Originally Posted by
Enoch Mort
As we are talking about Snooker and Trevor Ford in the same thread, Snooker played a prominent part in the illegal payments that Trevor Ford received at Sunderland which resulted in him being banned. The Chairman of Sunderland used to challenge Trevor to a frame of snooker for a bet of £100 and, as part of the arrangement, the Chairman would lose everytime. Not an insignificant sum for the early 50s.