Trivia

He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to Snooker. He is a broadcaster and journalist.

He founded the Snooker Scene magazine, which he edited for half a century.

Began his career commentating on the BBC in 1978 and did so up until 2010.

Everton played county-level tennis for Worcestershire for 13 years and once managed Jonah Barrington, the former world number one squash player.

His last match in professional snooker before retiring from competition was a 3-5 defeat by Mark Wildman at the 1991 British Open.

After graduating, he taught English and Liberal Studies at Halesowen College of Further Education, before a career change into freelance journalism.

Everton authored over twenty books about cue sports from 1972 onwards.

Everton's most notable win as a professional snooker player was a 5-2 defeat of Patsy Fagan in the last 64 of the 1982 Professional Players Tournament, representing the furthest that he ever reached in a major tournament.

In 2022 the British Open tournament trophy was renamed the "Clive Everton Trophy".

He was the editor of the magazine Billiards and Snooker, owned by the Billiards Association and Control Council, from the December 1966 issue until the February 1971 issue. According to Everton, he was sacked at the instigation of Jack Karnehm, the Chairman of the Billiards and Snooker Control Council (as the Billiards Association and Control Council had renamed itself) for "giving professionals publicity".

He reached a peak of ninth place in the professional billiards rankings and remained in the top 20 ranked players even into his sixties.

Everton turned professional in 1981, achieving a highest ranking of 47th in the world in ten years as a snooker professional.

He was five-times runner up in the English amateur billiards championship and twice a semi-finalist at the world amateur championship.

In snooker, he partnered Roger Bales as they won the United Kingdom National Pairs Championship.

In the snooker boom years of the 1980s, he commentated alongside Ted Lowe and Jack Karnehm, and became the leading commentator in the 1990s.

In 2017, he was inducted into the Snooker Hall of Fame and was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to snooker.

As an amateur player, he won junior titles in English billiards and the Welsh billiards title several times.

Clive Everton was a sports commentator, journalist, author and professional snooker and English billiards player.

He was educated at King's School, Worcester, City of Birmingham College of Commerce, and later at Cardiff University, where he obtained a B.A. in English.

In the September 2022 issue of Snooker Scene, Everton announced that he would not be continuing as editor. From November 2022, Snooker Scene was revived under the ownership of Curtis Sport. Everton continued to work for the magazine as an editorial consultant, also contributing feature articles and reports on billiards events.