Clive Everton
British sports commentator
Died when: 87 years 20 days (1044 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Clive Harold Everton MBE (born 7 September 1937) was a sports commentator, journalist, author and former professional snooker and English billiards player.
He founded Snooker Scene magazine, which was first published (as World Snooker) in 1971, and continues as editor as of September 2021.
He has authored over twenty books about cue sports since 1972.He began commentating on snooker for BBC radio in 1972, and for BBC Television from 1978 until 2010.
In the snooker boom years of the 1980s, he commentated alongside Ted Lowe and Jack Karnehm, and became the leading commentator in the 1990s.
As an amateur player, he won junior titles in English billiards, and the Welsh billiards title several times.He was five-times runner up in the English amateur billiards championship, and twice a semi-finalist at the world amateur championship.
In snooker, he partnered Roger Bales as they won the United Kingdom National Pairs Championship.Everton turned professional in 1981, achieving a highest ranking of 47th in the world in ten years as a snooker professional.
He reached a peak of ninth place in the professional billiards rankings, and remained in the top 20 ranked players even into his sixties.
Everton played county-level tennis for Worcestershire for 13 years, and once managed Jonah Barrington, the former world number one squash player.
In 2017, he was inducted into the Snooker Hall of Fame, and he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to snooker.
