Ronnie O’Sullivan makes snooker rival ‘sick’ as tensions ‘escalate’Ronnie O’Sullivan is on a collision course towards a snooker ‘crisis’ despite recent Masters and World Grand Prix titles.
Snooker star Mark Williams has admitted the Ronnie O’Sullivan controversies have left him “sick” and hopes face-to-face crisis talks can be held to resolve them.
The Rocket is under investigation by the World Snooker Tour (WST) over his astonishing tirade against Ali Carter and continues to threaten to retire from the sport.
Tensions between O’Sullivan and snooker bosses are almost at boiling point.
The Rocket, who has yet to find out if he will be punished after telling Carter in a ranting tirade after the Masters final that he “needs to get his damn life together” and claiming that he ” had problems,” is still under investigation by the WST. for his comments.
His father, Ronnie O’Sullivan Snr, launched a series of social media tirades against WST bosses and former president Barry Hearn.
He believes his son is overworked and has accused snooker bosses of not looking after their star attractions, going so far as to claim they wanted O’Sullivan to lose in his World Open qualifier.
Williams believes the frustrations are not doing snooker any good in the grand scheme of things and urged O’Sullivan and his perceived enemies to get together in the same room and air their grievances, because they had had enough of the negative headlines about the sport.
“It’s unfortunate,” Williams said. «I’m tired of seeing things in the newspapers.
I wish everyone could get together, sit in a room and discuss their differences behind closed doors and see if we can resolve this issue.
“There’s no point in going back and forth between the press and always having bad press, it’s actually not good for the game.
I think it will come to a head soon, I don’t know what will happen. Who knows?”
