RONNIE O’SULLIVAN’S SPOTY CLAIM: 'I WOULD HAVE WON IT SEVEN TIMES IF I PLAYED GOLF OR TENNIS'
Ronnie O’Sullivan believes he would have won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award “seven or eight times” if snooker was recognised like golf or tennis. Speaking to promote his exclusive new Eurosport two-hour feature programme, Seventh Heaven, the Rocket revealed his frustration at missing out on the famous SPOTY gong during his illustrious career and said he was arguably Britain's most successful sportsman. O’Sullivan equalled Stephen Hendry’s haul of seven world titles after beating Judd Trump in the Crucible final in May, becoming the oldest player to win snooker’s biggest prize. His run in Sheffield saw him installed as the early favourite for SPOTY 2022, although he has since slipped off top spot following the Lionesses’ historic win at the European Championship on home soil. “If it was taken on your achievements for what you do in the sport, I would have probably won it a few times by now,” O’Sullivan told Eurosport. “So to not even get in the reckoning, I sometimes q...