Steve Davis & Friends was an entertaining snooker based series produced by Sky and involving interviews with individuals who had some form of significant involvement in the history of the game. In this episode from 2000, Tony Knowles discusses his most notorious moments from his heyday, including the press scandals from the mid-80’s and the most famous victory of his career over the man interviewing him. Difficulties adapting to the modern day game are also discussed at length.
Fondly remembered as snookers very own Casanova from the games heyday in the 1980’s, Tony Knowles was also one of the most fluent and stylish players of his era as this collection of archive footage highlights. If you have any Knowelsy footage or memorabilia to trade or even if you’d just like to share your very own TK memories then please get in touch.
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a great player tony was .but I couldn't help but pmsl when quite often davis looks at him like what the fck are you babbling on about
never understood the pin up tag he was given. he looks like benny from cross roads ffs.
knowles was crap , how he beat steve 10-1 is beyond me
never got anywhere near it again , did he ??
Knowlsey, hey Knowlsey, ey up, Knowlsey, Knowlsey, Knowlsey………………….. Oi, Knowlsey!!!!!!
I bet having to face that arrogant prick of a manager Barry Hearn afterwards was worse than losing.
11 OUT OF 10.!
steve davis after the personality transplant
OMG when TK is talking about endurance and concentration. He's right. HE DOESN'T STOP TALKING. How did he not win more?
How can Steve grin about the Knowles defeat when Tony has just assassinated the idea of Steve being outplayed by a really stellar performance in 1982? Probably by a desire to acquiesce to an establishment where every dual is deemed replete with great play both ways; yawn, and while you're at it, please, please tighten up the pockets and give us some proper drama in 2019!
Surely if a taxi driver gets to the semis this year b2019.
Surely it's an easy game 😉👌
Joking of course what a time to be a snooker player
Alan Burnett if you still alive fancy a practice I will hit a few centuries again but we have a good game.
Burnet Alan the best player I ever seen live he was deadly but give me a chance and few centuries back to you.
Great player and good man he poison my drink in last 16 crafty wee fecker 😉
Ok at 1-1 you hit 3 70s and an 80: you must have drugged me with your sore neck 😎
I thought this video was Davis interviewing Knowles about his career, not Knowles putting Davis right about what was wrong with Steves game at the time of filming! My god, Tony can talk, and for a time he walked the walk, but he really does have verbal diarrhoea!
just watched this from long way back Tony talks intelligent about snooker but l am playing snooker of my life at 48..
Great tune great bloke underrated david essex luv Kim xxxxxxx and snookers Thailand boys are great in snooker too xxxx
Brilliant conversation.
tony was and is a class guy we used to meet him in the pubs and clubs every year in Tenerife through out the 80,s, ,he was some man was tony , allways down to earth and humble had time for everybody ,even more so if you had a pelmet on ! he once got to two in the world but with the fillys he was definitely number one in the rankings.
Tony loves a Chatter
The negatives are only in your own mind.
But when you start missing easy shots for no reason its going to destroy your coincidence not matter what you think .
45:12 one of these guys has a good handshake. Knuckle crack!
Fantastic interview.
Great contrast – a warm human being interviewed by Barry Hearn's robot bumboy.
Steve achieved more in one month than knowles in his entire career
Table 9 @ Tricky's, only people from Horwich will get that.
I met Tony at Skegness Pontins in '92
Tony came over really well in this interview. Open hearted with great northern honesty and humility, and without any 'side' or attitude. Steve, like many successful modern sportsmen and women, is still the same obsessed ego. His eyes and mouth are saying different things. Time has still not returned the character and personality that it took away from him when it put a cue in his hand.
is tony on medication or half cut here
Same strategy almost/should have beaten Thorburn in another world semi but Tony bottled it.
Don’t see the resemblance.
He got to the quarter finals in 1983 I was hoping to see Tony Knowles v Steve Davis in the final but sadly Cliff Thorburn got there against Steve Davis
I'm heterosexual but I wouldn't kick Tony's arse out of bed! 😜
Two top men good interview but I would have loved too talk to them having a few beers and the camera off it would have been a great night good luck to Tony and Steve x
Davis would have beaten him convincingly had they met in the final, he was too ruthless in the world finals at that time anyway.
This was before Tony became a woman beating fat has been
It's like watching an early episode of Ellen.
Fascinating interview between the Nugget and Tony Knowles.
Don't get this… Surely Tony Knowles should be interviewing Steve Davis. Like who the hell is actually interested in a serial loser like Knowles and how he didn't make it. Asking 6 times world champ Steve questions about his career would be more beneficial to wanna be snooker stars. This interview is like Mother Teresa interviewing a bad nurse on how to deliver care
Great conversation between Steve and Tony, not seen this before!
Couldn't get a straight answer out of Tony. He's not the brightest star in the sky and I can only remember him as a 10% Jimmy White. As for Davis, he just bossed everyone about on the table until Hendry came and then Davis just couldn't cope with the fact that Hendry could do what he did and even better. Hendry burned out fast too as Ronnie and Higgins came about to challenge Hendry and after his 7th world titles he was gone.
KNOWLES RODE EVERYTHING WITH A PULSE
Steve is one of the best but he was a pompous twat lol
That was brilliant. I hardly watch the snooker nowadays.
Steve Davis was playing bad that day. That's why he won … I so wished Alex Higgins played a match with Tony but they never met at the snooker table
Only in the 2000s could someone find enough spare time to talk about Tony Knowles' career… lol
Tony's a wife beater.
Steve being hit by Train
Do you have any more episodes and is this the full episode?
A gentleman Tony Knowles
Steve Davis interviews Steve Irwin.
Do you have the one with Terry Griffiths?
I remember the Eddie Charlton match, what a come back..
Amazing insight into what may happen when you over analyse your game and try to train out the impulsiveness that made you a great player in the first place. The complete opposite of Steve who tried to train in aggressiveness when he should have tried to improve what he was already a master of, his defensive play and counter attack..