The world champion of snooker angrily screamed: everyone should be banned for life Shortening the ban period is too weak
Beijing time on June 9, 2023, according to the media "The Sportsman" reported, snooker world champion Sean Murphy publicly spoke out about the suspension of 10 Chinese players, he thanked the relevant departments for their efforts in the past period of time to make the case come to light, but Sean Murphy was dissatisfied with the final penalty result, he was angry and disappointed, and reiterated his previous view: everyone involved should be banned for life.
In fact, when this first happened, Sean Murphy expressed his view that he did not want to see these players on the tour again, because the audience paid to watch them play, the players should treat the audience with the utmost integrity, if they play match-fixing, there should be no place, respect themselves and respect every spectator. Today, Sean Murphy still expresses the same opinion, just two players are suspended for life, everyone should be banned for life.
Sean Murphy doesn't want to emphasize that some people are coerced because the end result is the same, and they should not be forgiven if they knowingly play match-fixing. Shaun Murphy, although he did not name names, he alluded to Zhao Xintong, the original statement was that the two-and-a-half-year ban was shortened to 18 months, which is too weak and too tolerant, and some players should be thankful that if I could decide this, then we would not see these players on tour again.
In Sean Murphy's opinion, the handling of this matter should be simpler, no matter what form they participate in match-fixing, they should not have a place in the sport, never will. But the final result showed that some people would soon return to the game, which was really infuriating and disappointing. Sean Murphy also said that it is indeed strange that the police did not intervene in this matter, just like when Stephen Lee was banned for 12 years, and the police did not seem to be interested in intervening.
In response to Shaun Murphy's views, in fact, many professional players have expressed support before, such as David Gilbert, who has said that he does not want to see those tainted players again, does not want to shake their hands, does not want to play with them. However, the official handling of this matter must follow the rules, the specific situation must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, and in the official documents, it is also specifically mentioned that individual young players could not return to China in those years and had a tight life, which was also a reason for their detour.
But in any case, mistakes must be paid, after all, there are still individual players who have been induced or threatened, but they refuse to play match-fixing. Simply put, no matter what objective reasons there are, it should not be an excuse to play match-fixing, which is why the coerced players have also suffered heavy penalties, because the initiative is in the hands of the players themselves, and refusal can avoid all this!