Quote Originally Posted by Enoch Mort View Post
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.
Yes, I read that too. According to the BoE website £100 in 1950 is worth £2,850 today. So he was on the equivalent of over £3k per week [ probably more like £5k as I doubt he was paying tax on the £100 !