On the Security tab, select Custom level, and then under ActiveX controls and plug-ins, do one the following:Īllow Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls by selecting Enable.Īllow Internet Explorer to Display video and animation on a webpage that doesn't use external media player by selecting Enable.Īllow Internet Explorer to Download signed ActiveX controls by selecting Enable, or Prompt if you want to be notified each time this happens.Īllow Internet Explorer to Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins by selecting Enable, or Prompt if you want to be notified each time this happens.Īllow Internet Explorer to Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting by selecting Enable, or Prompt if you want to be notified each time this happens. In Internet Explorer, select the Tools button, and then select Internet options. Only change advanced ActiveX settings if you're sure about increasing the level of risk to your PC.
Changing some advanced security settings will let you download, install, or run the control, but your PC might be more vulnerable to security threats. Internet Explorer might not be set up to download or run ActiveX controls for security reasons. There should no longer be a check mark next to ActiveX Filtering.Īdjust ActiveX settings in Internet Explorer Point to Safety in the drop-down menu, and then select ActiveX Filtering. O’Sullivan might have snubbed the 10 grand but the sponsors should be writing him a large cheque regardless.Open Internet Explorer and select the Tools button. He is the one man who brings in the big bucks. To get a 147 in snooker requires 15 reds, with 15 blacks, and then all six of the colours. He’s the best player snooker’s seen and certainly the most interesting. There’s a fine line between genius and mad man and Ronnie hops back and forth across it on a regular basis. It needs to know he might have another one of his meltdowns and end up sitting with a tea towel on his head again. That’s why snooker needs O’Sullivan at his bonkers best. It’s all tarnished a game that’s been on the wane. Bans for match fixing, with the good guys like Higgins himself getting done by a newspaper sting a while back. Even in fairly recent years we bubbled when John Higgins wiped away the tears on his way to his first Crucible win.īut the game has been in the grubber of late. The jaws were on the floor when Hendry appeared with his spotty coupon and dodgy mullet to wipe away the game’s old guard. We loved watching White slam in centuries then go to pot in world finals. Part of snooker’s big attraction was the silences, the pauses, the tension. The sport’s struggling and they are trying new formats but the speed snooker stuff on right now is painful to watch. He’s probably right, £10,000 might not be a fair amount given how hard and how rare 147s can be but it’s all snooker can afford right now. Ronnie O'Sullivan (Image: Martin Rickett/PA Wire) It would have been a nice sidenote, not headline news. Maybe he could have donated the dough to charity and had a grumble about how the sum was not a fair reflection for the achievement. Perhaps he should have pocketed the money and then had a pop. At a time when a lot of folk are struggling to keep the heating on it jars when a millionaire scoffs at tidy sums of dosh like they’ve been offered a fiver.
His reasoning for knocking back the 10k was a tad off. Of course it was a bit crass from O’Sullivan. Nowadays most of the world’s top 10 could be sitting in your living room and you’d be wondering if the Mrs had hired waiting staff for a wee party. In the 80s the guys at the top were as famous as the footballers we worshipped.Īlex Higgins, Jimmy White, Dennis Taylor, Stephen Hendry, John Parrott, these guys were household names. A lot of us remember when the game was unmissable. He’s just about the only man worth watching these days in snooker. Ronnie O'Sullivan of England (Image: ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) It needs Ronnie O’Sullivan to be acting like, well, Ronnie O’Sullivan. It’s this kind of stuff that might help the prize pot for maximums go back up again. At time when the sport is quietly being packed off in to the margins the bold Ronnie got it back on the back pages. You couldn’t buy the kind of PR he has given the Welsh Open this week. Well, here’s another word for Ronnie – priceless.
He’s been called the lot and then some by the po-faced brigade getting their knickers in a twist. He turned down the penultimate black and stuck in a 146 instead and stuck two fingers up at the organisers. That was the reward on the line for the maximum but it was an insult to O’Sullivan. He was all set to rattle in a 147 break at the BetVictor Welsh Open but decided it wasn’t worth the bother. Poor Ronnie’s getting it tight this week. RONNIE O’Sullivan might have turned his nose up at 10 grand but his latest controversy just shows he’s still worth his weight in gold to snooker.