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Pot Black was a snooker tournament in the United Kingdom broadcast on the BBC.Each match was contested over a single frame, where other tournaments were significantly longer.The event carried no ranking points, but played a large part in the popularisation of the modern game of snooker.The event was first held in 1969 with a field of eight players and ran annually until 1986.
1969. Última edición. 2007. Organizador. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. [ editar datos en Wikidata] Pot Black a fue un torneo de snooker que se celebró en el Reino Unido entre 1969 y 2007. 1 . En 1969, David Attenborough, entonces encargado de la BBC2, encomendó la creación de una serie de televisión con este ...
Pot Black ran until 1986, by which time it had become a victim of its own success, overshadowed by the coverage of professional snooker on television. It was revived from 1991 to 1993 and again in ...
9 de feb. de 1990 · 534 subscribers. Subscribed. 86. 10K views 5 years ago. This episode of Pot Black features two of snooker's most thrilling players - Alex Higgins, the reigning World Champion and Jimmy White,...
23 de jul. de 2019 · 50 years ago 'Pot Black' aired on BBC television for the first time, demonstrating the new BBC Two colour service, and became an immediate success following its launch on 23 July 1969. The game...
29 de feb. de 2020 · Despite its tremendous success, Pot Black only ran until 1986 (with a few revivals in the 90s and 00s) where mainstream professional snooker took its place in TV coverage. Without Pot Black, the whole landscape of snooker may be completely different.
"The pot calling the kettle black" is a proverbial idiom that may be of Spanish origin, of which English versions began to appear in the first half of the 17th century. It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection , [1] or ...
