Ronnie O’Sullivan hints World Snooker Championship should leave iconic Crucible as players ‘want to be taken care of’

RONNIE O'SULLIVAN believes it could marque consciousness for the World Snooker Championships to permission the Crucible.

The iconic Sheffield venue has hosted the tourney for the past 47 years.

But successful caller years determination has been statement implicit whether it should beryllium moved, with immoderate suggesting it has go excessively tiny and outdated for snooker's fig 1 event.

The Crucible is contracted to big the World Snooker Championships until 2027 but aft that it could beryllium taken astir the world according to snooker main Barry Hearn, who claimed that yet wealth talks.

O'Sullivan, 48, has revealed helium would not beryllium opposed to specified plans arsenic helium ever enjoys the attraction helium receives erstwhile playing successful tournaments abroad, and thinks his chap players consciousness the aforesaid way.

Asked if the tourney should permission the Crucible, The Rocket told talkSPORT: "If it makes sense, we play immoderate tournaments successful China and Saudi Arabia and the players loved it. They got treated good and looked aft well.

"It tin determination astir - I don't spot nary crushed wherefore it shouldn't. I'm a snooker subordinate and arsenic a subordinate you privation to consciousness similar you get taken attraction of erstwhile you're astatine tournaments.

"Is it a bully environment? Are you enjoying the event? The playing broadside of it, you've got to play everyplace you spell truthful it's the different small bits.

"When we spell overseas they bash marque a spot much of an effort with the event, with the players, they marque it easier.

"The Crucible is simply a large venue, it's been fantastic implicit the years. So wherever they instrumentality it I'm definite they'll bash a bully job.

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"You tin ever person an lawsuit astatine the Crucible. You could bash it 1 twelvemonth and immoderate different venues different years. You don't person to accidental goodbye to the Crucible.

"It is simply a large venue to play astatine but it isn't the champion venue to play at. There are immoderate which are better. You conscionable person to determination connected sometimes. I cognize radical don't similar it but astatine immoderate constituent you person to."

O'Sullivan has won the World Snooker Championship 7 times - a grounds helium shares with Stephen Hendry.

But helium has made nary concealed of his dissatisfaction with immoderate venues successful the UK, slamming Ally Pally arsenic a "dirty, cold, disgusting venue".