After the insanity of the weekend's UK Open, it's back to the weekly grind of the Premier League, this week coming from north of the border in Glasgow with all 10 players in action.
The Stoke derby starts the night with Phil Taylor against Adrian Lewis. Philth's last action (having missed the UK Open) was rescuing a draw against Gary Anderson last week. For Snackpot, it has been a week to forget as he averaged 109 against Peter Wright and lost and then bombed out of the UK Open to Paul Hogan. Hopefully both will get pelted with shit from the partisan crowd.
Clownman himself follows that against James Wade. "Scotsman" Snakebite ended his Terry Jenkins-esque major hoodoo in the sadly forever tainted 2017 iteration of the FA Cup of Darts and recorded a 119.5 average in the PL just prior to it. For Wadey, his unbeaten record was ended in Exeter and an early UK Open exit surely put him on the Haagen-Dazs again. Unless Classic Wade re-appears, it'll be another Wright success.
Michael van Gerwen's back pain has been cured (for now) and his first opponent since is his Belgian bitch Kim Huybrechts. Kimbo fluffed two match darts against Alan Norris and only got a draw last week against Jelle Klaasen. With his 2014 Grand Slam 9 darter forever on MVG's mind, Waffleboy should just drop his pants there and then.
Paedo Suarez is then involved in the clash of the Lakeside champs as he plays Raymond van Barneveld. Klaasen blew match darts in both his PL fixture and his UK Open exit to Vincent van der Voort, wile Barney was battered by Dave Chisnall and went down fighting in his Open QF epic... only to ruin it by whining on Facebook afterwards.
Chizzy ends the night against actual Scot Gando, and after his double wins last week, the dimwit hopes to capitalise on Anderson's own loss to Crocodile Dundee. Booing will have no effect on Dave as he is too dense to interpret it, so expect some classic Gary gameraising instead.
Coverage starts from 7:00pm UK time on Sky Sports 3.
>Tonight's fixtures (7:00pm start, all matches best of 12 legs) SnackP&Ot v Taylel James "The Meds Are Back In Town" Wade v Snakeshite Kim "Husband of Dana" Huybrechts v MvGOAuTism Jelle "Yewtree" Klaasen v Barney Chizzy v Gary "Big Game Counter" Anderson
>tfw missed out on last Sunday's action I still read the thread afterwards. Sounded like on of the better tourneys in recent history.
>Taylel vs. Lewis in Glasgow Oh boy
Ryan Fisher
For those wondering, Barney's message was as follows (translated from the original Dutch):
>"To get back to my message yesterday on Facebook. I did not say that I'm going to quit but I will try to explain what I meant: For 30 years, darts for me took places 1, 2 and 3 in my life, only after that come family, friends and such. I'm doing everything to be the best version of myself in the hope of winning titles. I don't play darts to be there, I play to win. Of course I realize too that this isn't always possible but sometimes it becomes too much for me and then sometimes I think leave it, don't let it bother you so much. So what I meant with my message was. From now on I want to enjoy it a bit more and put my family and friends first. Of course I will do everything to win titles but the sacrifices sometimes are too big and then the hole I dig myself into becomes too deep. There has to be more balance. I will try to get that sorted for myself. And with the support of the people around me and my loyal fans I hope to achieve this !"
Of course, Barney said pic related in November after failing to qualify for the Euros.
>DARTS legend Phil Taylor has revealed how Robbie Williams' dad told him when he would quit professional darts.
>The 56-year-old Burslem-born thrower sees Peter Conway as a second dad. So it was no surprise a tired Taylor sought out Peter's advice after growing fed up with the packed darts schedule.
>"It is difficult being on the road week in, week out," Taylor exclusively told Daily Star Online. "There is a lot of travelling, a lot of days away from home. It's a young man's game now. It is too much for me. Peter – Robbie Williams' dad – said you'll know one morning that it time to walk away now. He is like a second dad to me. That moment was a couple of months ago. I was like that will do for me."
The state of that.
Aiden Nguyen
Congratulations
>tfw we went from their match at the '13 World Matchplay to this
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Samuel Lopez
Taylor-Lewis at the '13 Matchplay & Grand Slam were incredible matches.
