‘He does things that make you go wow!’: Jamie Carragher says Ronnie O’Sullivan is in his top 3 sporting GOATs

Jamie Carragher says Ronnie O’Sullivan is in his top three list of all-time greatest sportspeople, stating that the snooker player does things that “make you go wow”. O’Sullivan is widely regarded as the best snooker player ever with seven World Championships, seven UK Championship titles and seven titles at The Masters which add up to a record 21 Triple Crown titles. Ad He also has the most ranking titles, with 39, and has been among the sport’s elite for two decades.

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“It’s not just that Ronnie O’Sullivan is the best snooker player of all-time, he can play with both hands. “I know people say some footballers can play with both feet, but playing snooker left-handed and getting a 147 in five minutes – [these] things that just make you go 'wow', nobody else can do that.” Carragher also chose Usain Bolt and Floyd Mayweather as his other two sporting GOATs. The former Liverpool player’s comments come after Marco Fu stated O’Sullivan is in the same rank as Roger Federer, Lionel Messi, Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan.