But when he angrily returned to his chair, the referee stopped the game by asking Trump to wait – and accused O’Sullivan of making an obscene gesture.
O’Sullivan vehemently denied the accusation – and asked “Tell me what you saw?”. Then he got angry: “You didn’t see anything, don’t start – go and look at the camera”, directing Martel to the video of the marker.
All this time, Trump was waiting to play his shot at a key stage of the session. And then the unfortunate world No. 4 joined in, asking how the employee handled the problem.
After Martil told Trump “I had to say something,” Trump said, “Couldn’t you do it after the game?”
O’Sullivan, still protesting his innocence, said when he re-entered his locker room: “He’s looking for trouble, you’re getting the mood from the man.
“They have hundreds of cameras and he can go check them all. I’m not going to have any of that because he’s just trying to create something. ”
A statement issued by the World Snooker Tour after the second incident read: “Ronnie O’Sullivan received an official warning from the referee after a gesture he made in the eighth frame. There will be no further comments on this issue. ”
This practically meant that he was walking on a tightrope, and another warning meant that the frame was hooked, and something else that forced him to miss the finish.
Although O’Sullivan vehemently denied the latter accusation in a gesture, he was referred to the disciplinary committee for a separate incident earlier in the event.
Incredibly, this was O’Sullivan’s second confrontation with the official, with the two-day finale still in its early hours.
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