BUNTING VOWS: “I’M DANGEROUS”

STEPHEN BUNTING has vowed he is “dangerous” like the new-look Liverpool football team. 

The ex-Lakeside World Champ is in some of the best form of his career before facing Danny Noppert in the last 16 of the Grand Slam tonight. 

Bunting, 38, puts a lot of that down to increasing the weight of his darts from 12 to 18 grams – and following the revolution of Jurgen Klopp’s stars at Anfield. 

He said: “I compare myself to Liverpool football club.

“Liverpool are phase 2.0 now with the new midfield; it’s all refreshed and that’s the way I feel.

“I think the first part of my career in the PDC I was good, but I was never brilliant, and now I feel like I can make myself brilliant.
“I’m dangerous, and if I can keep playing the way I’m playing at the minute, then I believe I can win titles, but I’ve got to keep doing it.
“It’s one thing talking about great averages, but I’m not winning tournaments, so it’s about time I turn those averages into wins, and I’m trying the best I possibly can to make that happen.
“I’m really enjoying the ride to be honest, and I believe that I can go all the way.”

Bunting, who will take on World No.7 Noppert for a place in the Grand Slam quarter-finals, sealed his place in the knockout stages with a terrific 5-3 victory against Peter Wright.
He followed up a sequence of 103, 101 and 107 checkouts with legs of 13 and 14 darts to triumph in the pair’s Group E shootout, which condemned Wright to his third group stage exit in four years.
He added: “When you’re playing on stage against a legend like Peter it’s always difficult.
“Everyone is questioning Peter’s form at the minute, but he’s still one of the best players in the world in my eyes.
“I held it together well and I’m so happy to be through to the next round. I’ve put a lot of hard work in behind the scenes, so this is a special moment.”

Images by Taylor Lanning.