This has a really special meaning to me. My dear old Dad was a big Ronnie fan and he absolutely loved this break. He would bore people to death telling them how amazing it was, even if they knew nothing about or even liked snooker! He sadly passed away from Alzheimer's a few years ago. Another love of Dad's was Guinness. So, on the anniversary of his death, every year at 2:20am - the time he passed away, I set my alarm, get out of bed, pour a Guinness and watch this break. Cheers Dad 🍺

What everyone fails to mention in this 147 - is that this was the best hairstyle Ronnie ever had

This should be on repeat in the Louvre. It’s not snooker, it’s art

if anyone will beat this it will be Peter ebdon

He played this like he had somewhere else to be, like the mrs. told him, "you've got 5 more minutes" and he went, "okay, I'll just shoot a 147 real quick and come home".

Blink and you missed it

meanwhile there's me with lifetime maximum break of 1

Ronnie needs a faster referee

4 mins for a century, takes me and my mates 45 mins to finish 1 frame 😂

Len Ganley deserves a shout for this too, quick with respotting the black, didn't cut across Ronnie like so many do these days, respected his rhythm, nice that he was part of one of the games most memorable moments too after his years of service to the game

The crowd is really good. They cheer shots but STFU really quickly as Ronnie gets down for the next.

This will forever be one of THE greatest sporting moments in history.

Anyone that’s played on a full sized snooker table will understand what an absolutely immense sporting achievement that is.

He’s pretty good. He should do this for a living

£147000, earned in 5 minutes and 20 seconds. Let that sink in.

This video should be put on a gold record and sent out to space.

What amazed me most about this break, was not the quickness, but the fact that there was not a single difficult shot in the 36 pots. This was due to Ronnie's phenomenal cue ball control.

I know some of the comments here refer to pool hustlers and so on. The problem with that is pool tables are so much smaller and the pockets are significantly wider. On top of this the championship snooker tables have tighter pockets than normal club tables. What he did here is beyond belief, this is probably the most difficult “perfect” game of any sport to accomplish. He also managed it with blinding speed. Another factor that this particular video does not show is that Ronnie can play left-handed to 90-95% as good as right-handed, and with the same speed. There has never been another snooker player like him, the most century breaks, the most maximums, all done at incredible speed, an absolute genius at work!!!!!

Even if you know nothing about snooker, you can see how beautiful this is. He makes it look like child's play.

When he potted those balls, they entered the pocket so close to dead center that my jaw hit the floor. But in addition to his accuracy is his ability to plan ahead = not just one shot but several. Nobody knows the physics of this game better than Mr. O'Sullivan. I'm gobsmacked at this performance.