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Northern Irishman Allen won the ill-tempered
contest at Milton Keynes 6-3 after the players clashed, with
O'Sullivan saying his opponent was moving in his eyeline to
throw him off his game.
Referee Marcel Eckardt eventually restored order and O'Sullivan
missed a straightforward red when the action resumed, allowing
Allen to close out the win and set up a semi-final with
top-ranked Judd Trump.
"I don't know what he was on about, he was saying I was moving
in his eyeline, I was standing in front of the shots, I was
moving in my seat," Allen told reporters.
"Marcel even said, 'Mark, I know you're not doing anything but
let it go'. I'm not going to let it go if he's going to make up
rubbish.
"Ronnie just tries to bully people out there and I wasn't having
any of it."
O'Sullivan said there were no hard feelings following his
defeat.
"Maybe I read a bit too much into it but it just seemed a little
bit like stuff you do down the snooker club when you're an
amateur and trying to get into your opponent's head or put him
off," O'Sullivan told ITV4.
"There's no point letting it go and he carries on doing it, so I
thought, 'let's get it out of the way' ... Mark played fantastic
and deserved his victory but sometimes you've got to say
something and get it out of the way."
(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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