oxshott Membership (nonetheless going with a league), Epsom League, Guildford League and Byfleet League (1946) – with an array of tales being obtainable on the British Newspaper Archive.
In order for you some high-quality teaching at a venue then head all the way down to the Surrey Snooker Academy in Cobham and I’m certain Brian Cox or Gareth White will accommodate your wants for snooker enchancment and no matter targets you’re searching for within the sport, whether or not it’s simply to get pleasure from potting extra balls for enjoyable or in a league, or wish to compete in occasions throughout the nation.
Every now and then, we’ll see if we will discover a participant from the BNA who raised the bar again within the day and doc their development on this web site.
League snooker is OPEN TO ALL so head all the way down to your native snooker or social membership and see if there are any groups obtainable so that you can play in because the league season will quickly be underway in September/October.
Good luck to all who compete in leagues once more quickly, and luxuriate in the remainder of the summer time – and as Barry Stark, coach to World Champion Kyren Wilson says on Youtube, “good luck with that observe”.
Leagues we haven’t targeted on but round Surrey and Hampshire embrace Portsmouth and others. Watch this area.
The British Newspaper Archive is a wash with tales from snooker leagues. For those who’re a snooker geek – you then’ll love the tales on the Archive.
