““I’ve never been told what to do. It’s not like I play for a football club and you’ve got to be there at 10am and if you’re not, you’re fined. If I want to take a year off, six months off, I can do that. It’s having that flexibility is important to me,” O’Sullivan said on Eurosport’s coverage of the English Open, where the 45-year-old remains in the hunt for a first title of the season.”