STEVE DAVIS believes Ronnie O'Sullivan needs to win a record eighth World Championship sooner rather than later.
The six-time world champion knows exactly what it is like to decline as age catches up with you.
Davis, below, ruled the baize in the Eighties and won his last Crucible crown aged 31, before Stephen Hendry took over and dominated for the next decade.
But even the Scottish great, a seven-time winner, was 30 when he last scaled the Sheffield mountain.
The evergreen Rocket, 48, has stretched the barrier of what is possible in the sport with his incredible longevity.
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