‘They think they’re better than they are,’ rants Ronnie O’Sullivan in blast at snooker’s new generation

SNOOKER fable Ronnie O'Sullivan has criticised the up-and-coming procreation of young players for their deficiency of enactment ethic.

O'Sullivan is simply a subordinate of snooker's celebrated 'Class of 92' alongside John Higgins and Mark Williams.

The trio turned nonrecreational during the 1992-93 play and went connected to predominate the athletics for years.

According to the Rocket himself, the main property that acceptable them isolated from their rivals was their enactment ethic.

O'Sullivan said: "I deliberation astir erstwhile we were juniors, determination was specified a bully Pro-Am circuit.

"I retrieve I'd question to Wales, Sheffield, Leicester, and play against radical similar Ken Doherty, Peter Ebdon and Anthony Hamilton.

"I would person lone been 11 oregon 12 astatine the time. We were kids, maine and Mark. Higgins ne'er ventured retired of Scotland – helium appeared erstwhile helium was astir 14. I deliberation that was the archetypal we'd heard of John Higgins.

"But maine and Mark were ever playing successful Pro-Ams and inferior events, truthful I deliberation we had a truly bully schooling

"There were nary phones, determination was nary Instagram. There was a antithetic enactment ethic.

"We were overmuch much seasoned, much purist. The mode we came into it, you were possibly a batch much focused."

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O'Sullivan went connected to assertion that galore up-and-coming snooker players deficiency the aforesaid enactment ethic which has led to them reasoning they are amended than they really are.

He continued: "We had that professionalism astir america that possibly the newer procreation [don't have].

"Maybe the newer procreation person had it excessively easy. When we came done the amateur circuit you had to gain your mode done it.

"Now a batch of players crook pro, they deliberation they're good, but truly they're not.

"We had to travel done the hard mode – the juniors, the amateurs, past professionals and enactment our mode up done it.

"So person a batch of different players, but we were successful a aureate epoch for snooker I suppose."