Mark Allen shows true colours with private comment to Shaun Murphy as star makes claim

Peace has breached retired betwixt Shaun Murphy and Mark Allen pursuing the warfare of words betwixt the snooker rivals which erupted earlier this season

Mark Allen showed his people with a sporting motion aft Shaun Murphy’s 147 interruption astatine the Masters.

The pair, who person been adjacent friends, person been embroiled successful a warfare of words implicit the past fewer months. At the UK Championship successful November, Murphy, portion connected BBC commentary duty, accused Allen of deliberate dilatory play successful his semi-final against Barry Hawkins.

Allen deed backmost connected societal media, telling Murphy to “leave idiosyncratic feelings retired of the commentary box”. He added: “All due to the fact that I called retired immoderate of his caller BS.”

Murphy subsequently denied determination was thing idiosyncratic down his comments, though the brace person clashed connected a fig of issues successful caller months. Allen admitted the brace had “grown apart” anterior to their semi-final gathering astatine the Masters.

However, determination was a wide amusement of respect before, during and aft Murphy’s 6-3 victory, which featured a stunning maximum break. After the Magician sunk the achromatic to bring the location down astatine Alexandra Palace, Allen rapidly congratulated his rival. It was a classy motion from Allen, who enactment speech their aggravated rivalry to admit the achievement.

Speaking connected his onefourseven podcast, Murphy, who had missed a maximum effort against Neil Robertson earlier successful the week, revealed what Allen said to him. He said: “He was precise complementary, helium was benignant and precise sporting. I deliberation helium said thing like, ‘you made up for the different day’. It was nice.”

Murphy, who is connected the WPBSA board, past expressed his anticipation that the atrocious humor betwixt the brace was present down them. He added: “It would beryllium bully to enactment that full happening to bed, to beryllium honest.

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“Differences of sentiment are good and we’ve had a fig of differences of sentiment passim our lives. We’re some precise opinionated.

“It’s not a daze that our opinions don’t ever align. But that’s however advancement is made, that’s however alteration is made.

“So it would beryllium bully to enactment each that to bed. We’ve been friends for a agelong clip and I anticipation we’re friends for an adjacent longer time. I’m definite it won’t beryllium the past clip we person a disagreement.”

Murphy went connected to triumph the tourney for the archetypal clip since 2015 by beating world champion Kyren Wilson 10-7 successful Sunday's final.