Just Stop Oil protest not the only bad news for the sport – but entertainment at the Crucible is perhaps the best it’s ever been
hen a Just Stop Oil activist disrupted the world championship snooker match between Joe Perry and Robert Milkins in its early stages on Monday night, the players looked suitably bemused.
PT Barnum famously declared that there is no such thing as bad publicity but the American showman might have revised his opinion on seeing Monday’s events unfold. While there’s no doubt they have their supporters, the protesters’ actions have been roundly criticised, and one suspects none of the snooker fans present in the theatre or watching at home will be rushing to glue their hands to the Sheffield Parkway dual carriageway in solidarity any time soon.
The cloud that briefly enveloped the table on Monday night isn’t the only one under which this year’s world championship is being played. On Monday, a hearing intowill begin and play out in tandem with the far more edifying spectacle unfolding at the Crucible. Meanwhile in the most recent of his impassioned rants about the state of snooker and how appalling it all is, Ronnie O’Sullivan stated that the current annual prize pot is nowhere enough for players lower down the rankings on the 128-man tour to earn a decent living, and called for an increase.
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