I was thrilled to meet one of the real sporting greats at an event last night. Ronnie 'The Rocket' O'Sullivan showed off his genius at the pool table, as well as being an absolute gent. An all too large part of my youth was spent in 'Supa Snooker' in Consett, never quite being able to understand how the guys who play the game on TV make it look quite so easy.
The Rocket is, without a shadow of doubt one of the greatest players ever to pick up a snooker cue. He probably has more natural talent than anybody (with the possible exceptions of Jimmy White and Alex Higgins) in the history of the game.
He was telling me how professional snooker players are spending a lot of time in China - where the sport is massive at the moment and growing all the time. Fingers crossed that the sport now goes from global strength to global strength.
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