Gerwyn Price has been banned from sporting his notorious ear defenders on the Paddy Power PDC Darts World Championship.
The Iceman shocked the darts world final yr when he wore a pair of noise-cancelling headphones throughout his World Championship quarter-final towards Gabriel Clemens. Price had fallen behind 3-1 and emerged from the break sporting them in an try to dam out the hostile crowd.
It didn’t assist him ultimately as he ditched them within the following set, earlier than happening to lose 5-1. And whereas the Welshman insists he has no regrets about his pantomime transfer, he has been warned towards sporting them by the PDC when the event will get underway once more at Alexandra Palace on Friday evening.
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Price mentioned: “It’s one thing I might do once more – it should not occur on that stage, however I did what I did and I can not do it once more as a result of they’re banned now.
“The PDC said no more headphones. I actually want to do a walk-on wearing them and a hi-viz, then take them off to play, but the PDC wouldn’t know which way it would go.
“Don’t get me wrong, I don’t regret it – footballers lead out mascots with autism wearing headphones (as a gesture of solidarity), and I had so many messages off parents with autistic kids who absolutely loved it.
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“There were obviously more negatives than positives, but if there were one or two positives to come out of it, happy days.
“I would do exactly the same thing again, but did it block out the crowd? No – if anything, it was 10 times worse. But I was just trying to prove a point.”
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Price solely resorted to the accent as a result of punters had gone past refrains in regards to the Welsh getting “battered everywhere they go” and tried to distract him on recreation pictures. But that didn’t cease him from receiving pelters from figures throughout darts within the aftermath.
Darts royalty John Lowe, a three-times world champion, accused him of turning the event right into a “pantomime.” Meanwhile, Sky Sports pundit Wayne Mardle, who as soon as performed a UK Open occasion with a towel on his head, slammed the 38-year-old for being “frail”.