{"id":38628,"date":"2025-04-21T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38628\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:17:10","slug":"snooker-scores-live-ronnie-osullivan-could-still-withdraw-today-as-x-big-names-out-other-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38628\/","title":{"rendered":"Snooker scores LIVE: Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan could still withdraw today as X big names out | Other | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hossein Vafaei has moved to defend himself after roaring to the crowd during his 10-9 win over Barry Hawkins. The Iranian has apologised for his actions but said his emotion wasn&#8217;t directed at Hawkins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the moment during the deciding frame, my mind went negative,\u201d he said. \u201cI had to change something. I needed to give something a go and let the animal come out again. It was a trick to my mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to say sorry to my opponent, I couldn\u2019t handle it. I was under so much pressure, and I didn\u2019t want to exit again, first round. I just wanted to send a message to myself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s personal, and it has nothing to do with my opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/othersport\/2044335\/Hossein-Vafaei-celebration-Barry-Hawkins-world-snooker-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FULL STORY HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hossein Vafaei has moved to defend himself after roaring to the crowd during his 10-9 win over Barry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[22041,20143,18515,10380,22044,22043,22042,79,16,22040,15,18411],"class_list":{"0":"post-38628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-judd-trump","9":"tag-kyren-wilson","10":"tag-ronnie-osullivan","11":"tag-snooker","12":"tag-snooker-latest","13":"tag-snooker-news","14":"tag-snooker-scores","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-uk-championship-snooker","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-world-snooker-championship"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114376621688126353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}