BREAKING: Irish teenager Aaron Hill stuns six-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan ☘️🔴⚫️
The 18-year-old from Cork, who is ranked 115 in the world, knocks the Rocket out of the European Masters with a 5-4 triumph in round two #Snooker pic.twitter.com/k5E06SGfJM
— Francis Keogh (@HonestFrank) September 24, 2020
Last night.
Eighteen.
Any excuse.
European Masters: Ronnie O’Sullivan beaten by teenage rookie Aaron Hill (BBC)
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Doubt’ ja Kid!
When I was still a young un and in college we had a snooker club. We had big dreams of knocking the UCD or Trinity lads and lasses off their perches.
My contribution? I had a waistcoat (part of a suit, and never worn with it) and some white gloves. I did my best impression of John Smyth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smyth_(snooker_referee)).
I was also clowning at the time, and had a lot of fun when cleaning the cueball to have it come out a different colour :-)
The best part of this is Ronnie’s very recent comments on the young generation of snooker players – https://www.eurosport.com/snooker/world-championship/2019-2020/ronnie-o-sullivan-snooker-s-young-players-are-so-bad-i-d-have-to-lose-an-arm-to-fall-out-of-top-50_sto7832104/story.shtml
It’s a definite schadenfreude moment.