Ray Reardon’s heartbreaking admission to Ronnie O’Sullivan before world title win

Ray Reardon’s heartfelt conversation with Ronnie O’SullivanBBC

Transcript

00:00What was the missing ingredient that Ray Reardon has so successfully managed to find?

00:10Ray's come down here and he's added a new dimension to my game and I don't want to give

00:15no secrets away but you know he's really improved me in certain areas and you know I think that's

00:20where I need to develop as a player.

00:21She said if you win the world championships will you put these teeth in and I went well

00:26yeah at the time I thought yeah at the time I said yeah.

00:30Embassy world snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan.

00:33Yeah but I thought he was wonderful.

00:35Yeah yeah yeah yeah.

00:38Do you remember that when we went into the Indian restaurant in Wembley and it was I think it was in January it was freezing

00:43and you went and you went in there and you went why am I cold?

00:46They went it's cold outside you went well I'm not outside.

00:53And when we got to know each other he was like father and son really it was wonderful.

01:03He put 10 years on my life it was wonderful fantastic.

01:07You give me probably another three world titles.

01:13Nobody talks to me these days nobody gets in touch with me it's unbelievable.

01:18Listen I think I'm going to be around in March I've got a bit of free time.

01:24Some lunch or something have a chat.

01:28Okay Ronnie thank you very much.

01:32I love that man anything for Ray.

01:41Fantastic.

01:42How was that?

01:43Wonderful.

01:44What do you think about that then?

01:46That's amazing yeah.

01:49People can't believe how close we are really they can't honestly.