The British newspaper "The Sun" has confirmed the death of the international snooker legend, Willie Thorne, at the age of 66, due to a respiratory failure.
The newspaper reported that the British Thorne was transferred to the hospital last week, following a dangerously low blood pressure, where he was fighting blood cancer courageously, before he surrendered and was transferred to the intensive care room, then his condition worsened last Sunday evening in light of respiratory failure , And into a coma that later claimed his death.
Thorn is a familiar name in the world of snooker in the eighties of the last century, after he reached the quarter-finals of the world snooker championship in 1982 and 1986, and he was one of the characters with huge physical structure when playing at the snooker table.
It is reported that Thorne was diagnosed with leukemia last March, and since that date he has been hospitalized with the aim of blood transfusions and treatment of the disease.
Thorne is a close friend of both English football legend Gary Linker and his fellow snooker Bear Morgan at eight, so the news of his death is a shock to Gary Lineker, who tweeted on social media, with the phrase: "I am very saddened to hear that my friend Thorne has died."