When Referees Completely Ruined Snooker Matches!

From referee's silly mistakes

to unfair warnings,

>> these are the moments when referees

interrupted or ruined snooker matches.

Starting with referee Desislava

Bojalova's awkward, time-consuming

attempts to place the pink ball in its

proper position.

>> An angle on the black.

He's asking the cameraman now to move

over to cover the blue pixel.

>> Is that allowed?

>> It's a frustration for the players.

Obviously, there's a a fair bit of

screenage around the table now.

>> Big big moment.

>> He's asking the cameraman to move over.

There's the pixel.

>> 98 when that respotted black uh the

famous respotted black in the final with

Steven Hendrik.

>> Wouldn't matter what year it was, you'd

still be ribbing each other about.

>> Which one was it?

>> This is got into a little bit of a

>> this

No

pro.

>> It's a very delicate operation this to

get that pink into the correct spot. I

mean, this is the most mind if I take

off my glove and just drop it in.

>> She's going to take the glove off

because

>> she said, "Do you mind if I take the

glove off and just drop it in?" was very

difficult because with the glove that

pink could slip out of her fingers. So,

I've never seen an awkward

position to have to try and get the

ball.

We might have to bring a crane in.

>> That is so difficult.

Well done, D. That was very difficult.

>> Whatever you do, don't sneeze now.

I think she might get a round of

applause because this was a very awkward

spot.

>> Seven.

>> Why not?

>> Mike says, "Could you clean the thing?"

Next, we have a referee making silly

mistakes in the F and White 2000 Grand

Prix game.

>> Well, I find that amazing really. He's

hit the brown. He called it. Obviously,

the foul shots been given, but

why not the miss? Because it is a miss

if he hits the brown.

Well, I think Marco thinks he called a

miss, and he never called a miss.

What's the rule?

>> Okay, you'll do.

>> Sorry.

>> Yeah.

>> No, I'm not guessing. Jimmy,

>> got to be around.

>> Caught the round on the way through.

>> Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Thank you.

>> You forgot to call.

>> Yeah, I forgot to call it.

>> You're allowed to. You know, we all make

mistakes.

>> Yeah.

Well, I think this is very decent of

Jimmy White to be perfectly honest with

you. The referee has made a mistake. The

referee didn't call the miss.

Uh and when Marco Fu assumed he'd called

a miss and asked uh the ball to be

replaced. Uh the referee said, "Well, I

didn't call the miss." And it was only

Jimmy's intervention that that ball's

been replaced.

>> This wasn't the only mistake in this

game. In fact, the referee moved the

black ruining Jimmy White's free ball

moment.

The odds on favorite six to four on to

win this match. His opponent 11 to 10.

But I reckon you could have had a lot

better odds about this first frame

between these two going as long as this

because they both get on with the game.

And

that's got to be a miss.

>> Foul seven and a miss. Jimmy

>> free ball.

>> Free ball.

Now, what does Jimmy do? Well, hold on.

The referee is out of order here because

he's Jimmy's looking up at us and is

laughing because the referee shouldn't

have moved the black. Jimmy has a choice

of playing a free ball or whatever.

>> It's all good nature.

I think he's automatically decided it

was

>> relax.

I think the black was nearer the cushion

and further up myself, but that's right.

where Marco pointed somewhere there.

>> Well, let's have a look where that black

should be because it is important that

the black Well, there you go. You see it

was almost on on the side cushion and

and Jimmy's got the referee there out of

bit of a spot.

And Jimmy keeps saying the referee just

calm down here. Just relax. Looks like

the referee's just as uptight as the

players at the moment. Now we have

Michaela Tabs one silly mistake that

interrupted the whole game. She picked

the white ball instead of the green one.

>> Pop the red pieces on just a bit too

high. Can you turn them down, please?

>> And then into the bunch.

>> Oh, she's picked the white up. That's

unbelievable.

Oh, she can't. What a shame. She was

telling someone to turn his

You very rarely see that. Now, have a

look at this. She's telling someone to

turn the earpiece down. You could hear

it. So, she's just told the crowd and

she's come around to pick the green out

of the pocket and pick the wines up.

>> Oh,

but with the monitor that they have,

they'll be able to get it back. the

handle.

>> H Well, there's a first for everything.

She makes very few mistakes. Arian

Williams there. We'll just have a look

at the monitor and

>> I'll put the green back.

>> Well, yeah, get the green back on the

spot first and then we'll uh

Oh, that's terrific.

It just shows you how much the referees

have to concentrate as well. I mean,

that's where it was. Now, let's see

where

>> you not got it.

>> Now, we've got it in the commentary box,

but uh

>> Arian should be able to get it.

>> No, Dennis.

>> Give me a hand.

>> M's just asked me to give her a hand.

Just shows it. Rodri.

>> That's where it was.

>> That way.

They don't give a man.

>> Yeah. Is that okay?

>> Yeah.

>> Now we have Jimmy White getting a

warning from the referee when he wasn't

mistaken.

>> Oh, Jimmy White special. What a shot

that was. His

matches used to be laced with pots like

that back in the day.

>> Terrific shot.

Kiss is okay.

He's on the brown and blue ball.

>> Brown ball.

Funny.

>> Jimmy, I'm going to give you a warning

>> for sticking your finger up. You did.

I'm giving you a warning.

>> If you do anything for further, it will

be the frame to your opponent.

>> Well, that's a bit unfortunate. Jimmy

White obviously didn't see the funny

side of Ben Williams nominating

the wrong ball.

>> Jimmy White won.

>> Yeah, referee made a mistake calling the

blue, but

it's easy, don't I mean,

don't think he meant anything by it.

>> Ronnie and Allan believed that the

referee did wrong with Jimmy White. It

is okay.

>> It's unfortunate really um to see that.

Um Jimmy's going to get a warning. He's

got a warning. What do you make of that?

the pair of view. I mean, you've played

in the game. You've been dealing with

referees all your lives. Allan first.

>> I can understand Jimmy. Look, it it's a

serious business at the easiest of times

out there. And Jimmy's super serious

about today about his big match. So,

he's he's fully tuned in. You really

don't want You can have moments of

hilarity out there when the the occasion

suits, but Jimmy's got a brown that gets

him down and amongst the Reds. He

doesn't want any of that. You want I'll

be honest, the referee is apologies,

Jimmy. Brown ball. Thank you. And we

carry on and then it it doesn't become

anything. But Jimmy's so head up about

things the slightest little thing can

knock out his

>> Yeah, definitely. Yeah.

>> So, no surprise, Ronnie. Jimmy didn't

see the funny side there.

>> Yeah, I can see why Jimmy's not seen the

funny side of that. You know, he's he's

having a hard time out there. He's not

playing well. He's sort of Jimmy has

walked around here, so it might look

like he's looking at the blue and the

referee's jumped the gun and there's no

reason to call a color. I mean, Jimmy

White's, you know, whatever ball he's

going to hit, it's the one he's

intending to hit. And then the referee

starts laughing, you know, it's sort of

and then and then Jimmy goes like that

with his hand and Jimmy's done nothing

with his hand other than like, you know,

what's going on. You know what I mean? I

don't need this. And then he's warned

him. You just think, come on. You know,

it's just it's just uncalled for really.

>> Yeah. going back. Look, I'm not going to

hurt back to days of your and days of

old, but the the the John Williams and

the John Streets back in the day, 20, 30

years ago, they would actually call you

sir when it was a nice way. They'd say,

"Sorry, sir. Thank you, sir." And get on

with the, you know, so maybe, you know,

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snooker content. Next, we have referee

Desislava Bojilova's one clumsy movement

that interrupted the whole game.

Oh,

did you know what?

She's going to bring up the screen.

Sorry.

It was more

>> not quite. But no, it's

>> Would you move it like really quick?

Yeah.

>> Move it again.

Move it again quick.

Good stuff.

>> It's more going towards a bag coming

out.

>> Don't care what that says, but

>> okay. Okay. Yes. Okay.

>> Sorry guys.

What about like that?

>> Yeah.

>> Okay.

>> Yeah.

>> Thank you.

Next, we have a referee giving an unfair

warning to Joe Yoong, ruining the game

for him.

Joe Long plays a really poor positional

shot here. He took um it was a shot

before. It was a black before that red

that got him in that situation, but that

was a um and the referee actually um

tells him to hurry up because he play

took over two minutes. I don't think

that's fair because he's not a slow

player. If he was one of the slow

players on the tour who's doing it every

other shot, then I think he was entire

to tell him. But uh it's a very

difficult shot. He he should be 3-1 up

already by now and he's not. So that's

why he took so long on the shot.

>> Yeah, I mean he's he's a fast player and

sometimes you got to look at the table

and if it was an obvious shot on you'd

go yeah 2 minutes is too long but you

know there wasn't an obvious shot on you

know it was you know so he he took a bit

of time but you know if that's going to

be the new rule that after two minutes

then you know that should apply to

everyone. Maybe is he just doing that

because J's not a high ranked player?

Would he have done the same to Higgins,

Selby, Robertson, myself? Maybe not. Who

knows? But if you're going to if you're

going to if you're going to start doing

that, then you have to do it all the

time. You know,

>> it's not actually a rule I know of. If

it's a new rule, we don't know. But two

minutes, it's a hard thing because it's

a bit of a guessing game really. I mean,

some referees will tell Ronnie to speed

up. But um where is it? You know, where

do we get to the stage where actually

hold on, this is ridiculous. You're

taking way too long. We saw with Mark

Selby in that monster shop, six and a

half minutes.

>> We say Neil Robinson is a fast player.

We agree with that, right? He's a fast,

fluent player. in that final with Jud

Trump, you know, he was taking sometimes

two or three minutes on shot because,

you know, pressure can do that to you

sometimes. You know, you you your

thought pattern goes. Mark Selby

famously took six and a half minutes,

but you know, this guy is I'm not going

to go referee at all, but you know, this

guy's in a difficult situation. He

should be 3-1 up. He's playing a bad

positional shot and he just took a

little bit of time. He's eventually

going to play the shot. It's a oneoff.

He's not a slow player.

>> Now we have a referee getting corrected

by Shawn Murphy.

Well, he's taken that on.

It's not too bad.

Sean might just play the red on the top

cushion and leave the white there.

Could play a way down the table.

Well, he's having a look at this one

above the black.

>> Brilliant. I mean, is that two one?

>> Just to make sure

>> the thing is

>> Oh, yeah. He's just he's just telling

the one went in the middle.

>> Alex Kazan, the referee didn't spot that

one.

What do you mean? He didn't believe me.

The thing is though, we've noticed with

Sha, he's been very attacking this week,

David, hasn't he? And he's gone for his

shots and they're going in.

>> Yes, it's how he played last year and

had a lot of success and he's not been

having much success this year. So, I

think he's made his mind up right from

the start of this tournament, I'm going

to have a go. And of course, having

played well first couple of rounds, no

reason not to carry on like that here in

the quarterfinals.

It's been a winning formula so far. And

if it's not broken, don't fix it.

>> Five.

>> That's just finished a little bit in

between. The one red that you want on

the right hand side, he's finished

awkward.

>> Six.

It's

>> five plus one.

That's two chances he had. He won't get

a third. Three strikes and you're out.

It's under pressure here to call seven,

isn't he? This red goes in

>> seven.

>> How did you know that was coming?

Yeah, he's back on track now.

>> Also shows how relaxed Murphy is. He can

start making jokes.

>> Absolutely.

13.

>> Now we have Michaela Tab making a

mistake during a ball placement.

>> See

options there. If he pulls up a bit

short, he's got a red to the left

corner. If he goes too far, he's got one

to the right.

>> I was going to say Michaela was putting

on the blue spot.

And funny enough, if she had have put on

the blue spot and this is where the

rules changed, hasn't it? And Mar have

played, it wouldn't have been a foul.

Years ago, it used to be, didn't it?

>> That's right. Yeah. Very rarely did we

ever make a mistake. Just a little lapse

in concentrate.

>> Next, we have Ronnie O. Sullivan having

a heated argument with the referee. He

even asked him to get his eyes tested.

>> He does miss. There's his long put

success. He's only down to 52%.

>> Mark be at 70%.

>> Well, that's the radio play to hit. Is

he going to play to land on it or catch

it thin and get back up the table, but

it's it's a tough one to catch it thin

or well judged.

It's a tricky little shot he's

attempting there because it's so easy to

push that. Mark has left them so close

together that you've got to play away

from it. Uh otherwise you could finish

up playing a push shot.

Yeah, push shot is where the tip,

>> the object ball and the Q ball are all

together at the same time.

>> He doesn't want to leave this touching.

>> I think it is a touching ball and Ronnie

is just coming out to question it.

I know the referee's wearing glasses,

but uh he says it's not.

Well, how often would you see that?

>> I think you'll have to go to spec savers

that referee Dennis.

There's no way.

>> Well, the thing is sometimes it can rock

back a little bit. Um there

>> is still convinced it's not touching,

but it's the referee's choice. If the

referee says it's touching, then Mark's

got to play it. The referee is really

getting in pressure, regretting being in

this situation with the rocket. So,

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>> No, it hasn't. I checked it before I

walked back.

>> Well, I'm sorry.

>> Ronnie, just Yeah, just settle down.

Just don't get yourself upset.

If the referee says it's touching just

uh well that looks touching is he play

from touching ball.

>> Well sometimes as you said Dennis the

ball can sometimes rock back and it is

made a difference

cuz the fact that

fact that those balls are touching

it certainly does make a difference

because Mareli can just play away and

put Ronnie in a bit of trouble here but

he is very annoyed Ronnie. It's not

something he wants to get too upset

with.

>> Now, I hope it doesn't upset him too

much, Dennis, because

>> well, he's just said to the referee, he

needs to get his eyes tested and

from our camera shot and we were in very

close. It looked touching. Maybe when

Ronnie first glanced at it, there might

have been a slight gap and you know they

can move but the referee can only have a

look and if he sees that they're

touching, he's got to declare a touching

ball and that looks as if it's touching.

Meanwhile, Ronny's played a very good

safety shot and Leo Scolion from Glasco,

former policeman.

It's not going to reach this time.