Nobody worked as hard to make snooker a popular sport as I did.
The people in China love their snooker. We get a fantastic reception when we go over there.
Snooker has taken such a step down I am not sure it will recover unless five Ronnie O'Sullivans come along at the same time.
I don't feel people are that interested in snooker any more and the only thing that will get snooker back into the limelight is more controversy.
Northern Ireland as a whole is a great snooker country because of Alex Higgins and Dennis Taylor and now of course there is Mark Allen. It's a hotbed of snooker and a place where our sport is always well supported.
You are never going to get snooker on to the front pages because there is not enough money in the game here.
Snooker's never going to be that. It's never going to be a worldwide game like tennis and golf. It's never going to happen.
Snooker's only popular in China now. Well China's OK to go to once or twice a year but to go and play six or seven tournaments there is too much.
Snooker's got bigger over the last ten years, but obviously it's still on a really small scale.
I would love to bring it up-to-date and get some more people interested in snooker.
