Ronnie O’Sullivan offered major deal by Barry Hearn as sports icon looks beyond snooker

BARRY HEARN is keen to get behind Ronnie O’Sullivan’s proposal for snooker academies across the UK.

O’Sullivan, 49, revealed his potting masterplan during the World Snooker Championship for a series of clubs in the four Home Nations and Ireland.

Ronnie O’Sullivan plans to build snooker academies across the UK Promoter Barry Hearn is keen to back O’Sullivan’s vision

The Rocket reckons him and fellow Class of 92 graduates Mark Williams (Wales) and John Higgins and 1997...