"He doesn't like to listen to too many people, like when I was younger, even to this day."Īllen travels to Sheffield this week for the World Championship. "He likes to go for his shots and he's very quick round the table," Allen added. The Pistol didn't hit his first 147 until he was 15. "I do see bits of my younger self in Robbie but he's way further ahead than I was at his age," he said. As soon as he gets home from school he gets his homework done just so that he can get more snooker practice and when he's not in school he just lives in the club."Īllen added that although he started slightly later than Robbie in the sport, he saw glimmers of his teenage years in the youngster's play. "I'm always saying to him you don't have to play snooker just because I do, but he genuinely wants to play. "But soon after he took to it like a duck to water. "I remember the first time Robbie held a cue in the kitchen he held it the wrong way round," Mark laughed, as Robbie smiled and shrugged it off.
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If he follows in the footsteps of his stepdad, then he's bound for success.Īllen turned professional in 2005 and 'The Pistol' has proved a force to be reckoned with. If I keep practising the way I am, though, I think I've got every chance of doing it." "I'd love to be professionally playing at the World Championships but I've a long way to go. I've a lot of people that take me to snooker tournaments and it's great to have professionals to talk to. When asked what he thought about having the first Northern Ireland champion since Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins and Dennis Taylor in the 1980s as his guide, Robbie joked: "He's all right."
Not many players starting off in their career can say their mentor is a Masters winner. "I had a 135 (break) just two frames before it and I was happy enough just to have that, never mind a 147." Then once I got it, I just let it all out. "You never really think about it happening at this age, you just get on with it. "I was on about an 80 break and the reds were sitting nicely," he explained. The humble teenager took it all in his stride. The further 27 points are won by sinking the six colours in sequence. The maximum break in snooker is achieved by potting all 15 red balls and 15 blacks for 120 points. "When I'm not at school I'm down at the snooker club for about nine or 10 hours a day," he said.Īnd now, to add to his list of honours, the big Manchester United fan has claimed one of the game's toughest targets - which was captured by the club's CCTV cameras. He's won six thereafter, as well as playing in a European championship in Bulgaria.
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