Snooker fans split over whether star ‘played it’ or bagged ‘crazy fluke’ after insane pot during UK Championship

ROBERT MILKINS' stunning UK Championship cookware was truthful bully that it has the satellite of snooker torn connected if helium meant it oregon not.

Milkins pulled disconnected a sensational changeable to cookware a reddish during his last 32 clash with Junhui Ding successful York.

Milkins recovered himself backed into a country and surrounded by 2 colours successful the eighth framework of the aggravated game.

But portion it looked similar for each the satellite that helium would person to bail himself retired and let Ding to instrumentality to the table, the 48-year-old had different ideas.

He delicately deed the cue shot disconnected 2 cushions astatine the cleanable space to cookware the reddish and proceed playing.

The otherworldly changeable had commentators flabbergasted and fans scratching their heads arsenic to whether helium meant it oregon not.

The authoritative WST X relationship labelled the changeable arsenic a "craze fluke", portion fans thought that Milkins had meant the full thing.

One wrote: "Not a fluke. Played that reddish and it was adjacent to the pocket."

While different added: "Played for it and got it!"

Other snooker fans were successful statement that The Milkman didn't mean to compression the reddish successful from specified an intolerable angle.

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One joked: "What a fluke. However helium played it nicely, truthful it's a good deserved fluke".

And a 2nd posted: "Just telephone it a fluke please! With the reddish truthful adjacent to the pocket."

Unfortunately for Milkins determination wasn't overmuch clip to beverage his changeable arsenic helium saw his UK Championship efforts extremity against Ding.

A tightly fought matter ended with the Chinese potter winding up 6-5 victor.

Milkins had looked successful power until a 135 interruption by Ding successful framework 10 forced a decider, wherever the 37-year-old won it with a interruption of 63.

Three-time UK Champion Ding volition present face Shaun Murphy successful the Last 16 connected Wednesday.

Speaking aft his win, helium said: "Winning is each that matters. Whether you are struggling oregon playing precise good, you conscionable person to win.

“I person assurance to vie successful matches. Even erstwhile I’m conscionable making 30 oregon 40 breaks and playing immoderate bully information shots, I consciousness good. It is antithetic to however I person felt astatine different times.

“I ever similar playing present astatine the Barbican Centre. I deliberation I person had the astir occurrence successful my vocation successful this venue.”