Snooker star unleashes Crucible rant as he declares iconic World Championship venue STINKS

Hossein Vafaei has slammed the Crucible declaring that the iconic snooker venue STINKS and needs to be painted.

The Iranian was knocked out of the World Championship Judd Trump with a 10-5 defeat - but the Iranian didn't appear too bothered as he declared he would rather not ever play at the venue again. The Crucible has staged snooker’s biggest event since way back in 1977 - but world No.19 Vafaei was less than impressed.

Speaking after the exit, he said: “History is very important but when nobody invests any money in this historical venue, let’s forget the history – you want to go somewhere really nice as a player. You walk everywhere around the Crucible and it smells really bad. As a player I’m honest, it’s just really bad. Everything’s so bad. You go to other venues in other countries and you see how nice they treat you. How nice everything is. Everything is shiny.

“But here it’s completely different. If you ask me do I want to come back here again, I tell you no way. The practice room, do you see anything special? I feel like I’m practicing in a garage. That’s not good.”

A World Snooker Tour statement read: “The Crucible is a historic venue and there are limitations given the size of the backstage areas. We work with the Crucible to make it as welcoming as possible for players.”

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