Beijing time on January 6 news, snooker world champion Murphy said in an interview: because after losing to a Chinese teenager, he had made a statement that "the opponent is not worthy of participating in the amateur competition", thinking that the remarks were not bad and had apologized, but he was still threatened with death on the Internet!
At last year's British Championship, Murphy lost to the unknown Chinese teenager Scarlett, and after the game, Murphy publicly said: "Amateur players like Scarlett are not worthy of participating!" I don't understand why an amateur player can compete, he shouldn't be on the professional stage! ”
Murphy said: "There are a lot of people swearing at me on social media! But I don't think my remarks are so bad! After losing to Scarlett, I really shouldn't have said such a thing, and I have already apologized to him! If I had gone back in time, I wouldn't have said those words. ”
Murphy added: "For so many years, on and off the snooker field, I've been doing a great job! No one is a sage, and I still need to study hard. ”
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First, it is clear that Murphy's inappropriate remarks after losing to the Chinese youngster at that time showed a very depressed mood, of course, more reflecting a "can't afford to lose" mentality.
Just think: even if the opponent is an amateur player, since you can't beat others, you can only show that you haven't done a good job, but the opponent "shouldn't play professional games", how can there be such a reason in the world? Isn't that logic?
Second, Murphy said that "his remarks are not bad" – a debatable statement.
To call one's opponent "unworthy of playing professional games" is obviously a great disrespect for others, and for this billiards, which the British call "gentleman's sport", in a way, of course, it is the greatest contempt for the opponent, obviously, the feeling of "not bad" should not be defined by Murphy himself, but by the slandered to bear and identify.
Third, as a snooker sport that has been dominated by the British, the star-studded British and surrounding players, in fact, there is a certain "sense of snooker superiority", and Chinese players have begun to rise in the sport of snooker, which seems to make these people feel a little unhappy, right?
Why wouldn't Murphy say such disrespectful things to Britain's young, unknown players? It can be seen that although Murphy said that his inappropriate remarks were not bad, his mentality and thinking of looking down on Chinese players in his bones seemed to be difficult to hide, right?
Third, Murphy has apologized, and the public has also criticized his inappropriate remarks, for example, the famous O'Sullivan also criticized Murphy: "Because of the loss, it is not appropriate to blame the younger generation for no reason!" If you can't accept it, it's best to find another factory to work! I feel like an amateur right now and you have to keep that mentality going because it's going to be better."
Therefore, people do not have to "death threats" because of this, "people are not sages, no one can be blamed", we still believe that Murphy's apology is sincere, I hope he can change his "British snooker natural superiority" from the bones of the wrong concept.