LUKE: “I’M NOT GOING TO WIN EVERYTHING!”
13/02/2024 By Phil Lanning
WORLD CHAMP Luke Humphries has told fans to only judge him at the end of the year.
The World No.1 arrives in Glasgow for the Premier League Night Two on Thursday night seeking a big win to really kick-start his campaign.
Humphries, 28, will make his big stage debut in Scotland when he faces Nathan Aspinall at the OVO Hydro and hit out on X when it was intimated his form had dipped after winning the World Championship.
He was beaten 6-0 by Ian White in the ProTour in Wigan on Monday but he is not worried about the form book.
When it was suggested that it had been a difficult start to his reign as World Champ, Humphries said: “Not really… the season’s only just started!
“I’m not going to win everything! You go through moments of playing well and bad. Worst game I’ve played this year… they happen.
“I think because I’m world champion every little thing you do get criticised that’s the difference.
“The calendar is a LONG season…judge me at the end of the year not now. I started off last year the same way and look what happened in the end.
“My head is up…people get so excited when you lose a game of darts like it’s the end of the world!
“I’m going to be playing for 20 years hopefully there will be moments off greatness and moments of terrible I’ve accepted that…that’s darts for you.”
Ironically ‘Iceman’ Gerwyn Price pulled out of the ProTour, which was won by Luke Littler on his debut, apparently due to freezing cold conditions.
Humphries confirmed it was chilly in his defeat to White, adding: “Absolutely freezing haha, but same for both players!
“Ian handled it much better than I did.”
Images by Taylor Lanning.
