by SnookerEd25 » 30 Aug 2021 Read
THE BALLAD OF PETER LINES :
Oh, Peter Lines
They’ll be handing out fines
Because you spoke your mind
You should have left it all behind…
On the table where you ply your trade
Once match is lost, just let if fade
Come back to fight another day
Or practice hard upon your play
Take a leaf out of your son’s book
He knows his way round this game, snook
Sinks balls, makes plants, shakes hands and goes
Never makes trouble for other pro’s
So what have you learned from this, old Pete?
To keep it buttoned, when you do meet
the gent who best you on the baize;
come back and play, on other days…
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by Prop » 30 Aug 2021 Read
Strange. There are always two sides to every story. It’d be interesting to hear what Lines says about it.
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by Juddernaut88 » 30 Aug 2021 Read
SnookerEd25 wrote:THE BALLAD OF PETER LINES :
Oh, Peter Lines
They’ll be handing out fines
Because you spoke your mind
You should have left it all behind…
On the table where you ply your trade
Once match is lost, just let if fade
Come back to fight another day
Or practice hard upon your play
Take a leaf out of your son’s book
He knows his way round this game, snook
Sinks balls, makes plants, shakes hands and goes
Never makes trouble for other pro’s
So what have you learned from this, old Pete?
To keep it buttoned, when you do meet
the gent who best you on the baize;
come back and play, on other days…
that is very good.
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by Juddernaut88 » 30 Aug 2021 Read
Very poor behaviour from Peter Lines. I've lost respect for him. It will be interesting to see what he has to say.
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by Running side » 30 Aug 2021 Read
Watched deciding frame on youtube ,Pete having a bad run of the balls and playing a few risky shots seems to lose composer resulting in early concession and no hand shake,got the feeling he felt hard done by,dont think he"s got previous with anger issues,be interesting to hear his side of story.
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by Prop » 30 Aug 2021 Read
Few people on social media saying Lines thought the ref replaced a ball incorrectly, and Xiao was about to take advantage of that and play an easier escape which shouldn’t have been playable.
Difficult to know what really happened. It’s probably best not to cast judgment on either player unless the full story comes out directly from both players.
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by Holden Chinaski » 30 Aug 2021 Read
Prop wrote:Few people on social media saying Lines thought the ref replaced a ball incorrectly, and Xiao was about to take advantage of that and play an easier escape which shouldn’t have been playable.
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That's what Selby did at the World Championship.
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by Prop » 30 Aug 2021 Read
Holden Chinaski wrote:Prop wrote:Few people on social media saying Lines thought the ref replaced a ball incorrectly, and Xiao was about to take advantage of that and play an easier escape which shouldn’t have been playable.
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That's what Selby did at the World Championship.
Yep.
One thing though (and maybe Murphy was guilty of not doing this in that incident with Selby) is that the ref always verifies with both players that they’re happy with the shot before play proceeds. So if it is true, how did the situation come about in the first place where a player is about to play a shot before his opponent verifies with the ref?
Or maybe Xiao verified that he was happy with the position of the balls, the ref then asked Lines for verification, and it’s then that the issue arose.
Anyway, I’m trying not to point fingers at anyone. We don’t really know the facts yet.
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by Dan-cat » 30 Aug 2021 Read
Hmmm, not a good look Lines.
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by Iranu » 30 Aug 2021 Read
People very quick to judge Lines, it seems
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by James Bentley » 30 Aug 2021 Read
All the accounts of this incident that I can find online are from Chinese sources, translated into English with varying degrees of success. This one's my favourite so far:
https://inf.news/en/sport/48732ed9f0d4d ... ae4f5.htmlPeter's surname is variously "Lines", "Lanes", "Lions" and "Lins", plus there's the memorable sentence "Xiao Guodong revealed that after the game, Lions spoke rudely to himself and vomited fragrantly".
Still no idea what went on.
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by Dan-cat » 30 Aug 2021 Read
James Bentley wrote:All the accounts of this incident that I can find online are from Chinese sources, translated into English with varying degrees of success. This one's my favourite so far:
https://inf.news/en/sport/48732ed9f0d4d ... ae4f5.htmlPeter's surname is variously "Lines", "Lanes", "Lions" and "Lins", plus there's the memorable sentence "Xiao Guodong revealed that after the game,
Lions spoke rudely to himself and vomited fragrantly".
Still no idea what went on.
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by Prop » 30 Aug 2021 Read
The plot thickens
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by lhpirnie » 30 Aug 2021 Read
There is a video of the match online, but of course the incident in the players' lounge after the match was not recorded. According to Xiao, Lines used abusive and threatening language. Lines won't respond, because the matter has been referred, so he probably isn't allowed to speak until the hearing.
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by LDS » 30 Aug 2021 Read
Well I hope this doesn't get roped into the never-ending racism circlejirk of modern conversation, as players saying nonsense to each other when they're grumpy after a match is a relatively normal aspect of sport. As is fining the primary offender accordingly, of course. But we can't get into a negative-reality loop of finding it entertaining when one type of player is the subject of abuse, but racism if one of the players happens to be non-ethnically-whatever-the-other-perceives-is-anglo-white.
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by HappyCamper » 30 Aug 2021 Read
Is there any suggestion Lines said anything racist?
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by lhpirnie » 30 Aug 2021 Read
HappyCamper wrote:Is there any suggestion Lines said anything racist?
Not at all. Apparently Lines suggested that he and Xiao resolve the matter in the car park, and a security guard was required. Xiao's comment was a little puzzling, saying he felt frightened 'as a foreigner'. That's probably just a natural fear in an unfamiliar environment when somebody is showing aggression, as Lines certainly did.
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by SnookerEd25 » 30 Aug 2021 Read
Fragrantly vomiting was uncalled for though, I feel
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by Running side » 30 Aug 2021 Read
Its a Yorkshire thing,i went for a Chinese last night,and he"d not even dun owt.
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by Scooper » 30 Aug 2021 Read
“Netizens” that’s a new one
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by Prop » 31 Aug 2021 Read
Not sure why there’s music played over the top of that incident, if that’s what it was. But I couldn’t really see anything untoward going on. Lines points his cue at the side cushion, indicating an alternative escape past the pink. Maybe he was inferring that shot wasn’t originally on, but if so he must have agreed to it otherwise Xiao wouldn’t have been able to play it.
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by SnookerEd25 » 31 Aug 2021 Read
Haven’t watached the clip but if the music is the ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ theme, then I’m good with that
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by SnookerFan » 31 Aug 2021 Read
As has been said, we've not heard Lines side of the story. But it's certainly not looking good for him.
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by Dan-cat » 31 Aug 2021 Read
Scooper wrote:“Netizens” that’s a new one
Was a dotcom bubble word back in the late 90s/early 2000s
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by Dan-cat » 31 Aug 2021 Read
SnookerFan wrote:As has been said, we've not heard Lines side of the story. But it's certainly not looking good for him.
If Xiao felt compelled enough to lodge a complaint I'd say his goose is fairly well done at this point
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by Iranu » 31 Aug 2021 Read
Dan-cat wrote:Scooper wrote:“Netizens” that’s a new one
Was a dotcom bubble word back in the late 90s/early 2000s
Yeah Scooper, get with the lingo! Rookie mistake!
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by SteveJJ » 14 Jan 2022 Read
Lines fined £2,500 and ordered to pay £5000 costs. No word if he keeps his place on the board.
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