ANDERSON BACKS STRUGGLING WRIGHT

By Phil Lanning

GARY ANDERSON has told fans and pundits to “back off” from struggling buddy Peter Wright.

‘Snakebite’ crashed out of the Worlds after an awful performance against Arno Merk.

Michael Van Gerwen even called for Wright to retire in a brutal assessment.

But Ando was quick to support his World Cup-winning partner.

He said: “We can’t play well all the time. People think we’re robots. You’ve just got to play well all the time. Oh he’s had a bad couple of games, he’s finished. He’s retiring. Just give folk a break. We can’t keep doing that day in and day out.

“We’ve seen Michael van Gerwen do it for probably the last decade. He has a blip. Well that’s him, he’s finished. Give the bloke a bit of time. We can’t keep doing it day after day, month after month, year after year. It’d be nice to, but we just can’t. It’s just one of these things.”

Image by Taylor Lanning.