High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Snooker has been plagued by allegations of corruption virtually since its inauguration as a professional sport. Retired professional player and BBC commentator, Willie Thorne, concedes that match-fixing has always been a part of snooker, even acknowledging that some of the results in his own matches were bent. The earliest known case of corruption in the game involves Joe Davis, pioneer of the professional game and winner of the first fifteen world championships, who is believed to have "carried" weaker opponents in multi-session matches to maximise the gate revenue. Match-fixing is notoriously difficult to prove, and no professional player has ever been convicted or banned for match-fixing, although three players including Quinten Hann, John Higgins and Joe Jogia are all serving or have served bans on match-fixing related charges. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в...

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