After a difficult last season, the 2011 World Championship silver medallist is considerably more under-the-radar than fellow Britons, such as Mo Farah, who will also compete today having switched from yesterday's 10,000m to the 5,000m.
"It's been a difficult last couple of months for so many reasons," acknowledged O'Shea.
He said: "It has been a difficult last few weeks and all the lads are gutted that Mick has gone.
United's new £58m signing Anthony Martial subsequently scored twice and there was another for Juan Mata before Pelle's second made it a difficult last few minutes for United.
He led 2-1 with a 112 break in the third frame that ended when he missed a difficult last red down the side cushion only eight pots short of a 147 and the £157,000 bonus that accompanies it.
The opposing cults of Furtwängler adoration and vilification have persisted to this day, but there is undoubtedly also a third stream of younger listeners for whom he is simply another forgotten German musician with a difficult last name.
