Bingham: Accusation of 'no bottle' spurred me on

“I’ve got to give thanks to Mark Allen. He got my back up that week in Australia by saying I had no bottle, but since then that’s all changed.”

Stuart Bingham has revealed how a casual jibe from Northern Irish cueman Mark Allen spurred him to become world champion.

Allen claimed in 2011 that Bingham had “no bottle”, but it came back to haunt the Antrim man when he lost to the Basildon potter at the Australian Goldfields Open that year.