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Snooker star’s odd response to creating unfortunate foul as followers say ‘he is field workplace’

Snooker star Matt Selt’s weird response after making a foul led followers to name him “box office”.

Selt was knocked out of the German Masters after a 5-2 defeat to Judd Trump on Wednesday. The 38-year-old was unfortunate to commit a foul within the seventh body whereas attempting to interrupt into the pack.

He unintentionally walloped the pink in whereas trying to break up the reds, leading to a curious response on his half. Replays confirmed Selt with a deadpan expression as he watched his error value him dearly – however he proceeded to offer the pink ball a thumbs up.

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The hilarious gesture lasted a number of seconds because the commentator referred to as it the “most sarcastic ever thumbs up”. And viewers have been left in heaps of laughter as they took to social media to touch upon it.

One X person posted the clip together with the message: “Not sure Selt really meant that thumbs up,” whereas one other tweeted: “Box workplace is Matt Selt.”

A third pointed out: “Matt Selt is funny to watch,” while a fourth joked: “Great mental strength to keep his middle finger down.”

What did you make of his reaction? Let us know in the feedback part.



Matt Selt gave the ball a bizarre thumbs up
Matt Selt gave the ball a weird thumbs up

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But others disagreed, tweeting: “Can’t help thinking Selt is his own worst enemy. He doesn’t seem to have the temperament to get over mishaps,” and: “He’s just an attention seeker.”

Selt has beforehand been open about his struggles with trichotillomania, a compulsion which leads somebody to tug their very own hair out. In Selt’s case, that entails his eyebrows and eyelashes.

He defined to the BBC final 12 months: “I didn’t know what it was, for the first six, seven, eight, nine years. I don’t have any eyelashes on top of my eyes, because I just pick them out.

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“I do not know I’m doing it. Then, I believe, about 2008 or so, I began choosing my eyebrows out. I used to pencil my eyebrows in each single day just about for the final 10 or 15 years.

“But it got to a point about only about eight weeks ago that I thought ‘I just can’t be bothered any more’ so I don’t now.

“I mentioned to a few my buddies, ‘oh, have you ever seen my eyebrows? I have not pencilled them in’ and so they mentioned ‘no, you do not look any completely different’. I believed ‘Wow!’ You suppose you simply look so completely different, however individuals barely discover it.”