Darts fans accused James Wade of losing the plot after a bizarre interview in which he called his opponent a "big old boy" who was like a "bad smell."Wade has form when it comes to odd post-match debriefs - darts fans may recall when he said he wanted to hurt Japanese qualifier Seigo Asada after their dramatic clash at 2018 world championship.
And he produced another stonker of an interview after seeing off Croatian ace Boris Krcmar 10-8 in the last-16 stage of the UK Open on Saturday night - hitting a nine-darter along the way. "I kept kicking him and he wouldn’t bugger off," Wade said afterwards. "He’s a big old boy though, isn’t he?"In the nicest way possible to him, I think I should have got rid of him quicker. "He just kept lingering.
He was like a bad smell that wouldn’t go away, so credit to him."Wade has developed a reputation for being a player other professionals hit nine-darters against, so it made a change to see him hit one of his own against Krcmar.
Reflecting on the achievement, he said: "It was quite cool, you know? And they were all in the middle. I don’t think there’s any I could doubt."You see quite a lot of people hit nine darter but they were all white middleish and it was never in doubt.
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