O'Brien sickens Parrott to book Crucible trip

An emotional John Parrott was “sickened” by his 10-8 defeat at the hands of Irishman Fergal O’Brien in the final qualifying round of the Embassy World Championship tonight.

The result brought the curtain down on a sequence of 21 successive appearances for Parrott at the Crucible and left the 1991 world champion shell-shocked.