I managed Jimmy White and Alex Higgins in wild heydays – it was just fun Managing two of snooker’s most uncontrollable figures may sound like a serious headache, but Harvey Lisberg says it was just a whole lot of fun.
‘The reaction to the snooker part of the other book was terrific and I reconnected with Jimmy for the first time in 40 years,’ Lisberg told Metro on his motivation behind the new book.
Indeed the tale Lisberg tells of White being bundled into a car and taken to visit Ronnie Kray in prison at the gangster’s instruction is a standout anecdote in the book.
Lisberg worked in management of musicians but branched out into snooker in the early 1980s as the sport approached its boom years.
Later came the Hurricane, with Lisberg taking on a mammoth task in trying to keep the legendary Northern Irishman in check.
