darts player Paul Nicholson has opened up about his stormy rivalry with Phil Taylor and believes he was "hated" by the 16-time world champion at one stage.Taylor was dominating darts at the start of the 2010s, with no one seemingly able to cut off The Power.
Nicholson proved to be a rare, albeit brief, exception. The Asset defeated Taylor in two televised tournaments in quick succession in 2011.
After one of those victories, at the UK Open, Nicholson infamously waved Taylor off. At the time, he denied the gesture was aimed at his rival, but recently conceded he did intend to give the darts icon a ‘send off’. “In that moment, I had double eight with three darts [to win], I knew I was hitting it.
I did think ‘what am I going to do to make this a moment?’ because that’s what sportspeople do,” he told the Darts Show Podcast. “The Ronaldos, the Tiger Woods, they have ‘moments’.
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