Snooker club erupts after amateur makes history

This is the moment a snooker club erupted after an amateur player made history after recording a maximum 147 break - in a Conservative club in north Manchester.

Lenny De Griffa, 48, potted 15 reds, 15 blacks and the six colours in his one-frame game in the North Manchester Snooker League last week.

It is the first time in its sixty-plus year history that anyone has come close to the feat, which is extremely rare in the amateur game.

And remarkably, Lenny says he has barely practiced and he even started the frame with a foul after nudging the white as he tried to break off.

Video shot by a fellow player shows Higher Blackley Conservative club erupt into raptures as he pots the final black to complete the maximum.

Lenny, who plays for the club's D team, was starting with a 70-point deficit due to the handicap system in operation in the league.

And that became 74 when he accidentally nudged the white before he broke off.

However after his opponent Mark Ogden broke off, he proceeded to make the history-making clearance.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records the first officially ratified maximum break was made by Joe Davis in 1955.

The first televised 147 was made by his namesake, the legendary Steve Davis in 1982 at the Lada Classic at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in Oldham.There have been reported maximums in amateur leagues in other parts of the country.

However Scott McDougal, Records Secretary at the North Manchester League, said it was unquestionably a first for them and said it was almost unheard of in the Greater Manchester and North West Region.