{"id":42826,"date":"2025-04-23T03:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T03:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/42826\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T03:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T03:48:14","slug":"ronnie-osullivan-and-ali-carter-bitter-feud-takes-yet-another-twist-as-fans-spot-off-camera-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/42826\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan and Ali Carter bitter feud takes yet another twist as fans spot off-camera gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong><b>The rivals faced off at the World Snooker Championship on Tuesday afternoon<\/b><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"mol-style-bold\"><strong>They clashed last year when O&#8217;Sullivan told Carter to &#8216;sort his f***ing life out&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"mol-style-bold\"><strong>Fans, though, spotted an eyebrow-raising moment at the Crucible on Tuesday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-1101\/lewis-browning.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LEWIS BROWNING<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  12:55 EDT, 22 April 2025   |  Updated:  12:55 EDT, 22 April 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan&#8217;s bitter feud with Ali Carter has taken yet another turn after fans spotted an eyebrow-raising gesture between the two at the World Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">O&#8217;Sullivan has returned to snooker for the first time since January, with the legend kicking off his campaign against Carter, who he said needs to &#8216;sort his f***ing life out&#8217; after beating him in the 2024 Masters final.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The seven-time world champion&#8217;s 33rd consecutive Crucible appearance had been in doubt, having not competed since snapping his cue in anger at the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/champions_league\/index.html\" id=\"mol-dda131a0-1bd8-11f0-aafb-37917be11f46\" class=\"class\" rel=\"noopener\">Champions League<\/a>\u00a0in January\u00a0after a 3-2 defeat by Robert Milkins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He admitted in the build-up that he would have to overcome &#8216;stage fright&#8217; to go toe-to-toe with Carter after struggling with his mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">O&#8217;Sullivan told Mail Sport recently that he was &#8216;burned out&#8217; after &#8216;four years of struggling&#8217; and would make a last-minute call on whether to play in Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But he did indeed play, and potential tension appeared to have been squashed when the two stars were seen shaking hands.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-afb8e6cc9e4d5198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97563633-14636357-image-a-16_1745340305777.jpg\" height=\"432\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Ronnie O'Sullivan's bitter feud with Ali Carter took another turn on Tuesday afternoon\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan&#8217;s bitter feud with Ali Carter took another turn on Tuesday afternoon<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-ec60f26b14e31442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97560601-0-image-a-1_1745339268041.jpg\" height=\"395\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The duo were seen shaking hands after O'Sullivan offered his rival his hand table-side\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The duo were seen shaking hands after O&#8217;Sullivan offered his rival his hand table-side<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d7c6af185269475c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97563843-14636357-image-a-28_1745340535306.jpg\" height=\"513\" width=\"634\" alt=\"O'Sullivan was returning to snooker for the first time since snapping his cue in January\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">O&#8217;Sullivan was returning to snooker for the first time since snapping his cue in January<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In footage shared to social media, O&#8217;Sullivan was seen offering his hand to Carter as the duo sat at the side of the table ahead of their match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Carter accepted, and they also appeared to engage in conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In his only appearance this year, O&#8217;Sullivan lost four of his five matches in the Championship League and snapped his cue before pulling out of his final game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He then dropped out of <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/masters_tournament\/index.html\" id=\"mol-1e7b4c70-1f7f-11f0-a1df-ad8ae44d8638\" rel=\"noopener\">the Masters<\/a>, German Masters, Welsh Open and the World Grand Prix, apologising to spectators and citing a mixture of exhaustion and medical reasons. Such is his disappointment with his form, he has been unable to practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">O&#8217;Sullivan has been a regular fixture at the Crucible since turning professional in 1992 and admitted he had often found his successes a breeze.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Now, however, he has attributed his advancing age to his struggle to fully recover from tournaments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I regret it, but that wasn&#8217;t a spur of the moment thing, I&#8217;d had four years of just really struggling and I just couldn&#8217;t take it anymore,&#8217; O&#8217;Sullivan told Mail Sport of his cue snap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It wasn&#8217;t the losing, it was the playing really, really badly. Four years of bad spells is a long time, so it burnt me out. It ground me down. It&#8217;s been torturous. I got to the point, especially at the start of the season, when I was getting scared to go near the practice table or getting scared to get my cue out of my case.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-489fa1c20bcccb06\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97563849-14636357-image-m-30_1745340542495.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\" alt=\"\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Last year he claimed Carter needs to &#8216;sort his f****** life out&#8217; after their Masters final<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-fb23e50c7bcd540a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97563941-14636357-image-a-31_1745340555375.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"He later apologised for snapping his cue, with he and Carter seemingly engaging in conversation on Tuesday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">He later apologised for snapping his cue, with he and Carter seemingly engaging in conversation on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/teamsheet\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/TS_636_Desktop_Promo_Slim.png\" width=\"636px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I tried playing left-handed for a whole month in August. Then I tried to change my bridge and I was wearing plasters on my fingers. So I have tried a lot of things but I&#8217;ve hit a dead end, which is why I needed to take time out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It&#8217;s not a mental thing. It&#8217;s more of a physical thing. It&#8217;s really hard to explain. Watching my game on TV, I could see what was wrong, but I just didn&#8217;t know how to fix it. In the end, I couldn&#8217;t even watch myself play because I just hated it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I believe that goes back six years to when I started changing my technique to try to find that extra five per cent of consistency. But I&#8217;ve totally made my game worse.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan and Ali Carter bitter feud takes yet another twist as fans spot off-camera gesture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rivals faced off at the World Snooker Championship on Tuesday afternoon They clashed last year when O&#8217;Sullivan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,92,393,4884,23948,1620,10380,93,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-42826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-ronnie-o","13":"tag-sheffield","14":"tag-snooker","15":"tag-sport","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114385237852533444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}