NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
It was as friendly as ever between good pals Mark Allen and Jordan Brown before their UK Championship clash, but Ronnie O’Sullivan cannot understand the pleasantries.
Allen and Brown are close mates and practice partners and play each other for the first time as professionals in the last 32 of the UK Championship on Saturday.
Ahead of their match at the Barbican in York they were chatting away in the practice room, then instead of the pre-match handshake they had a nice friendly hug.
The world champion can’t get his head round why you would want to be so friendly with an opponent ahead of a huge match, saying it is not the route he would be going down.