Luke Littler and Luke Humphries had traveled to Frankfurt as the absolute top favorites. But for the English dream duo, the team World Cup ended again after the first game in the round of 16 against Germany. Ex-professional Dennis Priestley finds clear words about the performance of the superstars, which the world champion does not want to sit on.
“You let your country down at the World Cup of Darts,” said the 74-year-old in an interview with “Olbg” and followed: “After what we heard, they did not sit together or train together.” A fact that BDO world champion from 1991 cannot understand at all.
“When I played with Phil Taylor in doubles, we trained and sat together, we played all over the world and I can only remember that we were once defeated,” criticized the former world-class player, criticized the current number one and two of the PDC Order of Merit.
After the final defeat against Northern Ireland, the Welsh superstar Gerwyn Price had indicated that Littler and Humphries did not spend too much time together in Frankfurt. “They didn’t train together behind the scenes, they did not sit together, they didn’t appear like a team,” said the “Iceman”.
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Priestley also did not agree that the two English darts superstars were most recently recognized as “Member of Order of the British Empire” as part of the King’s Birthday Honors to honor their merits for sport. “To be honest, I don’t think one of the two did enough to earn it,” he said.
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The award for the duo “feels very early, they both won a world championship, but still have a long way to go”. Littler immediately responded to the critical statements of ex-professional in his Instagram story.
“The Nuke” posted a screenshot of an article that recorded the priestley criticism and provided it with the caption: “I don’t earn the MBE title, but I did more in twelve months than he ever did … I would say that at least.”