World champion Terry Griffiths proved that slow and steady can win the race - The Welshman was the first qualifier to win the world snooker championship.

Terry Griffiths, who has died from complications of dementia aged 77, was the rank outsider who in 1979 pulled off one of the biggest shocks in snooker history when he snatched the World Championship from under the nose of Dennis Taylor;

Former world snooker champion Terry Griffiths has died at the age of 77. The Welshman coached some of snooker's greatest players, including Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stephen Hendry