Matthew Selt has been faraway from his position on the WPBSA Gamers board, it was introduced earlier this week.
In a brief assertion launched on its web site, the World Skilled Billiards and Snooker Affiliation revealed that Selt can be eliminated with “quick impact”.
“On 6 Could 2025 The World Skilled Billiards and Snooker Affiliation (Gamers) Restricted (the “Firm”) held a common assembly of its members at which an odd decision to take away Mr. Matthew Selt from the workplace of director was handed, with quick impact,” the assertion mentioned.
“The Firm will proceed in accordance with its governance and regulatory obligations following this modification and no additional remark will likely be made right now.”
Matthew Selt had beforehand occupied the position of vice chairman of the WPBSA Gamers, having been voted onto the board in December, 2023.
Nevertheless, it doesn’t look like the opposite gamers had a lot of a say within the resolution to take away the 40 year-old from his place.
“Though factually right,” learn a publish on X from fellow professional Mark Allen, “the WPBSA’s gamers solely member is the WPBSA. No gamers acquired a vote on this.”
Selt has been caught up in quite a lot of controversial incidents not too long ago, nevertheless it’s unclear whether or not any of those contributed to his downfall on the committee.
Earlier this yr, the previous Indian Open champion was fined £21,000 and given a three-month ban, which is being suspended till the conclusion of the 2025/26 marketing campaign.
The Englishman was discovered to be in breach of the WPBSA Conduct Rules along with his contract with the World Snooker Tour.
A assertion launched by the WPBSA in February defined that the case stemmed from incidents that passed off throughout his involvement on the 2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters.
Selt was adjudged to have been “aggressive in his behaviour and was impolite and abusive in his language in the direction of a Matchroom Senior Govt within the presence of an essential WST Companion.”
It was additionally revealed that “he despatched an abusive textual content to a WPBSA Member.”
There have been different high-profile instances involving Selt throughout the not too long ago concluded 2024/25 season.
He was ridiculed for his wild behaviour on the German Masters qualifiers in Sheffield in December.
After exiting the competitors with a 5-4 defeat to Artemijs Zizins – a teenage rookie from Latvia – Selt could possibly be heard shouting in anger whereas loud bangs have been additionally audible within the extensively shared footage.
Then on the latest World Snooker Championship qualifiers on the English Institute of Sport, Selt revealed that opponent Jimmy Robertson had made a grievance about him throughout their dramatic Judgement Day encounter.
Trailing 8-3 and 9-6 within the closing spherical of qualifying for the Crucible, Selt launched a gritty comeback to defeat his countryman 10-9 on the ultimate black.
In his post-match interview, nevertheless, he revealed that Robertson had made a grievance that his behaviour throughout the match had been “distracting”.
“I’ve to apologise and make an apology to Jimmy,” Matthew Selt instructed the World Snooker Tour instantly after the match ended.
“He mentioned that I used to be distracting him and placing him off. So this win, there isn’t a good feeling in anyway in the direction of it.”
“I really feel genuinely gutted to be trustworthy. I’m completely happy to win however to not the purpose the place my actions could have contributed in the direction of his declining efficiency.
“That’s sport, I suppose. I wasn’t doing something utterly out of order. However my feeling is fairly flatline, and I simply need to ship my apologies to Jimmy.”
Selt went on to seem the Crucible Theatre for the fifth time in his profession, however he duly misplaced 10-4 to Xiao Guodong.
He ended the season with a world rating of 34.
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