last year we saw anthonyjoshua's boxing fight with andy ruinunior in diriyah, 2019 had the first saudial golf tournament too and this week — the spanish super cup is taking place injeddah — much to the chagrin in many in spain. snooker will venture to the kingdom in october for the first time as part of a new ten year deal with the world snooker tour. their chairman barry hearn has been speaking to the bbc about the controversial decision and his plans for the sport over the next decade it isa it is a massive statement because it shows that getting involved in the political overtones that we are all aware of the situation there but sport knows no boundaries and we are there to spread the gospel of sport and this gospel of snooker. we are not disinterested the major two and half million pound plasma event, we are there to create an infrastructure of snooker fire academies, via player visits and universities, schools, trying to country. we want to be more involved in spore generally —— sport. there was some on the outside, we use women refreeze in the city government says 0k. women refre