Murphy's inappropriate remarks led to "threatening letters": they didn't like to be labeled as losers and sour grapes, they made a big fuss. Murphy talks about inappropriate remarks: he has been threatened with death, scolded in the car, and does not want to tarnish his entire career because of it.
The incident was also caused by the British Championship held at Alexander Palace at the end of November last year, when the world's 6th stable gentleman Murphy was dragged into the decider by Chinese youngster Si Jiahui 6-5 in the first round of qualifying for the British Championship, but finally the previous achievements were tragically killed by Chinese youngster Scarlett Si Jiahui 6-5 and missed the round of 64.
The first round was upset by amateur players, and the other party was a substitute to obtain a precious British Championship qualification, based on this, which made Murphy indignant after the loss, and would point out that the other party should not occupy the position of professional player, if a professional player withdraws, the professional player's opponent should directly advance instead of playing a meaningless game with another amateur player.
In fact, looking back at the whole game, Scarlett did perform better than Murphy, he definitely deserved to win, and the reason why Murphy lost was related to the fact that he had been plagued by a shoulder injury at the time, and had nothing to do with who the opponent was. Murphy's near-extreme personal remarks caused a huge reaction at the time. Outside fans point the contradiction to him, thinking that he is a person who can't afford to lose and can't accept reality, and who can't eat grapes and says grapes are sour.
According to Murphy to Eurosport, he had encountered online violence at this time, received "death threats" and threatening letters, and he had also been scolded by the truck driver next to him on the highway where the traffic was blocked. Obviously, in Murphy's view, his casual words have attracted such a big reaction, even exceeding the heat of hosting the British Championship itself. To Murphy's surprise, everyone was interested in who qualified for the tour, not in the tournament itself. The matter should not be "overkill", and someone even issued a "death threat" to him.
As the former president of the Snooker Professionals' Union, he still insisted that his views were not wrong, but he also said that he said the timing of these words was not right, and he also blamed himself for not "realizing" after losing. As the incident fermented, he also sincerely apologized to Scarlett and analyzed the causes and consequences of the incident very thoroughly.
Murphy said that the match (the victory) meant a lot to Scarlett and that he should not use these remarks to cover up the light of his victory. I really wanted to take those words back, but I always regarded them as "jokes".
Scarlett had never beaten a TOP16 player before, which made Murphy feel that he was not very honorable to lose to an amateur player, and he did not want to be labeled by others as "a bad loser and could not eat grapes and say grape sour (sour grapes)"; at the same time, Murphy claimed to be one of the few players in snooker who still generously congratulated his opponents after losing.
According to the latest news, Harger, a veteran reporter of the famous "Subway Newspaper", said that Murphy has always been one of the best players to do this gentlemanly behavior of losing after the game, and he does not want to deny his entire perfect career because of this (small episode). (Code words are very annoying, please click to pay attention to moisturizer AB)