Michael van Gerwen faces additional fines as he swears on Sky Sports once more after Littler loss
Michael van Gerwen dropped yet another expletive following his World Darts Championship final defeat to Luke Littler at Ally Pally tonight as Sky Sports forced to apologised
Dutch darts superstar Michael van Gerwen forced Sky Sports to apologise live on air again after dropping another post-match expletive.
A gracious van Gerwen was interviewed following his 7-3 PDC World Darts Championship final defeat to Brit Luke Littler, who became the youngest ever world champion and snatched van Gerwen’s own record in the process.
Asked about Littler’s achievement: “I’m 35, he’s 17. Every 17 years a star gets born… He did well, he deserved it… Of course it hurts but that is how it should be.”
Van Gerwen then joked: “I’m an old b******compared to him, you know what I mean?”
The comment caused presenter Abigail Davies to apologise for the expletive before congratulating him.
It could land him a fine from the Darts Regulation Authority and it comes the day after van Gerwen’s semi-final win over Chris Dobey, following which Davies had to apologise after the three-time champion said he had “won [bleep] all yet”.
Van Gerwen battled hard in the final but left himself too much to do as Littler raced into a four set lead.
That was due to a mixture of Littler’s scoring power and a damagingly poor success rate on the doubles for van Gerwen, who missed a host of important chances.
He finally got on the board with a 132 checkout but it was more of the same as Littler continued to keep him at arm’s length.
Littler got the job done with a double 16 to get his hands on the trophy.
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Ecstatic and emotional, Littler told Sky Sports: “I can’t believe it, honestly, I can’t believe it.
“We both played so well, and I said I needed to get off to a quick start tonight, and that’s what I did. But I knew Michael was behind me the whole game. Everyone dreams of lifting this trophy. I can’t believe it.
“That first game against Ryan Meikle, I keep saying it, but it’s the game that really mattered, and throughout I’ve just settled.
“At 2-0 up (in the final set) I started getting nervous but I said to myself to just relax. I was throwing for the match and to get it over and done with then was special.”
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