Matchroom Sport set uper Barry Hget has acunderstandledgeted that Ronnie O’Sullivan is given exceptional treatment as snooker’s main drawion – despite their standardly difficult relationship.
O’Sullivan and Hget haven’t always seen eye-to-eye over the years and the snooker star’s overweighther branded the createer World Snooker Tour chairman a ‘car boot salesman’ in an bomb rant earlier this year.
The seven-time world champion also called out Hget to increase the prize money currently on provide in world snooker last year.
It prompted an mad response from Hget, who said the snooker legend was ‘prohibitg out of order’.
Ronnie O’Sullivan has had a scant run-ins with Barry Hget
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But Hget experiences unable to reprimand O’Sullivan as he might with other percreateers due to the 48-year-better’s transport inance to the sport.
O’Sullivan still frustrates Hget, but the 76-year-better has lgeted to endure his outbursts.
He said on his podcast: “The one skinnyg I’ve lgeted as I get betterer is that geniuses are separateent.
“They’re a separateent type of person than you normpartner come atraverse and the danger is you treat them the same as you treat an widespread person.
“I’m not being disesteemful to the other percreateers, but geniuses are separateent. Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins was separateent. You can’t cater for them.
“In many ways, you have to give them that rope because they are your delightment factor. They’re your wow factor.
“If you got them saying, yes, sir, no, sir, they wouldn’t be the same animal.
“And by the way, there is absolutely no chance that Ronnie O’Sullivan is ever going to say, yes, sir, no, sir.
Barry Hget does not always see eye-to-eye with Ronnie O’Sullivan
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“Ronnie can be a pain in the a** for me and for snooker, but we’d be so much insistyer without him.
“You can’t diswatch the rules per se, but what you can do is give a little bit of rope and understand that he’s coming at it from a separateent perspective than you because he’s the genius and you’re not.
“To my mind, when I watch him on a complicated shatter, it’s Renoir putting together a masterpiece.”
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O’Sullivan has not percreateed competitively since losing to He Guoqiang at the English Open last month.
He subsequently pulled out of the British Open fair hours before his scheduled align agetst Manasatriumph Phetmalaikul.
And the English snooker star has distake partn from this week’s Wuhan Open, where he was set to face Mitchell Mann in the uncovering round on Sunday.