DARTS ACE CALLS OUT WADE

By Aaron Nijjar  

JAMES WADE has been called out for his recent behaviour at the oche. 

‘The Machine’ licked Luke Humphries’ neck ahead of their UK Open quarter-final match earlier this month. 

World No. 11 Wade then kissed Raymond van Barneveld’s neck at the Belgian Darts Open. 

10-time major winner Wade has now received flack on the Darts Draait Door podcast. 

Darts star Damian Vlottes said: “That’s typical Wade, isn’t it? Then there’s a fuss because of that lick on Humphries’ neck, which I felt was coming all the way.  

“He’ll get over this again, of course.”  

Vincent van der Voort then pointed to another recent incident involving Wade. 

He added: “He had also decided [at the Belgium Open], ‘Well you know what, on the walk-on I’ll take longer than Dimitri Van den Bergh and Stephen Bunting put together.’ 

“That’s unbelievable. They go and stand there and then their song starts – and before they get to the stage, they are 50 autographs deep. 

“That makes you dead tired, doesn’t it? In what sport does that happen? It comes from boxing, that you come up through that crowd.  

“Here they are taking selfies, handing out autographs, and you get tired of it. They could do something about that.” 

Vlottes responded: “Wade really tries to make those matches dead too, doesn’t he?. Almost all the averages are below 90. 

“Clayton he also knows how to get out of his game, wins too. Only Littler he doesn’t manage to get out of his game.” 

Wade went on to reach the UK Open final following his victory over Humphries but was beaten 11-2 by Luke Littler in the final.  

The Surrey thrower also reached the semi-final in Wieze on the European Tour before he was defeated by the reigning World champion Littler yet again.  

Image by Taylor Lanning.