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Re: Has Peter Crossed The Line With Xiao Guodong?

Postby SnookerEd25

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…

Re: Has Peter Crossed The Line With Xiao Guodong?

Postby Juddernaut88

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…


:hatoff: that is very good.

Re: Has Peter Crossed The Line With Xiao Guodong?

Postby Running side

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.

Re: Has Peter Crossed The Line With Xiao Guodong?

Postby Prop

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.

Re: Has Peter Crossed The Line With Xiao Guodong?

Postby Holden Chinaski

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.

Re: Has Peter Crossed The Line With Xiao Guodong?

Postby Prop

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.
.

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.

Re: Has Peter Crossed The Line With Xiao Guodong?

Postby James Bentley

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.html

Peter'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.

Re: Has Peter Crossed The Line With Xiao Guodong?

Postby Dan-cat

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.html

Peter'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.


rofl rofl

Re: Has Peter Crossed The Line With Xiao Guodong?

Postby lhpirnie

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.

Re: Has Peter Crossed The Line With Xiao Guodong?

Postby LDS

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.

Re: Has Peter Crossed The Line With Xiao Guodong?

Postby lhpirnie

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.

Re: Has Peter Crossed The Line With Xiao Guodong?

Postby Prop

lhpirnie wrote:If you're interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvg9eibbw0

Just over 9 minutes into the video.

There wasn't any outburst at the table, it all happened later.


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.

Re: Has Peter Crossed The Line With Xiao Guodong?

Postby Iranu

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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