Yan stuns Higgins to win Masters title
18/01/2021
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Yan Bingtao's superb fightback on debut stuns Scotland's John Higgins as the Chinese sensation becomes the youngest Masters champion in 26 years.
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I dont think Chinese players should be allowed to participate in snooker because it is their country which caused covid.Banning them should be one of many consequences for what China has done.
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Free speech is dead and buried at the pathetic bbc if it doesnt suit their left wing agenda.Comments get removed.Free Speech RIP.
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There's nowt as deluded as a right-winger peddling easily verifiable lies??????
By that logic, I'm not an MP...does that mean I can't criticise the government?
Can't be bothered to watch this. Anyone know what score the scotsman has fixed so I din't have to bother?
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One of these players is a match fixer and a cheat.
Good luck to the one who isn't. Removed
Good luck to the one who isn't. Removed
That’s libellous and defamatory. Reported.
Reported.
What did you mean to type?
Question Who is a nosey neighbour in the Morning, a pretend Traffic warden in the Afternoon, and the makes out he is a copper early evening, and worst of all a prefect in his own house at night, answers must make Sense or Sense&ability please watch out he loves nothing more that to report rubbish as he has no life
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It was good to see earlier that Chinese racist remarks will not be tolerated by posters and the BBC. No place for that anymore.
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Yep, I reported the troll who kept posting racist slurs, only for him to turn on me. Some people really are disgraceful.
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So pleased Higgins got beat. I think he is a cheat. He should have been thrown out the sport. In my view. He took snookers reputation to the gutter. The governing body were very weak. I don't care what he does. His (achievements) are tarnished.
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Bet Higgins earned more than Yan from his commissions after throwing it. Wizard of Wishaw? Warlock of William Hill more like!
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Always great when a cheat does not win
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The match fixer Higgins should never have been allowed to play professional snooker again.
Anything he "achieves" now is irrelevant.
Anything he "achieves" now is irrelevant.
Has to be good for the game that (it wasn't a multi-millionaire player who was secretly filmed agreeing to lose matches for a few thousand pounds) Yan won it.
Don't understand why Higgins is still allowed to compete. Can't be trusted.
Gr££dy.
Don't understand why Higgins is still allowed to compete. Can't be trusted.
Gr££dy.
Thx Baron, nothing like staying informed & up to date (and indeed, you ARE nothing like it!). NO match was fixed in the JH case. Here's a list of cases (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_snooker_players_investigated_for_match-fixing) & a KEY PHRASE keeps appearing "suspicious betting patterns). Players know it's just about impossible to achieve a fix, given the sophisticated bookie processes.
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"Higgins odious"? No knowledge of actual FACTS then?? World Snooker dealt with that case, the actual guilty party was banned for life (& HE had been on that Board back then!!!). No match WAS fixed in that case, and "suspicious betting patterns" quickly alert bookies to a potential fix. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/sep/08/john-higgins-banned-cleared-match-fixing
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Thx Kenny. No knowledge of actual FACTS then?? World Snooker dealt with it all, the actual guilty party was banned for life (& HE had been on that Board back then!!!). No match WAS fixed in that case, and "suspicious betting patterns" quickly alert bookies to a potential fix. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/sep/08/john-higgins-banned-cleared-match-fixing
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Thx Mark. No knowledge of actual FACTS then?? World Snooker dealt with it all, the actual guilty party was banned for life (& HE had been on that Board back then!!!). No match WAS fixed in that case, and "suspicious betting patterns" quickly alert bookies to a potential fix. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/sep/08/john-higgins-banned-cleared-match-fixing (Check Wiki too for 'fix' cases)
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Thx Nando. No knowledge of actual FACTS then?? World Snooker dealt with it all, the actual guilty party was banned for life (& HE had been on that Board back then!!!). No match WAS fixed in that case, and "suspicious betting patterns" quickly alert bookies to a potential fix. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/sep/08/john-higgins-banned-cleared-match-fixing {check Wiki for the 'fix' cases]
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Excellent performance? Robertson, Maguire and Bingham all played well below par. Bingtao as good as received a bye straight to the final. Then Higgins played the game of his life to knock out Ronnie. Then surprise, surprise....another below par performance to hand him the trophy. Never in the history of the game has a player been handed a tournament on a plate like Bingtao.
The mass infiltration of Chinese players is a worry for the game. Robotic, no emotion performances are not what snooker fans like to see. You only have to listen to the audiences who shout "Go on Ronnie" to know that we like to see flair, personality and outrageous shots to know what we snooker fans prefer. I can only see BBC audience ratings plummet if the Chinese trend continues. RIP Snooker.
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The mass infiltration of Chinese players is a worry for the game. Robotic, no emotion performances are not what snooker fans like to see. You only have to listen to the audiences who shout "Go on Ronnie" to know that we like to see flair, personality and outrageous shots to know what we snooker fans prefer. I can only see BBC audience ratings plummet if the Chinese trend continues. RIP Snooker.
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