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MURPHY SPRINGS TO DEFENCE OF CRUCIBLE AFTER SMELLY COMMENTS

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April 22, 20246:51 PM GMT+2Updated 6 days ago
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Snooker - World Snooker Championship - The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, Britain
- April 22, 2024 General view during the first round games between England's
Mark Selby v England's Joe O'Connor and Wales' Mark Williams v China's Si Jiahui
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April 22 (Reuters) - Former world champion Shaun Murphy has described criticism
of snooker's fabled Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England as sacrilege after
Iran's Hossein Vafaei described it as smelly.
The start of this year's World Championship has been overshadowed by verbal pot
shots at the iconic venue that has hosted the tournament since 1977.
Responding to Vafaei's comments, 2005 champion Murphy said: "Maybe having not
grown up in the UK, Hossein's not as emotionally connected to this tournament as
many of the UK players are?
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"This is holy ground for snooker players and Hossein should remember that. He
said he doesn't want to come back. Don't come back."
Vafaei lost 10-5 in the opening round to former champion Judd Trump but kicked
up quite a stink with his post-match comments, saying the tournament would be
better suited to a new venue in Saudi Arabia or China.
"Everything's so bad -- if you ask me if I want to come back here, I would tell
you no way," he said.
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"Forget the history, you want to go somewhere really nice as a player. You walk
round the Crucible and it smells really bad. You go to other countries, and
everything is shiny.
"The practice room -- do you see anything special? I feel like I'm practising in
a garage."
Murphy, a member of the WPBSA Players Board, accepts that the Crucible is small
with less than 1,000 seats but believes it should still continue to host the
tournament beyond 2027 when the current contract expires.

"If World Snooker Tour turned up tomorrow to do a site visit they probably
wouldn't come here because it's not big enough. There's nothing we can do about
that," he said.
"But this is holy ground and it's almost sacrilege for a professional snooker
player to be so openly critical about our home. The World Championship, in my
opinion, should stay in this building. But it's economics isn't it?"
Vafaei is not the only player to express his dislike for the Crucible.
Seven-times winner and this year's favourite Ronnie O'Sullivan also said it was
time to move on.
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"I don't like the Crucible. I don't think you can get in and out of it," the
Londoner told The Sun in the build-up. "I think definitely it's a wise decision
to take it away from Sheffield."

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