{"id":410236,"date":"2026-04-21T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410236\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:56:08","slug":"murphy-unhappy-with-fans-crude-comment-at-the-crucible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410236\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy unhappy with fan&#8217;s crude comment at the Crucible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shaun Murphy has blasted an audience member who berated one of his shots during the opening session of his first-round match against Fan Zhengyi at the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy said he lost concentration after a spectator in the front row muttered &#8220;s*** shot&#8221; during a gruelling battle which the former champion edged 5-4, ahead of Tuesday evening&#8217;s conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy wrote on Instagram: &#8220;Just a friendly reminder that if you\u2019re sat on the front row in the Crucible and I play a shot that may not work for a particular reason, it\u2019s probably best not to say &#8216;s*** shot\u2019 out loud. I\u2019ve got ears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murphy joked: &#8220;I missed my last shot as I was contemplating which end of my cue to hit him with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">WHAT a finish from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Magician147\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Magician147<\/a> last night! \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldChampionship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WorldChampionship<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gFwLl3VQx9\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/gFwLl3VQx9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WST (@WeAreWST) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreWST\/status\/2046514865175507294\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Judd Trump hauled back an early 3-1 deficit to nudge 5-4 in front of Gary Wilson in a match that was also due to conclude on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson made a superb break of 139 as he moved into a commanding lead but Trump responded brilliantly with breaks of 128 and 77 as he looked to go deep in the tournament and protect his current status as world number one.<\/p>\n<p>Liam Pullen made four half-centuries but still trails 13th seed Chris Wakelin 5-4 after the first session of their first-round match that concludes on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pullen, 20, looked unfazed on his tournament debut and delivered a crucial break of 58 to win the final frame of the morning and keep himself well in contention.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaun Murphy has blasted an audience member who berated one of his shots during the opening session of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-410236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}