‘I was in a state’: Rob Milkins is definitely a cider drinker
For snooker’s cash-hungry blazers, the Turkish Masters is an important new event in the calendar, and its opening ceremony was a chance to schmooze the local dignitaries and curry favour with the sponsors.
It was absolutely not the occasion to arrive thuggishly pissed, get into a scrap and leave in an ambulance. Unfortunately world number 44 Robert Milkins didn’t get the memo.
After turning up late because he’d been drinking all day to celebrate his birthday, The Milkman started a fight with some VIP guests and fell over in the loo, splitting his chin open.
He then got into another bust up with snooker boss Jason Ferguson before an ambulance took him to hospital where he had his stomach pumped.
Milkins, who uses The Wurzels hit I Am a Cider Drinker as his walk-on music, said later: “I drank far too much. I don’t know exactly what happened — I was in a state where I didn’t know where I was.”
