an opportunity to drastically change the price structure of the world championships and this is eddie hearn to look at that in terms of opportunities for the talent. there will be aggressive markets and saudi arabia might be one of them where they will make a huge play to bring the flagship event to the kingdom. i'm at a loss in the sense that i love the game. i know the sort of history of the sport, but times change and the sport needs to grow and evolve. so, unless the crucible can find some way of holding more people, then i think it's inevitable that it moves. i'm not one that's going to be pushing for it to move. i love the crucible and i love the atmosphere and there's a lot of history attached, but it might need to move away from the crucible and that's a sad state of affairs. do you think it will stay in the uk, do you think? i hope so. i'm not sure it will. i don't know what's around the corner, but i really hope so because like uk snooker in general has been a massive part of the history of the sport. so, i don't want it to move too far. there we go. you can get all the latest spo

eddie hearn is the chairman of matchroom sport who run the world snooker tour. cannot guarantee the crucible will continue to be the championships' home after it's current deal runs out in 2027. it would have to take an opportunity that would be difficult for us to refuse for the players, notjust for the business, but for the players. if there was an opportunity to drastically change the price structure of the world championships, and this is eddie han speaking, not world snooker speaking, not world snooker speaking, for me, you have to look at that in terms of opportunities for the talent. there will be aggressive markets and saudi arabia might be one of them where they will make a huge play to bring the flag ship into the kingdom. ina sense, in a sense, i love the game, i know the history— in a sense, i love the game, i know the history of— in a sense, i love the game, i know the history of the sport, but times change. _ the history of the sport, but times change, the sport needs to grow and evolve, _ change, the sport needs to grow and evolve, so— change, the

said earning now, eddie hearn said yesterday. 3 or yesterday.4 times more in saudi than i can in small in sheffield. it's a small arena. he criticised the uk arena. he also criticised the uk government not promoting government for not promoting enough encouraging enough enough or not encouraging enough elite sporting events over here. on side of that, you on the flip side of that, you say, this already say, well, this is already a mature nation. mature sporting nation. we already lot of elite already have a lot of elite events already, so why should we push boat to make push the boat out to make snooker as big as any bigger than it already is? it should find the find its own way in the marketplace. problem find its own way in the markecourse, problem find its own way in the markecourse, is problem find its own way in the markecourse, is stephen, roblem find its own way in the markecourse, is stephen, thatem is, of course, is stephen, that it's very find snooker it's very hard to find snooker coverage. you have to coverage. now you have to discov

and i wonder whether they said that eddie hearn, in response to learning of this development becausey they have in golf and as they possibly might do in in tennis, then that blows away the whole thing and maybe eddie hearn was just second guessing what was going to happen further down the line. and maybe preventing the problem before it becomes a bigger problem for them. >> perhaps, maybe. aidan, good to see you. good to see you. thank you very much indeed. still to come. do stay with us. we're going to be looking through the papers with stephanie takyi and andy jones. that's next. welcome back to breakfast. we're going to be going through the papers now with stephanie takyi and andy jones. papers now with stephanie takyi and andy jones . very good and andy jones. very good morning to you both. and, andy, shall we start with the infected blood scandal? it's on the front page of the observer today . page of the observer today. >> yeah. i'm really pleased that this is getting a lot of momentum. this is on the front page. finally, the front page of the sunday times last week, getting do