@John Thomas I wonder who plugged a snooker cue so far up your bottom that it made your words so salty and full of chagrin; did the chalk not do the trick? Why have you come to observe your antithesis to entertainment here? Are you a masochist?
I agree. It's cos they are working-class people who spend time in regular clubs like normal folk. They aren't a bunch of petulant cheats going him to their mansions to get well away from the fans they despise, like footballers. Footie players are just mercenaries out for themselves. I miss the good old days when players played for their hometown clubs and their native countries!
That one where Michaela says "Ah, ooh - sorry" when Ding clipped the pink - always cracks me up! The fact that Ding doesn't react too, just looks so disappointed with his shot... :-D
Yeah it could easily have been a very uncomfortable couple of minutes for the Ref. if Jimmy had decided to take it any other way than how he did - everybody has a bad day sometimes and Jimmy was all class to acknowledge that.
Jimmy White was my favourite player when I was watching Snooker with my dad. I'd never seen the clip with Fu at the end but do love the sportsmanship there and his good nature hopefully helped the ref for the rest of the game.
Michaela was going to say "Fu*ck" not "Foul" and stopped herself half way through as she knew it was a miss and didnt want to put the balls back in their place (and who can blame her)
The best one though was the time (I think during a World Championship) when the ref put all the balls in his briefcase at the end of a match, then picked it up without fastening it.....
Yeah it's adherence to "tradition" for no other reason than being stubborn over tradition. It's done it in so many sports. Referees/officials will spend several minutes in various games trying to get the "call right" via replays, discussion, and other sorts of guess work, often still don't get it right leading to all sorts of errors. The technology exists that can easily and precisely tell you in milliseconds whether a ball crossed a goal/boundary line, what position it was in, what position it's currently in, whether it went over the plate, and etc. This isn't even expensive or complicated technology, in nearly every case it could be done with off the shelf hardware and software.
I mean it isn't a bad idea to test some kind of projector from above that projects an image of the table from above, that would help the referee immensely, he'll know exactly where to place the balls, and double check with the other referee for a perfect table.
Yes, the same system is used for assembly of parts (for example a car). The parts are colour coded and an image is projected onto the workspace, with the worker just having to put the blue piece on the blue projection, the red on the red projection. It makes fitting together a complicated system as easy as a child's colouring book, even someone with no training on the part can assemble it quickly without error the first try.
I always remember one with Desislava (not sure that’s spelt correctly), where Judd Trump was about to take a shot n a wasp is on his back and she shouts ‘WITWITWITWITWAIT!’
With modern day technology, there has to be laser pin-pointing from an overhead view, with referees given a tablet to view instead of having to refer to a monitor. Balls all contain a chip embedded deep within ball that doesn't affect anything, so referees can see within a hundredth of a millimetre where balls are meant to go & tablet/software highlights balls as 'Green' (in correct spot) or 'red' (needs adjusted) - then when all balls are marked as green - it's good to go.
I don't think the chips would be needed; as long as the camera(s) are placed correctly they can pin-point the balls anyway as long as the ref steps back after every adjustment.
If i had a dollar for everytime Mark Williams stole the cue ball in a match with Mark Selby I'd have 2 dollars, which is not a lot but its weird it happened twice
You can tell Mark is actually annoyed but still wants a laugh. If that was Ebdon/O'Sullivan it would be pouts and miserable faces, but Mark tries to cheer himself up with Selby wasting 5 mins by stealing the white :D
The thumbnail of this video looks funny, because just last night a protester jumped onto the table at the crucible and threw orange powder everywhere. The thumbnail is a crazy prediction of the future!
The refs have some funny moments len ganley was the best,i remember a snooker show from the 70s called pro celebrity snooker it was doubles with a pro partnering a celebrity,anyway the comedian kenny williams was trying to take the mickey out of len,and as quick as you like len turned to kenny and said kenny its times like this i wish i was a dog and you were a tree priceless r.i.p len ganley
I think it would be funny if just for a joke one referee had a red card hidden in his or her pocket.and if a player did something like what's been shown in the video. The ref pulled out the red card and showed it to the player ..
11:15 "we all make mistakes" and yet called a different referee (Ben Williams) a 'dimlo' (stupid person) for calling out the wrong nominated ball, then got his knickers in a twist.
