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Ronnie: Snooker a car boot sale
- Updated: November 29, 2016
Snooker’s biggest star Ronnie O’Sullivan says the sport is “like a car boot sale” compared to the glamour of F1 and tennis.
The five-time world champion is competing at the UK Championship in York where he came through the first three rounds for the loss of just one frame.
A £175,000 prize is on offer to the winner, while the World Championship will have a top prize of £500,000 from 2018 as part of a five-year plan announced by World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn in 2015.
But O’Sullivan believes only the intervention of billionaires in China, where snooker is popular, will restore the kind of lustre that saw the 1985 …
