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- Someone farted during a pool game at the Northern Ireland Open on Wednesday.
- The referee was first blamed as he looked bright red after Ronnie O’Sullivan looked at him after the fart and then missed his shot.
- After the game, O’Sullivan revealed that he had farted and jokingly asked the referee if he had.
- O’Sullivan said he has had stomach problems for months and has undergone tests.
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Ronnie O’Sullivan, the world’s second-largest snooker player, performed the oldest trick in the game on Thursday after farting during a match at the Northern Ireland Open.
During the Eurosport broadcast of O’Sullivan’s match against Matthew Stevens, the distinctive sound of a fart was heard, but not who did it.
The cameras cut to O’Sullivan, grinning, looking back and forth between his opponent and the referee.
O’Sullivan then lined up his shot and missed. Cameras showed the referee, bright red, walking around the table.
“It was a very unfortunate noise,” said one of the commenters. “I don’t know who it was, but I have my suspicions.”
—Sam ✌️ (@ samisam147) November 19, 2020
After the match, however, O’Sullivan revealed that he had actually farted.
“I dropped my guts,” O’Sullivan said after the game, via Eurosport’s Ben Snowball. “I have had severe stomach problems for the past three months. I have been tested at the hospital.
“I said to the referee, ‘Was it you?’ We laughed a lot. But I’m totally owning it. “
According to The Sun, the tournament office, home to the umpires, also confirmed that O’Sullivan had farted.
O’Sullivan won the match, 4-2.
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