Thursday 2 May 2024

I lost my respect for Ronnie O'Sullivan. Again.

(Originally posted on Thursday 2 May 2024)

I will never forget nor forgive Ronnie O'Sullivan's behaviour in the frame 4 of the 2022 World Snooker Championship final. In my eyes his behaviour changed the outcome of the whole final, which was won by O'Sullivan. Not good.



Recently I generally had had no problems with O'Sullivan's behaviour, but yesterday I lost my respect for him again. There were 3 incidents I HATED, most importantly the incident with the black ball placement which was NOT the fault of the referee and had NO result on O'Sullivan's next shot – it was impossible to pot the crucial red ball anyway.

Fortunately this time O'Sullivan was punished by the “snooker gods” and lost in a “convincing” way. Very good!