Drago is one of those players who is the absolute antithesis of the mechanical/robotic modern day snooker player. He is brilliant, charismatic, exciting and makes people want to play. I know he didn’t win much but a naturally skilful talent
@askbob
2 жыл бұрын
He is brilliant at a open table , his position etc is spot on. He gets confused when things go awkward. That is his biggest weakness. Pleasure to watch , absolute genius.
@drhowslounge
3 жыл бұрын
Like Higgins Hendry didn't know what was Hitting Him! Drago, the Hit Man from Malta!
@dvidclapperton
Жыл бұрын
Commentators made it appear as though it was staggering when a Hendty match went close or even if somebody managed to win more than a couple of frames in a session or short length match.
@marcglenwright2185
11 ай бұрын
My favourite snooker player of all time and the amount of times he got beat 5-4 in a best of 9 was always tough to watch ☹️
@shaunigothictv1003
Жыл бұрын
Drago was Batshit crazy. He threatened to set himself on fire in a restaurant in London when the chef refused to serve him a steak well done. There is a retired snooker player on KZitem who gave a video interview about the time he went out for a meal with Drago. He said that Drago was a nice guy but he was completely batshit crazy. . Apparently, Drago poured Vodka on his left forearm in front of the waitor and threatened to set his left forearm on fire with a disposable lighter because the chef refused to cook his steak well done. Drago was asked to leave and he refused so the police were called. He was ejected from the restaurant by the police without incident but his friend was allowed to remain. The next day the manager came back at 8:30am to open up the restaurant and found Drago with a broom, bucket of water soapy, and sponges washing the windows of the restaurant. The manager challenged Drago and when Drago turned round he had the word SORRY scrawled in big Black letters across his forehead with a Black felt tip pen. Apparently Drago had got the hot water from a petrol station down the road and brought his own bucket and sponges from his house. He also brought a hard broom and dustpan and brush which he used to sweep the entire forecourt and paving slabs of the adjacenct building aswell as the actual restaurant itself. He had washed all the windows of the restaurant and swept the entire forecourt of the adjacent building aswell. There is a retired snooker player on KZitem who gave a video interview about the incident. He mentions how he popped back into the restaurant a few days later and the bewildered manager took him to one side and told him about the entire bizzare incident! The manager recalled in detail how bizarre Drago looked with the word SORRY scrawled across his forehead whilst he finished up cleaning the outside of the restaurant. Drago was a certified mental case.
@DavidDavid-kl4ru
Жыл бұрын
Do you have the link to the interview? I'd love to hear it
@williambriggs79
6 ай бұрын
I’d love to see some proof of that .
@andersonsilva332
10 жыл бұрын
Fastest player ive ever seen, with ronnie a close 2nd, but with higher breaks
@Ace1King1
8 жыл бұрын
+Anderson Silva Rickie Fowler wins hands down for speed.
@NoName-eo2mv
2 жыл бұрын
Twitching all over the place at the end drago, was also in hendrys final stages of been a big tournament winner, had lost 97WC 97uk and 98 masters finals and won his last major in 99 WC
@benrichards399
10 жыл бұрын
always wondered if tony drago was ever on for a 147 in a tournament. cuz he's probably the only player who would have got near to ronnies record time!
@Echo-mz6tz
10 жыл бұрын
Drago made a 147 at the benson hedges championship not as fast a O'sullivans, however he has made a 147 in practice in 4 mins a 6 seconds!!!!
@benrichards399
10 жыл бұрын
JOEL WILLIAMS cheers. have u seen that clip of him slapping his own face after a match? weird!
@SuperBugTube
9 жыл бұрын
the tornado record is in the guinness book of records with a 149 maximum^^ look it up and he has one 147. i really like is fuck you attitute, i've allready played him in 9 ball as a kid!
9 жыл бұрын
Ben Richards He has mad a 135 clearance in 3:15 , in his younger years, he told me this sunday in Vienna :) It was not televised.
@tahachihab8226
8 жыл бұрын
+Pál Kriston but you can find this on youtube
@peterchamberlain3957
3 ай бұрын
Loved it when he started hitting himself about when he shook hands with that Scottish player .. funny as!
@mikrusby68
6 жыл бұрын
Hendries face at the end,lol
@scottfreckle237
2 жыл бұрын
Needs re-titled to one of his only wins of his career, he thought he was a natural but he wasn't but because he believed it he never tried to actually learn to play properly, master of his own failure. Hardly any of his shots went in cleanly. He beats Hendry only after Hendry had stopped winning
@paulcareless9965
3 жыл бұрын
With so much talent, he should have won more. He needed someone to teach him when to play safe.
@sugs1191
Жыл бұрын
he just wasn't consistent
@alangrynich3615
3 ай бұрын
No thank God people left him alone to play his natural game far more exciting
@dvidclapperton
Жыл бұрын
It wasn't ususlly a whitewash between Hendry and Drago. Drago even won 6 frames vs Hendry in the 1991 uk quarter final, and took 6 against Hendry once in a best or 25 at the Crucible.
@ianwilliamson2980
3 жыл бұрын
Hendry wasent pleased at end
@Mssmaimone
8 жыл бұрын
Stephen definitely not on a good day, more like he lost than Tony Drago won...
@IcemanRai
8 жыл бұрын
Stfu, Tony Drago is a boss
@kevinwall7906
6 жыл бұрын
maybe a valid comment if the game was 5-4 but Tony WON 5-2. Who gives a crap how Hendry played, he was on the next flight home!
@LYJManchesterUnited
8 жыл бұрын
Everytime he walks it made those carpets sound cheap
@mabbrey
5 жыл бұрын
love hendo
@mikekavalerchik5226
2 жыл бұрын
Difference is that Hendry couldn't make a ball by that point in his career
@dvidclapperton
Жыл бұрын
Same season that Hendry won another world title. You can't do that if you can't make a ball. That wasn't the yips though. Maybe just that he wasn't invincible any longer, Hendry wasn't the only player by then who could rack up a lot of big breaks at that point in his career. The chances or him ever achieving 5 in a rows again at both the Crucible and Wembley were vanishingly small. But the chatces of him winning another triple crown title at that point were still highly realistic even though so many people were quickly writing him off as being finished just because he was no longer golng unbeaten and did not automatically look like by far the overwhelming favourite in the triple crowns right from the off and through each and every round any more.
@DavidDavid-kl4ru
Жыл бұрын
In his Autobiography, Hendry said that over coaching resulted in him losing his natural ability. He ended up concentrating more on his action than the shot.
@ianwilliamson2980
3 жыл бұрын
A pity hendry wasent very gracious when he lost often.
@sugs1191
Жыл бұрын
Hendry was a great sportsman. But these 2 had a bit of needle between them in the 90s at one point.
@ianwilliamson2980
Жыл бұрын
@@sugs1191 i dont think so hendry was in class of his own really then
@marcglenwright2185
11 ай бұрын
@@sugs1191 yeah I remember Drago went mad with him cos Hendry said that the best bet of the first round was Steve James to beat Drago in the world championship. Drago beat James something like 10-1 and criticised Hendry in his after match press conference
@Qatari-
5 жыл бұрын
Only successful player in both snooker and pool
@Packgammon
5 жыл бұрын
@Wayne Holmes LOL. An English tournament with red and yellow balls without pocket billiards pros participating isn't a world championship even when the name says so.
@Packgammon
5 жыл бұрын
@Wayne Holmes Google "world championship 2006 8-ball" and Wikipedia will tell you that there was no (official) world 8-ball championship in 2006. No snooker player has more than 10% chance to win against an Efren Reyes or an Earl Strickland in his prime on a race to 11. And on a world championship a player runs into 5 or more of a similar kind = virtually no chance of winning.
@ianwilliamson2980
3 жыл бұрын
Na selby was pool champ .
@dvidclapperton
Жыл бұрын
@@ianwilliamson2980 You mean the "world" pool championship that's known as a poor man's snooker. The big pool world championships is the 9 ball when Sid Waddell kept mentioning "Former world champion" every 5 mnutes to the many former world champions matches he was commentating on.
@dvidclapperton
Жыл бұрын
@@Packgammon Davis, White, O'Sullivan and Drago entered the 9 ball worlds. Why didn't Hendry enter ir?
@benrichards399
10 жыл бұрын
always wondered if tony drago was ever on for a 147 in a tournament. cuz he's probably the only player who would have got near to ronnies record time!
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