Maguire addresses 20-year Murphy feud before Crucible tie

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Maguire addresses 20-year Murphy feud before Crucible tie
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Snooker rivals Stephen Maguire and Shaun Murphy will renew their long-standing rivalry on Thursday during this year's World Championship at the Crucible in Sheffield

Stephen Maguire claims that his infamous chalk-gate incident with Shaun Murphy will "never be resolved" because his long-time snooker rival won't admit it.

Ever since, some have held the belief that future world champion Murphy controversially asked the match referee, the late Johan Oomen, to dock his opponent a frame. "We can't resolve it because he always says he never said to the referee," Maguire, 43, explained. "We've all grown up, he's got kids, I've got kids. We don't go for meals. But we walk by each other and talk about snooker and everything's okay."

"It's crazy when you think about it that we've played each other since we were 11 or 12 years old. It's mad because there are a few of us. Ryan Day, Ricky Walden, we've all grown up together and we're still competing against each other.

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