WRIGHT SAYS “BIG NAPPY” NEEDED TO WIN WORLDS
05/12/2023 By Phil Lanning
PETER WRIGHT says you need a “big nappy” to win the World Darts Championship.
The two-time champ at the Ally Pally will begin a bid for a third title in London in just over a fortnight.
But at the recent PDC 30-year Worlds bash in London, he says that pressure and nerves was the main thing he had to conquer to end his ‘bottler’ tag before finally winning it in 2019.
He revealed: “You need a big nappy for the Worlds. It’s about s******g yourself on stage because of all that pressure.
“It’s pressure and when you are playing at the World Championship, you want to win that world title. It’s the pressure, the crowd behind you can be against you. Sometimes you feel it now and again.
“I looked at myself when I got to my first final in 2014, I was glad to get that far but I wasn’t ready to be world champion that year.
“I had watched other world champions like Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen get dragged through the media and other stuff you’ve got to do.
“I hate doing this sort of stuff. I’m really nervous but I’ve got better and better.
“Next time round when I got to the final, I asked myself ‘are you ready for all this?’ And I went ‘yes, I’m ready’.”
Wright also admitted that he gave the PDC the wrong bank details to get his winnings.
He also joked about the fact that his wife Jo controls all the accounts and she gives me pocket money!
He added: “I was still on £200 a week. I won the Europeans and got f*** all. You should see the state of the trophy I got, oh my God.
“At the time I was in charge of the money and it wasn’t very good. I gave the PDC my bank details of where it was supposed to go into.
“That money went into cyber space because I got the digits wrong on the account number!
“The most extravagant thing I’ve ever bought? I bought a set of Phil Taylor darts, I’m not allowed to spend anything else!”
Images by Taylor Lanning.
