{"id":294569,"date":"2023-11-20T15:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=294569"},"modified":"2023-11-20T15:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T15:24:41","slug":"ronnie-osullivan-proved-dad-wrong-for-fearing-for-snooker-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/nba\/ronnie-osullivan-proved-dad-wrong-for-fearing-for-snooker-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie O’Sullivan proved dad wrong for fearing for snooker career"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s father believed his son\u2019s snooker career was \u201cover\u201d when he was sent to prison for murder in 1992. Snooker icon O\u2019Sullivan was 16 and turned professional in the same year his father, who shares his name, murdered dad-of-two Bruce Bryan in a Chelsea nightclub.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Sullivan Snr was found to have stabbed Bryan to death. Bryan was the driver of Charlie Kray, the brother of gangster twins Ronnie and Reggie.<\/p>\n

He spent 18 years in prison until his release in 2010. His only connections with his son during the first part of his trophy-laden career were via phone calls or watching him on television from his prison cell.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Sullivan Snr has now revealed that the Rocket considered giving up the sport in those first few years. Speaking on The Edge Of Everything documentary, which premieres on Tuesday, he blames himself for his son having those thoughts.<\/p>\n

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The 68-year-old said of O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s reaction to his prison sentence: “I didn’t think he was going to play anymore, I thought it was over, I thought it was done, everything was over.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Sullivan Jnr, now 47, has gone on to become one of the most decorated snooker players in the sport\u2019s history. He has won seven world championships and become one of the most recognisable sportspeople in the world.<\/p>\n

“I knew what he was going through. I’ve shared all his snooker tournaments, in his bad times and good times, I’ve been on the phone to him, in prison. And I’ve heard the anxiety in him, just totally collapsing on the phone,\u201d O\u2019Sullivan Snr added on the documentary.<\/p>\n