Yes Ronnie would have called it on himself, and I think I would have called it on myself also. I would have been much happier if Yapp called it on himself but he didn't....I mean look at his face again as the 8ball went down, he couldn't even breathe he knew its a foul.
This is the 2nd time that he won the final rack of a major finals tournament with a foul. I'm still convinced that he touched the 9ball on my other post about yapp's final, but yea...it is what it is, tournaments with horrible referee's what can you say.
I’m not 100 percent certain how Ronnie or the other top snooker pros would have handled it. They always call fouls on things they control or feel (touching a ball, feathering the CB, double hits) but it’s a bit different on which ball was hit first.
I saw Shaun Murphy (I think) ask the referee to watch the replay when he thought he might have hit the wrong ball and the ref had said nothing. The replay showed that it was a good hit.
I don’t know what he would have done (or should have done) if the ref said it was good and he thought the video showed a foul. Even when you are being honourable, at some point the ref is the final call.
There is a famous video where the black would not sit on its spot and kept rolling off a bit (just enough that Ronnie could see a red that should have been blocked by the black. The ref eventually said she couldn’t get it any better. His solution was to play a safe off a different red, turning down an easy pot. That was a creative solution to a difficult problem.
