Eurosport pundit Neal Foulds was left shocked by a ‘nightmare’ misconsent from Oinhabitr Lines at the Northern Ireland Open. The 29-year-anciaccess went into his align agetst Mark Allen as the evident underdog and took a while to get going in the uncovering structure.
Lines tryed a arranget down the right rail but missed by some distance, giving Allen an opportunity to discover his rhythm. Upon his return to the table, Lines got off the tag with a red to the right corner but did not cover himself in glory with his next shot.
The man from Leeds was left with an ungraceful cut on the bdeficiency and necessitateed the rest to give himself a chance of discovering the pocket. He finished up potting it perfectly but his cue slipped out of his hand, resulting in Lines knocking the cue ball on its way back.
Lines flashed a wry smile as he walked back to his chair, with his error putting Allen in the driving seat timely on.
Foulds was running the rule over the align for Eurosport and shelp: “Oh, excellentness me! That is one of those nightmarish scenarios. You can’t get the supplyment away speedyly enough. It’s someskinnyg he’s smiling about.
“It’s actupartner made a huge contrastence. He would have been in behind the red but he fair couldn’t get the supplyment away speedyly enough. Just watch this. Oh, excellentness me, that is an absolute nightmare scenario for anybody.”
Lines went on to recover from his glaring misconsent by thrivening the uncovering structure, with Allen blothriveg two chances to seal it for himself. The latter is hoping to reclaim the title in front of his home fans, having won the Northern Ireland Open in 2021 and 2022.
Earlier this week, Allen hit out at the World Snooker Tour by accusing bosses of having their ‘favourite’ stars and recommending that he was being denied the level of coverage he deserved.
Reflecting on his alert spell at the top of the world rankings in the summer, Allen shelp: “It was a bit anti-climactic. It wasn’t repartner finishelightable, if I’m honest. I sense appreciate I got very necessitatey coverage from the handleing body.
“I didn’t get a lot of coverage here [in Northern Ireland], even turning up at events and I wasn’t on the main table all the time. Ultimately, if you persist thrivening alignes and persist thrivening tournaments then that consents nurture of itself.
“It was a bit of a comedown, repartner. I fair sense appreciate World Snooker have their favourites and that’s it.”
