Talk:1971 World Snooker Championship

Incorrect/Missing scores
It appears that Owen beat Squire 19-18 not 26-11. Also Pulman 25-12 Morgan, Pulman 26-11 Squire are missing. Nigej 09:08, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * And were is a reliable source for these scores? Armbrust  Talk to me  Contribs  09:18, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Found one and corrected. Armbrust  Talk to me  Contribs  09:27, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Venue
"took place at Sydney, Australia" but "Matches were spread round Australia" which is a little confusing. Nigej 09:08, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Removed as unreferenced. Armbrust  Talk to me  Contribs  09:18, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Date
Global Snooker reference says November but article says "It was played in between October and November" (which is not very good English either) Nigej 09:08, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Corrected. Armbrust  Talk to me  Contribs  09:18, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Major rewrite
I've done a major rewrite of this article, based mainly on the Sydney Morning Herald which is available online through Google newspapers. Sadly some days are missing including 31 Oct and the whole of November. Some snippets are to be found in The Times and The Glasgow Herald.

The previous article was mainly based on http://web.archive.org/web/20101228164822/http://www.global-snooker.com/professional-snooker-tournaments-archive-world-championship-1971.asp and http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/EventResults.aspx?EventKey=41 which seem to be copies of each other.

cuetracker has more detail and seems to largely based on the SMH.

The old article was full of errors: "between October and November 1970" when it started in September, "in Sydney, Australia" when it was at various locations in NSW + Brisbane, "Spencer also made the highest break of the tournament with 126" when Charlton had a 129, "In the final, Spencer compiled three centuries in successive frames (105, 107, 126)" which is not true, Reardon/Morgan match "was declared null and void, as Morgan missed final session" when Reardon had already won the match 20-10. The article did have Simpson/Pulman score as 22–15 which is as reported in the SMH, although the reference given makes no sense (global-snooker and snookerdatabase had 21-16 for this match). Interestingly Reardon/Mans is 21-16 in SMH although previously here and elsewhere the score is given as 22-15.

The table in global-snooker and snookerdatabase has frames difference and points column although these are never reported in SMH.

SMH is missing from Google newspapers for the final few matches. The last table is after match 13 (20 October edition). On 22 October, after Reardon's win over Morgan (match 14), his 3rd win, the SMH reports that he had qualified for the semi-finals, joining Spencer who also had 3 wins. This makes sense since, at that stage, only two other players can get to 3 wins (winner of Charlton/Owen match + Simpson if he beats Mans). However the main confusion is over how the semi-final draw was organised. The 22 October SMH reports that Reardon will play Spencer in the second semi-final. This is where the main confusion is. At the time Reardon and Spencer still had to play each other and Charlton, Owen and Simpson also one match to play. So the final order of the group was still undecided and the semi-final draw can't have been based on the 1v4, 2v3 system that we might expect. Maybe it was based on seedings or some system to try to get an Australian finalist, but it's completely unclear.

Prize money remains unclear although £2,333 for the winner is quoted in some source (which is perhaps 5,000 A$) Nigej (talk) 10:42, 3 March 2016 (UTC)