Hearn believes Crucible event is the pinnacle of British sport
World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn insists hard work has saved the game as he pledged to make every player a millionaire.
Hearn has turned around the sport in the two-and-a-half years he has been at the helm with now almost 30 tournaments on the calendar with the promise of an even busier 2012/13 season. Hearn, speaking at the launch of the Betfred.com World Championship which gets under way in Sheffield on Saturday, April 21, is convinced the recession would soon be consigned to history if everyone bought into his philosophy. He might have echoed David Jason's Del Trotter as he said: "We're going to make everybody millionaires." But Hearn was gushing with pride as he spoke of the huge strides snooker has taken.
"This is the year that snooker went back to work," he said.
"These kids, these boys, these men, are playing better than they've ever played before. In the year that we're trying to get the country back to work, snooker is leading the way.
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