CAMERON MENZIES was pulled up by rival Jim Williams for “rattling" his darts during their Players Championship clash.
The Scot delivered different awesome large signifier win, taking retired the Welshman 6-2 successful Minehead connected Friday.
But Menzies, 35, admitted afterwards that the brace had exchanged words midway done the match.
He said: “It was a bully start, Jim wasn’t Jim. He pulled maine up for rattling my darts. I can’t contradict I was doing it. But I would ne'er bash it tactically.
“I bash apologise to Jim if it enactment him off. I’m not tactical but I’m fidgety.
“Jim told maine to clasp my darts. I bash this each the time. The crushed is years agone I had a acceptable of darts, I broke one.
So 1 dart was remade for maine and was somewhat antithetic from the rest. So I ever made that my archetypal dart.
“I’ve benignant of kept doing that. My volition is not to cheat, I’ll play fair.
“I felt amended determination than astatine the Grand Slam. But I deliberation the Grand Slam situation caught maine retired a small bit.
“A spot of inexperience, I benignant of got progressive successful the tournament. The Grand Slam was possibly a stepping chromatic to wherever I privation to be. I’ve inactive got a agelong mode to go.”
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Menzies besides revealed helium HATES seeing himself being truthful affectional connected the stage.
He added: “Recently a feline sent maine a TikTok video and it shows my emotions and I hatred it. I cognize I’m antithetic and I enactment stupid. I genuinely hatred it with a passion.
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“But it’s due to the fact that I privation it truthful much. I privation to beryllium a player, I privation to triumph titles. I’m not saying I’m bully capable but I privation to triumph titles.
“I’ve got a batch to larn connected the stage. I consciousness similar connected the level due to the fact that I’ve been determination for truthful long. I request to larn connected the large stage.”
The Scotsman has been successful a narration with chap darts prima Fallon Sherrock since 2021.
The 30-year-old roseate to fame successful 2019 erstwhile she became the archetypal pistillate to bushed a antheral astatine the PDC World Championships.
Both Sherrock and Ayrshire darts leader Menzies person qualified independently for Ally Pally again this twelvemonth and it would beryllium a matchup for the ages should the gully brace them together.
List of all-time Darts World Champions
BELOW is simply a database of Darts satellite champions by year.
The database does not include winners from the pre-Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) epoch oregon BDO satellite champions.
That means Raymond van Barneveld, for example, is lone listed erstwhile - Barney besides won 4 BDO titles - and nary of Eric Bristow's 5 BDO titles are included.
- 1994 - Dennis Priestley
- 1995 - Phil Taylor
- 1996 - Phil Taylor (2)
- 1997 - Phil Taylor (3)
- 1998 - Phil Taylor (4)
- 1999 - Phil Taylor (5)
- 2000 - Phil Taylor (6)
- 2001 - Phil Taylor (7)
- 2002 - Phil Taylor (8)
- 2003 - John Part
- 2004 - Phil Taylor (9)
- 2005 - Phil Taylor (10)
- 2006 - Phil Taylor (11)
- 2007 - Raymond van Barneveld
- 2008 - John Part (2)
- 2009 - Phil Taylor (12)
- 2010 - Phil Taylor (13)
- 2011 - Adrian Lewis
- 2012 - Adrian Lewis (2)
- 2013 - Phil Taylor (14)
- 2014 - Michael van Gerwen
- 2015 - Gary Anderson
- 2016 - Gary Anderson (2)
- 2017 - Michael van Gerwen (2)
- 2018 - Rob Cross
- 2019 - Michael van Gerwen (3)
- 2020 - Peter Wright
- 2021 - Gerwyn Price
- 2022 - Peter Wright (2)
- 2023 - Michael Smith
- 2024 - Luke Humphries
Most World Titles
- 14 - Phil Taylor
- 3 - Michael van Gerwen
- 2 - John Part, Adrian Lewis, Gary Anderson, Peter Wright
- 1 - Dennis Priestley, Raymond van Barneveld, Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith, Luke Humphries