Ding Junhui
This year's Masters Championship, Ding Junhui took the initiative to admit his foul without the referee noticing and lost a game at the critical moment of the score draw, but he won the praise of fans all over the world with his sports spirit.
talks about the sports spirit of various events. Former world champion Sean Murphy ignores the face of football fans and directly compares snooker with football, believing that football is far less sports spirit than snooker sports. Hector Nance, a well-known snooker journalist, also believes.
Nans has 16 years of experience in snooker . In addition, his professional fields also cover tennis and football. In his opinion, compared with snooker sports, most sports events cannot gain the upper hand in the sports spirit level.
"As a sports reporter, my reports are not only limited to the table and court, but also to various environments." Nance talked about his profession, "We need to compare, such as sports spirit, which is the most powerful weapon. Generally speaking, snooker is completely comparable to other sports in terms of etiquette and fairness. There are countless examples in decades of development that prove this."
Stephen Hendry
"I can immediately think of two examples, Stephen Hendry and Furgail O'Brien. Hendry's most important examples. The well-known referee questioned was in the 1994 World Championships final. At that time, Jimmy White led 16-15 and refused to accept the privilege of free ball . You must know that this is the most important game and the final decision is the moment when the final decides the winner. He might have lost one more game. "
" But he did not, and he also won the final game 18-17 with his real strength, and truly ranked as the world champion again. "
As for O'Brien's example, White is still the beneficiary, and this happened not long ago. Nance continued: "In the final game of the International Championship qualifying round, O'Brien voluntarily admitted a foul, which allowed White to seize the opportunity and finally won the game 6-5."
O'Brien
"Snooker is a 'personal battle', so there are few scenarios similar to 'pulling, tweaking'. Even outside the existing discipline rules, players will restrain themselves to varying degrees. As long as they are within the hitting range that the opponent aims at, anyone will make sure that they will not interfere with the opponent."
talks about football and tennis, Nance said that these sports are also gradually changing. "Football and tennis have something that I hate, and they are gradually improving, such as respect for referees and officials, deceiving referees, intentional waste of time, dominance of situation, "counterattack" and need to go to the toilet, etc. Some of the problems also exist, but snooker requires much more than that," he said.
Players' adherence to moral code does not mean that the referee's role is weakened. To be referee in a top snooker event, you need extremely high concentration, because a game often lasts for several hours. Paul Collier is one of the most respected referees on the tour, and has twice ruled the World Championship finals. Now he is also a member of the event director team.
Paul Collier
"When players can actively point out their foul, this is a good thing." Collier said that he believes in the players, "I think no one in the game will continue to hit the ball even though he knows that his foul is not discovered. Players like to actively inform them because it shows that they have credibility, but they still hope that our referee can give a judgment as soon as possible."
"There are many cases where players do not realize they are not aware of themselves."
" If you have a foul, you need to intervene. But one advantage is that players never question the referee's penalty. They all know that no snooker in history enjoys blowing the whistle. This is just our job. "
" Some of the penalty is indeed difficult to do, but everyone will understand us in the end. I have been a referee for 28 seasons so far, and all I need to do is stare at the ball. If I make any mistakes, I will be discussed for a month and I will be mentioned in daily conversations."
