He’d fallen out of a window at his partners flat and broke his ankle, still kept playing 
Went to see an exhibition match between Jimmy White & John Virgo when i was a kid. Virgo was an old pro too. Been around the circuit all his life but probably best remembered for Big Break! I’ll see if i can find the photo i had with them.
The story of jimmys dead brother
You would be forgiven for thinking this was all a practical joke or shoddy tabloid reporting, but no, this story is 100% true, with The Whirlwind himself opening up about the event in his book, ‘Second Wind’.
When remembering the unusual events of 1996, White claimed: “We were so sad. We’d been drinking in the pub the night before the funeral and the bill came to £4,600. It was a proper drink. We were all crying and so I told my sister we were going to get Martin.
“I kicked the door of the undertakers and the lock fell off. Just like that, it opened! I went in, there was no alarm. He was there, in his suit, so I phoned a driver and we took him out and carried on drinking. We felt we had to spend more time with him