Tom Ford jokingly offered the referee his cue after the cue ball ran out of position during his UK Snooker Championship semi-final defeat by Ding Junhui.
Ford was facing a whitewash defeat against Ding losing the first five frames. Despite potting a yellow in the sixth frame he was unimpressed by the position of the white offering referee Eckardt his cue causing the crowd to laugh and referee to smirk.
The Englishman, searching for a first UK Championship final place, then staged an unlikely fightback winning the sixth frame and then the following two to pull himself back to 5-3.
