Innocent snooker players unwittingly dragged into one of sport’s greatest match-fixing scandals reacted with horror on Tuesday.
Rob Milkins was one of the players of last season – winning the Welsh Open and pocketing around £400,000 after claiming a bumper series bonus.
But as 10 Chinese players were banned including Liang Wenbo and Li Hang for life it emerged that Milkins’ 5-0 win against Lu Ning in a European Masters qualifier last July had been corrupt. Lu was banned for five years and four months for fixing four matches in total, as well as failing to cooperate with the investigation, and betting on snooker.
