by Pink Ball » 13 Nov 2016 Read
I think John Higgins is a lovely man who made a terrible mistake six years ago. He was found guilty of a very serious offence and in my opinion (and it’s only my opinion) he was punished very leniently (only suspended for six months).
He was rightly found not guilty of another more serious offence (match fixing), which was 100 per cent the right decision. You can’t jail someone for murder if they haven’t killed anyone. Get it?
But conveniently, Higgins being found not guilty of this more serious charge allowed some clowns to peddle the myth that he’d done nothing wrong and was fully exonerated. Cue a lot of obnoxiousness by snooker fans.
As a person, John Higgins comes across very well and I don’t think he deserves to have this thrown at him in terms of his worth as a person. We all make mistakes, even if this was a huge one. As a snooker player, I hate to see him winning, and I will never apologise for that. In fact, I cannot understand the mentality of people who do shout for him, or worse again celebrate his wins just to get under people’s skins. Or try to silence people who’re perfectly entitled not to respect him as a snooker player. It’s wrong, and it’s stupid.
Many of these same people try to peddle the line that Ronnie is the second coming of Satan, and chastise him for pulling out of tournaments (which is annoying, but is his right), or point to any little infraction at all as a stick to beat him with (I mean honestly, who gives a rubbish if he doesn’t want to hit a 147?). I don’t mind people disliking Ronnie for what he was like pre-Steve Peters (I’m actually in that boat myself), because he was a bit of a mong back then, and while I love watching him play I still can’t warm to him.
I’ve not posted here in a while, because I can’t stand some of the posters here for thinking they’re superior for not supporting Ronnie. I was irked by the comments of one poster who doesn’t like me (for that I can’t blame him), but said I wasn’t around Snooker Island because I don’t love snooker and I’m just a Ronnie fanboy. I’ve watched snooker for decades, and I don’t particularly like Ronnie O’Sullivan - yet one poster couldn’t think of any greater insult than to call me a Ronnie fan. That says it all for me.
Some people support Ronnie and they’re tits, others support Ronnie and they’re not tits. Some people don’t support Ronnie and they’re tits, and other don’t support Ronnie and they’re not tits.
You don’t become a good snooker fan by not supporting Ronnie O’Sullivan. Now go and buck yourselves.