Why Ronnie O’Sullivan ‘didn’t speak to rival for six months’ and forced to hand him £60k

Snooker symbol Ken Doherty has opened up on winning the Irish Experts in 1998 however simply because Ronnie O’Sullivan had tried positive for marijuana and moved his title removed.

The Rocket crushed Doherty 9-3 in the last however hints of maryjane were found in his framework after a medications test and he was in this way deprived of the honor. Snooker star Tom Passage considers separating ‘in surges of tears’ to wifeTips and Stunts Besides the fact that O’Sullivan’s title removed was, their award cash was traded and he needed to offer his £60,000 to Doherty in spite of winning in Ireland. Doherty, the Irishman who had become title holder the earlier year, has considered the occurrence and how O’Sullivan kept on reprimanding him after that last. “I was disheartened I lost in two finals there, one to Stephen (Hendry) and one to Ronnie,” Doherty told Metro. “Ronnie bombed a medications test for partaking in cannabis and he needed to give me the champ’s check! Duchess of York ‘among well known faces whose subtleties have been spread on Dim Web by Russian programmers’ Simply IN Imprint Allen reverberations Ronnie O’Sullivan as snooker stars stream to Saudi for large payday Ken Doherty took £60,000 after Ronnie O’Sullivan tried positive for a restricted substance. (Picture: Getty) “I took the victor’s check okay, however I didn’t actually feel like I was champion.

He needed to give me the £60,000 and I gave him the £30,000 other participants check, so it’s likely the most costly joint he’s always smoked in his life. “I wasn’t turning the £60,000 down. I didn’t get the prize however the cash mellowed the blow of losing a smidgen. He never addressed me for around a half year a while later! I was informed two or three weeks a while later.

I didn’t think I planned to get anything, he needed to send me a letter of conciliatory sentiment. He was totally destroyed. However, i wasn’t.” At that point, O’Sullivan’s specialist depicted the snooker symbol as “embarrassed” subsequent to fighting with liquor, drugs and emotional wellness all through his profession. In 2013, the Rocket talked about his medication utilization on the visit which at last returned to haunt him against Doherty.

“At the point when I was having my week after week drinking sprees and my confidential life was in bits, I had a splendid year expertly,” he wrote in his collection of memoirs Running. “I got to each Big showdown and thinking, ‘I can hardly stand by till this competition is over cos then there’s no more medication tests, I can go out and crush it.’