It was day seven of the 2010 World Snooker Championship, in the second round, and Neil Robertson was starting to panic. He was 6-0 down to the bespectacled assassin Martin Gould, a man so inconsistent as to be positively dangerous. Gould had already knocked out the eighth seed, Marco Fu, and he was well on his way to killing off the ninth seed too.
“Crowds love seeing an underdog win,” recalls Robertson. “He really thrived off that. He just completely went for it and everything was flying in. He was unplayable.”
