21/04/2025
👀 | Ronnie O’Sullivan will play arch nemesis Ali Carter in the first round of the World Championship.
Here is a timeline of their bitter feud in quotes:
2018 - O’Sullivan: "If someone’s going to shoulder-barge into me, do I have to walk around him, tiptoe or do a little curtsy as if he’s the Queen or the King? Sometimes you have to stand your ground. I’m not a limbo dancer, you know."
2019 - Carter: "[Ronnie] came over to me, he doesn’t need to speak to me, and he came over and said, 'Ali, I’d just like to apologise and there’s no hard feelings' and he shook my hand. So I thought to myself 'hats off to the man.”
2020 - O’Sullivan: "I still feel that I was in the right, so that apology that they say that I said was definitely not an apology."
2024 - Carter: "It’s disgusting quite frankly. No one wants to say anything do they? (O’Sullivan) snotting all over the floor and all that. I mean it’s outrageous behaviour from a top professional."
2024 - O’Sullivan: "He’s got issues. F***ing why has he got issues with me? I’m not having it. I don’t care, grow some balls... The more he brings it on, the more I f***ing punish him every time. He’s just digging a grave for himself. I don’t give a f. That’s it, I’ve said my piece."
You will be able to cut the tension with a knife when these two meet again at the Crucible.
