Now it feels a lot better: everyone is just in a better place. I just want to see her and her daughter [Rouass has a teenage daughter from a previous relationship] and her family, who are like my family, happy.” I love the game,” Ronnie reiterated. “I phoned Steve up about six months ago, I said, ‘Steve, you're ahead of me in the game, but I’d just like to just cross-reference where I am. Am I doing alright, because sometimes I've switched off from it's all about the wins to I just love the game. Is that wrong?’ He praised the Belgian, saying: “I thought Luca was unbelievable. You talk about talent – [in football] you look at someone who does things with the ball and you think: ‘How does he do that?’ And Luca is that player. At 47, he’s been at the top of his game for longer than many of his peers. Yet it wasn’t an easy start for the former ‘bad boy’ of snooker, given his family history (his father was jailed for murder when O’Sullivan was 16) and his battles with drugs, alcohol and depression.

I went to AA and NA. I learned about addiction and struggled for about three or four years, because I just couldn’t accept that I was an addict,” he says today. The Ineos football family, a brood with branches in France and Switzerland, has lately been a little concerned about the neighbours. It’s not so much they are too noisy, it’s just that as Nice and Lausanne-Sport peer through the net curtains, they worry that the folk next door might be putting on a better show. Manchester United know the feeling. Nice, the Cote d’Azur... The Ineos football family, a brood with branches in France and Switzerland, has lately been a... The Ineos football family, a brood with branches in France and Switzerland, has lately been a...Frank Adamson, my first coach, for not spending more time with him in his later years. I feel bad about that. Perspective. I used to zoom in and it would be all catastrophic, now I zoom out and get a bit of perspective. Besides quite a few laughs, many readers will find recognition, reassurance, remedy and revelation in O'Sullivan's candid story. I highly recommend it.' - THE TIMES

Reaching a new stage in his snooker career, Ronnie admitted his love of the game, and his incredible talent, is beginning to outweighing his need to win. and was a major driver of the transatlantic slave trade. Conversely, during the American War of Independence, British troops in the South were badly afflicted with malaria while American soldiers suffered far less because they had long lived with the disease. Elsewhere, the haemophilia endemic in Europe’s interrelated royal families – the “curse of the Coburgs” – led to the fall of both the Spanish and Russian monarchies. Biology determines more than personal destiny. Now, though, he is able to separate his snooker life from his other interests, and the balance has helped him love the sport again. I said, ‘I feel guilty sometimes for just enjoying the game, because I know it takes something away from being a winner. But if I tried to be a winner, I think I just wouldn't want to play anymore because it's too stressful at my age.’ He went, ‘you're doing the right thing. If you can just enjoy it and have fun.’” Ronnie is searingly honest, candidly funny, and thought provokingly brilliant in Unbreakable. I devoured it.' - NIHAL ARTHANAYAKESpain: Parliamentary ceremony in Madrid to mark the 18th birthday of Crown Princess Leonor of Spain. Scottish Business Digest Serica could revive North Sea’s Kyle oil field: 5 need-to-know business stories I put a lot of work into it,” he shared. “Obviously when you do a book, you want it to be authentic and people have got to read it, so we wanted to do the best job we and Tom did, we put our heart and soul into it.”