Neil Robertson revealed Chelsea captain John Terry urged him to keep his head after firing a history-making maximum break during his Betway UK Championship triumph in York.

Chelsea fan Robertson is good friends with the Blues skipper, and after beating China's Liang Wenbo 10-5 to secure his second UK title in three years the Australian explained how mid-match text message encouragement from Terry had given him the impetus to get over the line.

Along with a £150,000 winner's cheque, Robertson snatched the bonus of £44,000 for making his immaculate 147 break in the sixth frame.

It was the first maximum made in a final of any of snooker's Triple Crown tournaments: the Masters, World Championship or UK.

And now Robertson wants to repay Terry for his backing by inspiring Chelsea to revive their flagging season, starting with the crucial Champions League clash with Porto on Wednesday.

Robertson will take along his UK trophy to that match, and the 33-year-old world number three is ready to show it off to the Chelsea stars if they need a reminder of how it feels to land silverware.

"JT texted me after I made the max and said, 'Just keep concentrating and bring the trophy on Wednesday'," Robertson said.

"He's maybe asked me to do that to motivate the boys, so I'll definitely take the trophy to Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, that's the next thing I'm excited about.

"That's not going too well at the moment and it's been quite hard to concentrate on snooker."

Chelsea are floating puzzlingly close to the relegation zone in the Premier League, and risk going out of the Champions League before the knock-out stage if they lose to Jose Mourinho's former club.

Robertson understands how it feels to experience an unforeseen slump.

He said: "Only the players know - I had a really lean spell for about 12 months until I won the Champion of Champions title last month.

"There's no specific reason for it, sometimes results just go against you and your opponents play too well. I'm sure they can turn it around and I'll be cheering them on, on Wednesday night."

Asked about his 147, Robertson said: "The way I held myself together at the end there, it was an incredible feeling.

"I'm going to have a pretty decent Christmas to say the least. I've got to enjoy this moment, relax and get ready to go again for the Masters."

That event comes next month in London, with Robertson looking to improve on his Masters showing from the start of this year, when he lost to Shaun Murphy in the final.

He won the Masters in 2012, and with the full set of majors already secured in his career Robertson is finding different inspiration and setting new targets.

"Now it's just about trying to put myself among the greats that have won multiple titles, multiple Masters, UK and Worlds," he said.

In what was the first UK Championship final between two overseas stars, Robertson beat his opponent without being consistently at his best. The maximum means the match will be long remembered, however.

After a 6-0 semi-final victory over Mark Selby on Saturday evening, Robertson said he would play computer games into the early hours before bedding down for the night.

He went about the perfect clearance that brought the maximum jackpot with such precision it was close to virtual reality snooker, Robertson with such unflinching control over the cue ball. The plant he made to pot the ninth red was never in doubt and the punch of the air in delight was richly deserved, as was the standing ovation from the Barbican Centre crowd.

Even Liang joined in, clapping and then hugging his opponent, who now has managed three maximums in his career, two of them in China, snooker's second heartland.

Robertson was almost on the receiving end of a 147 in the third round when opponent Thepchaiya Un-Nooh missed the black off its spot as the prospect of glory saw him caught like a rabbit in the headlights.

While he could sympathise with Un-Nooh at the time, Robertson ultimately had cause to be grateful for that miss. He would have had to share the spoils of his own masterful break had Un-Nooh slotted that seemingly straightforward ball.