He certainly craves attention with the way he behaves when he has the limelight, comes across as a complete prick of a chap to be honest.
I heard a good interview with him before on a running podcast, he said if he had a choice between being a world champion runner or a world champion snooker player he'd pick world champion runner all day long, he said snooker just pays the bills.
Wouldn’t surprise me in the least if there is a number of football players who are the same. Don’t enjoy the game but pays the bills.
Top sportsmanship from Mark Williams last night. Frame was fairly tight and it was the decider for Ronnie and Williams touches the Yellow ball. The ref and Ronnie didn’t see it. Williams tells the ref and results in a free ball for Ronnie. Nearly cost him the game but it went down to a respotted black ball.
Not to say that it isn't decent of him, he would be crucified if some viewers spotted it on tv and he didn't point it out to the umpire. The players are aware of this too.
15 mins of pure wizardry from Ronnie there, but what was he thinking at the end of the frame before those 2?
He said in the Interview after that game, he didn’t want to do what happened in the previous game and give away 40 odd points and dick around trying to hit the ball. Said he just wanted to smash it and let Selby finish out the frame and move onto the next frame. Selby wasn’t happy at all because he said he felt he showed the game disrespect acting like that. Different strokes for different folks I guess .
Cant say I agree with Selby in this one. Regardless of who you are and how good you are there are times on a snooker table where the ONLY option is the old " 6 pockets - hit it hard enough, it has to eventually reach one of them" its basic physics. You could tippy tap away for 15 minutes like McGill had to yesterday and give away 28 points, and lose the frame, OR batter the balls around he table, hope for the best, and at worst - loose the frame, or with a bit of luck, fluke your way into something and NOT loose the frame. Theres no rules or etiquette laws that say you can only hit a ball so hard. I grant you O Sullivan rubs many people up the wrong way with his flippancy, but just like Trump earlier in the tournament having his say about O Sullivan and Anthony Hamilton pulling out - (saying he knew he had health issues and denied someone else their shot), this self appointing of the snooker police by Trump and Selby makes my arse wink. Didnt hear a lot from either of them when Lee, Higgins or other were being investigated and banned for match fixing.
Absolute bollocks from Selby, if it was disrespectful what is he complaining for because he directly benefited from it. Seen a video earlier of him taking over 5 mins to take a shot in a previous game, now that is disrespectful
Yeah seen a video of a split screen Ronnie doing a 147 in one half and Selby pondering a shot in the other. Ronnie did the 147 quicker than it took Shelby to take 1 shot. I know what I’d rather watch.
6-2 first session over. Wasn’t the best 8 frames. Could have easily been 5-3. Tonight’s sessions I think will be a lot better .
Masters starts today. No Trump. Think he failed a covid test. Good afternoon viewing for the week during lockdown
Researchers have crunched 53 years of data from 47,710 matches to find out who is the greatest snooker player of all time. Is it Davis? Hendry? O'Sullivan? Nope. It's John Higgins apparently. https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0318/1204649-snooker-greatest-player-of-all-time/