Ronnie O’Sullivan’s dad makes Barry Hearn jibe after son’s dramatic Masters win
There’s no relaxation for the depraved regardless of Ronnie O’Sullivan‘s success on the 2024 Snooker Masters.
‘The Rocket’ strengthened his file because the match’s most prolific champion of all time after clinching his eighth Masters crown, two away from nearest rival Stephen Hendry. However, he barely had a night to experience his newest triumph earlier than he was again on the street for his subsequent competitors.
And O’Sullivan’s namesake father felt sympathy for his son as he offered a Monday morning replace, taking a jab at Matchroom Sport founder Barry Hearn within the course of. The seven-time world champion has clashed with snooker‘s overseers on quite a few events previously however stays simply the largest draw within the sport.
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“Up this morning, ‘he looks well eh,'” learn the put up from O’Sullivan Snr on X (previously Twitter) alongside a photograph of a weathered-looking Rocket nonetheless wearing his match duds. “Look at that whistle ain’t had time to take it off. Off to Leicester for another tournament. Back on the Baz [Barry Hearn] earner hamster wheel.”
The subsequent competitors in query is the WST World Grand Prix, which started on the Morningside Arena on Monday. There, 48-year-old O’Sullivan will face China’s Pang Junxhu within the first spherical as he chases a shot on the £100,000 grand prize.
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Whistle and flute is cockney rhyming slang for go well with, referencing the wrinkled state of O’Sullivan’s apparel having not modified since coming from 6-3 all the way down to beat Carter 10-7. Not that he regarded like he had a care on the planet, smiling extensive after his win at Ally Pally added one other £250,000 to the O’Sullivan coffers.
O’Sullivan Snr has turn out to be extra vocal on social media relating to his son’s profession and the game of snooker as an entire. In November, he replied to a WST put up selling the International Championship in Tianjin, China, with a textual content from an nameless supply that stated gamers had been being “gagged” from voicing their opinions for concern of authorized threats from World Snooker.
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The elder Ronnie was launched from jail in 2010 after serving 18 years of a life sentence for the homicide of Bruce Bryan, former driver for London gangster Charlie Kray.
O’Sullivan is on tempo for a Triple Crown sweep having already gained the UK Championship in December. However, he will not be busy on the tour for for much longer after confirming he is set to take two months off forward of the World Snooker Championship in April, the place he’ll goal a record-breaking eighth Crucible crown.
