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26th November 2021
04:49pm GMT

"We are self-employed individuals and not contracted sportsmen. We don’t play for a team. The other 127 runners and riders in the tournament, it is their livelihood too.
"It is wrong, in my opinion, to walk into somebody who is not playing with the same pressures and concerns I am."
https://twitter.com/WeAreWST/status/1463296498469384195 Jihau was a former professional, however, he fell off the main tour at the end of last season - and he hasn't received support from Selby, who agreed with Murphy's comments. As per the MailOnline, Selby said: "I think a lot of players agree with him."Because [Shaun] said it after he lost, people probably think it is sour grapes and he wouldn't have said it if he had won – but I totally stand by everything he said.
"There's a reason there is a Q [qualifying] School to try to get on [the professional tour], and if you don't get on, you should have to wait another year and play in the amateur events."
The World Snooker Tour allows for amateur players to enter the UK Championship via the 'top-up' system as a replacement for any of the 128 professionals are unable to take part in the tournament.Explore more on these topics:

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