Snooker great Ronnie O'Sullivan has banned his own dad from attending the World Snooker Championship.
Snooker great Ronnie O'Sullivan has banned his own dad from attending the World Snooker Championship.
He is currently partway through his last 16 match against Welshman Ryan Day, and holds a slender 5-3 lead after the first session.His dad, O'Sullivan Sr, missed some of his son's famous career victories due to an 18-year stint in prison for the murder of Bruce Bryan. "I remember when I was a kid, eight years old and nine, and his presence at a competition used to put so much pressure on me. If I missed a shot I could hear his response - 'You’re throwing it away…'"He loved watching me practice. He and his mates in the snooker club, him holding court as always but almost never taking his eyes off me."
If he wins the Worlds then it will be the first time in his illustrious career that he has lifted all three in the same season, and he would be only the fourth player in snooker history to do.
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