Wayne Mardle ‘anticipated higher’ from Van Gerwen after ‘unfair’ Luke Littler moan
Wayne Mardle “expected better” from Michael van Gerwen after the Dutchman’s moan in regards to the consideration on Luke Littler.
The now 17-year-old is the discuss of darts following his gorgeous run to the ultimate of the Paddy Power World Championship, the place he was edged out by world primary Luke Humphries. He adopted up by profitable the Bahrain Masters, beating Van Gerwen within the remaining.
MVG obtained his personal again per week later, beating the Nuke within the remaining of the Dutch Masters. The three-time world champion and seven-time Premier League winner has accused individuals of forgetting about Humphries’ triumph as Littler fever took maintain.
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Van Gerwen insisted it was “unfair” and had “taken away the glory of Luke Humphries”. Another former world champion, Gary Anderson, unleashed a good stronger rant in regards to the media’s curiosity in Littler throughout the Worlds, saying it might break the teenager.
However, Sky Sports commentator and pundit Wayne Mardle utterly disagrees with the pair and believes the concentrate on the Nuke is completely justified given the eye he has dropped at the game.
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“I expect better from Michael van Gerwen,” Mardle informed Daily Star Sport forward of the 2024 Premier League. “Gary Anderson at all times likes to place a dampener on issues and play issues down. So I’d count on feedback from Gary, saying ‘leave the kid alone’, however Michael is aware of the media.
“No one performs the media higher in darts than Michael van Gerwen. And with out the media, they wouldn’t be enjoying for hundreds of thousands yearly, they’d be enjoying for tons of. The media, it doesn’t matter what outlet it’s, is massively wanted.
“So I was surprised at Michael. Maybe it was an on-the-spot answer, I don’t know. But how can you not talk about the most talked about thing in the sport?
“Everyone wants to talk about Luke Littler, about how good he is, about his age. If the media didn’t talk about him, Michael would be saying, ‘what are you not talking about him?’”
Littler’s look within the World remaining drew an viewers of virtually 5million on Sky Sports. It blew the thoughts of Mardle, who feared darts had peaked across the time of Phil Taylor’s retirement from the highest degree in 2018.
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“Darts, I can’t work it out,” he confessed. “I’m part of the sport but I try to be an outsider looking in, even though I’m in the inner sanctum. I thought it had peaked around 2017, 18. Then Phil left the game and I thought, ‘I wonder where we go from here?’
“Darts existed before Eric Bristow, he took it to different heights. Then we had Phil and Van Gerwen, now we’ve got Littler. There’s a million reasons why darts is big, but it just keeps growing.”
