Interesting news from the guys over at Foul4.com tonight as they are reporting that world number one Ronnie O’Sullivan has become the latest player to sign up to the new Snooker Players Association…
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If accurate, this is surely a significant boost for the fledgling organisation as it seeks to establish itself as a credible body on behalf of snooker players everywhere.
Given the various issues and controversies that seem to crop up all too often inside the game it strikes me as surprising that such a body has not been established before now. Now that steps have been taken to establish the Association however, I would be disappointed if too many players were to opt out and even more so with the presence of Steve Davis as President and now Ronnie.
How much success the SPA will have in practice remains to be seen but if they can fulfil their stated aims of adding more ranking events to the calendar and helping to avoid situations like that which affected Bahrain last season, then it can only be a positive development for everyone…