 Complete the following phrase:  Murphy started playing the game on a reduced-size table his parents bought him in order to keep him off the streets of his native Derry while growing up, before he moved to The Midlands when he was a teenager. Murphy turned professional in 1991, and represented Northern Ireland at the World Cup in 1996, and also had his highest-ranking finish of a quarter-final in the 1997 Welsh Open. He reached a career high ranking of 29th in a hrefSnooker20world20rankings2019971998Snooker world rankings 19971998a and a hrefSnooker20world20rankings201998199919981999a. He appeared in the 