Suzy Hutchinson / 27 April 2025 / Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Venues and Arenas, Sports & Leisure

Ronnie O Sullivan Come and Play Snooker Again Soon Please

There’s so much love here in our house for Ronnie O’ Sullivan.

Can Ronnie O’Sullivan do it? It’s the question on every snooker fan’s lips.

He’s the 7 times world snooker champion and an absolute legend here in Sheffield.

Even though he was born in Wordsley in the west midland and grew up in Chigwell in Essex where he still lives we always love seeing him and his dramatic return to World Championship level snooker has got the worlds eyes on our city and in what has been a depressing few years for not just Yorkshire but the whole of the north of England it’s so great to see the excitement return and people actually getting out and about socialising and chatting about life in ways we haven’t seen for ages.

Ronnie “The Rocket' O Sullivan is aiming to become the first man in this modern snooker era to win the championship eight times. His match with qualifier Pang, who is ranked 27th in the world, resumes today at 14:30pm . We have already cancelled lunch.

O'Sullivan won the closing five frames in his 10-4 cleanup over Ali Carter in the first round and sprinted into a 4-0 lead against Pang, helped along with a few decent breaks of 58, 91, 50 and 63.

I have to say as someone who grew up watching Pot Black I am super excited to see this return of the old guard with O'Sullivan, Higgins and Williams all in contention for at least a quarter final if not the whole shabang.

Interestingly they all joined the professional tour in 1992, and 33 years later still formidable competitors on Sheffield’s grandest sporting stages.

We’ve got nine days to go of this championship. I’d be absolutely ecstatic to see Ronnie lift the trophy, he’s had a few really bad years and well I think he’s actually going to delight us and astonish us all.