Mark Williams performs sensible joke on referee however loses seven factors instantly
Mark Williams paid a seven-point penalty for his sensible joke on snooker referee Olivier Marteel.
Williams, 48, was competing towards Hossein Vafaei within the World Grand Prix on the Morningside Arena. In the fifth body, Marteel was changing the balls when the Welshman picked up the white ball and put it in his pocket.
When the official had completed, a baffled expression came visiting his face when he realised the cue ball was not the place it was purported to be. After recognizing the mischievous grin on Williams’ face, Marteel had the mom of all sense of humour failures.
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When the World No.8 revealed the ball from his pocket, a lower than amused Marteel mentioned: “You know that’s a penalty seven. It’s a penalty seven points to Hossein. You touched the ball during a consultation period, it’s in the rules.”
Williams rolled his eyes after which regarded to the gang in astonishment, who then proceeded to search out the state of affairs much more amusing than it already was. Fortunately for the Welshman, it didn’t cease him from reaching the following spherical.
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He went on to beat the Iranian 4-1 to ebook himself a conflict towards Chinese ace Yupeng Cao. Nevertheless, his harsh punishment was on the forefront of his thoughts on the finish of the match.
“World Snooker say ‘have a bit of fun, try and show your character’ and stuff like that,” Williams mentioned after the match.
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“You do something like that, just to have a bit of fun, because it took him a while to get back, so I just picked it up and put it in my pocket, and I got fouled seven for it!
“What do they need? They need you to specific your self and have a little bit of enjoyable. When you do it, you get penalty factors, so I will not be doing that once more!”
