“My tombstone will not say ‘This is the man who took the World Championships away from the Crucible’.” The words of now-retired World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn when a contract was signed in 2017 to keep the World Snooker Championship at Sheffield’s Crucible theatre.
How much longer the sport’s most prestigious event will remain at the venue which has hosted it for 47 years is again being debated though, with the existing hosting and broadcast contracts up for renewal in three years’ time.
The news ahead of this year’s World Championship, which…
