Maguire: ‘I’ve done nothing wrong’
Monday 12th January 2009, 4:30PM GMT.
Stephen Maguire has insisted snooker officials will uncover no evidence of corruption in their investigation of his controversial UK Championship match against Jamie Burnett in Shropshire.
Scotland’s Maguire beat his compatriot 9-3 in the first round at Telford International Centre last month, and some bookmakers suspended activity on the match after a flurry of wagers on that result.
Burnett missed a black in the 12th frame which would have made it 8-4 and removed any concerns about the result.
Burnett has protested his innocence and Maguire is certain there was no element of fixing involved in the match.
World Snooker officials have pledged to launch a formal investigation, with Maguire still waiting to be asked to give his take on events.
Maguire, who came back from 5-2 down to defeat Graeme Dott 6-5 in the first round of the Masters yesterday, said: “I read the papers as much as everybody else. Luckily enough I’m very, very thick-skinned.
“If I get a phonecall, I get a phonecall. I’ll help them out whatever they want to do. I know there’s nothing to worry about so it’s not really bothered me too much.
“It’s not nice. Jamie’s a good friend of mine. But I’m 100 per cent sure there’s nothing wrong, so we’ll just wait and see.
“If I had something to hide then maybe it would bother me but I’ve got absolutely nothing.”
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