How can Sheffield hang on to World Snooker?

We asked fans what the city can do to hang on to the tournament amid a furore over its future.

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00:00Brilliant outside, yep. It's historic. We've got this garden centre. Personally, I wouldn't

00:17challenge anything. The accommodation's good for the fans. We'll keep it as is. Mainly

00:32because money and money talks. I think within two years it'll be gone, after the 2027 deadline

00:37it'll be gone. Whether it'll go to another city and then another city after that, Beijing,

00:43maybe Saudi or wherever. I can't see them keeping it, to be honest with you.

00:48Is there anything that the council could be doing, do you think?

00:52Well, unless they do what Barry Owen wants them to do, build a 3,000-seater stadium,

00:57I can't see that happening. We're not going to redevelop the Crucible because it's a theatre

01:00in its own right. So essentially, I think it'll go. I don't want it to go because I come here

01:05every year for God knows how many years, but it'll go. It's the reality of it. And I think

01:11when Barry Hearn's term comes around, and Eddie Taxaver, who seems to love the Saudis,

01:17he'll be out there as well.

01:27Barry Hearn was writing what he was saying, that you can be dewey-eyed about,

01:34it's been here since 1977, we've got to keep it here. It means a lot to a lot of people,

01:39but at the end of the day, it's business, and money is business, and that's what will

01:47entice people elsewhere. Or, conversely, I suppose, is what restricts Sheffield

01:53to take it elsewhere. If they can't or don't want to come up with the

01:58funds to do what Barry Hearn wants, then he's going to take it elsewhere, sadly.