2008 UK Championship (snooker)
The 2008 Maplin UK Championship professional ranking snooker tournament was held between 13–21 December 2008 at the Telford International Centre, Telford, England. It was the 32nd edition of the event.
World Snooker, the sports governing body, opened an investigation into allegations of match fixing, after Stephen Maguire beat Jamie Burnett 9–3 in the first round. Several bookmakers had stopped taking bets on the match before it even started, when reports of a number of large sums having been placed on the same correct score began to circulate within the industry. Just prior to the 2009 World Championship, where ironically Maguire and Burnett were drawn together the first round, it was announced that Strathclyde Police had opened an official enquiry into the match. The enquiry was closed in 2011 with no criminal charges against either of them, and a World Snooker disciplinary enquiry was announced, which ended without any regulatory action.
Shaun Murphy won the title with a 10–9 victory over Marco Fu.
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