Judd Trump insists that the World Championship should be moved away from the Crucible

Judd Trump desires to be snooker’s champion for change — and he would begin by transferring the World Championship away from Sheffield.

The 2019 world champion says the sport is ‘miles behind’ the place it must be, and he desires to lift snooker’s profile and see the Worlds get pleasure from the sort of raucous environment created at the Masters, held at Alexandra Palace.

‘I just think snooker needs to change as a whole,’ the former world No 1 mentioned. ‘A lot of the tournaments are living in the past, the venues are a bit dated.’

Judd Trump says the World Championship should be moved away from the Crucible

And Trump consists of the Crucible in Sheffield, the place the World Championship has been held yearly since 1977.

‘Nowadays you have to have hospitality. You have it at Wimbledon, in golf or in Formula 1.

‘You just wouldn’t anticipate somebody like David Beckham to come back and sit in the crowd at some other occasion would you? There’s no hospitality at the Crucible and also you’re narrowing it down.’

Stephen Maguire agrees that snooker’s greatest occasion deserves to happen at a bigger venue

Maguire believes that Alexandra Palace is the finest venue to stage snooker matches

Stephen Maguire is one participant who agrees with Trump, and believes that the sport’s greatest occasion deserves a a lot larger venue.

The Crucible holds fewer than 1,000 followers and Scotsman Maguire mentioned, ‘I think Ally Pally has made itself our best venue by some distance. The Masters feels like our biggest event.

‘You could get 3,000 in, the World Championship would sell the tickets. The Crucible only holds 900 to 1,000, so if you could get 3,000 somewhere why not make it happen?’