{"id":524782,"date":"2025-10-24T13:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/524782\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:07:10","slug":"snooker-live-judd-trump-vs-john-higgins-northern-ireland-open-updates-other-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/524782\/","title":{"rendered":"Snooker LIVE: Judd Trump vs John Higgins Northern Ireland Open updates | Other | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyren Wilson says he&#8217;d take a pay cut if it meant the\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/world-snooker-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Championship<\/a>, which a prize pot of \u00a3500k for the winner, stayed at the Crucible.<\/p>\n<p>As things stand, the future of the showpiece event is hanging in the balance, with the Sheffield venue&#8217;s hosting deal expiring in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tntsports.co.uk\/snooker\/betvictor-northern-ireland-open\/2025-2026\/why-kyren-wilson-half-prize-money-world-championship-crucible-saudi-arabia-china_sto23233332\/story.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TNT Sports<\/a>\u00a0at Northern Ireland Open, he said: \u201cI would honestly rather have half the prize money and stay at the Crucible, that\u2019s how much I enjoy it there.\u00a0But I want the game to grow. I can see if it goes elsewhere, everybody else is going to have to up their game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can see the benefits for the sport, but also I love having the family there, the crowds from the UK coming and supporting. In an ideal world, just make the Crucible bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyren Wilson says he&#8217;d take a pay cut if it meant the\u00a0World Championship, which a prize pot of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[22041,1144,140276,96668,10380,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-524782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-judd-trump","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-northern-ireland-open","11":"tag-quarter-finals","12":"tag-snooker","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115429300447497860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524782","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=524782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}