Ronnie O’Sullivan has taken a controversial pot shot at Lewis Hamilton – claiming sporting greatness must come from a level playing field.
Formula One ace Hamilton, 35, won a seventh world title at the weekend to equal the record of German legend Michael Schumacher.Hamilton‘s stellar achievements have seen him widely hailed as one of Britain’s greatest sportspeople and triggered an immediate campaign to see him receive a knighthood.But reigning and six-time world champion O’Sullivan, 44, admits he is among those who attribute some of Hamilton’s success to the high-performing Mercedes car.And in one jibe O’Sullivan said his own career would not mean as much “if I had been playing with bigger pockets than my opponents”.Hamilton is the red-hot.
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