John Higgins On Admiring Ronnie O’Sullivan, Disagreeing With Mark Williams And Crucible Pain – Snooker Freaks

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John Higgins has not enjoyed York over the years but is confident in his game at the UK Championship (Picture: Getty Images)

John Higgins shares greatness, longevity and legendary status with his fellow Class of 92 members, but he does not necessarily shares opinions with them on snooker.

Higgins heads to the UK Championship this weekend for the 28th consecutive season, hoping to lift the title for a fourth time, what would be a first since 2010.

Despite now being well into their forties, Higgins, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Williams are still among the favourites for the title, with the Rocket out in front of everybody with the bookmakers.

O’Sullivan and Higgins has a memorable conversation at the Northern Ireland Open recently about why we are not seeing more young players succeed on the baize in the modern game, with the world champion surprised and baffled that youngsters are not sending the old guard into retirement.

Higgins had just beaten 21-year-old Jackson Page 4-3 in Belfast in a superb contest, and the Scot feels it is obvious why young guns aren’t firing to victory more often, because the oldies are more golden than ever.

‘Jackson Page has played me over there and played really, really well,’ Higgins told Metro.co.uk. ‘If he’d have done that 25 years ago against a top player like John Parrott, not taking anything away from him, I’m ranked five, but 30 years ago he plays like that against number five in the world, he’d have probably won that game.

‘You’ve got the top four just now [O’Sullivan, Robertson, Trump and Selby], then Mark Allen playing great, Mark Williams playing as well as ever, I’m still playing good stuff. It’s just so difficult, they’ve just got to bide their time, we can’t go on forever.

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