"It has happened to me myself" - Vincent van der Voort understands inappropriate action by Rob Cross

For Rob Cross, the World Darts Championship ended in a major disappointment. The former world champion, seeded fifth at this year's World Darts Championship, lost 3-1 to Scott Williams in the second round. He was later discredited for making the "lewd gesture" during the match.

Cross still won the first set against Williams, but after losing the second set 3-2, he stormed off the stage and in full view of the cameras made the so-called "jerk gesture.

"I think he is going to get a warning and maybe he will get a fine, but I don't expect it to cost thousands of pounds," Vincent van der Voort said in the podcast 'Darts Draait Door'.

The infamous incident with Rob Cross

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Still, Van der Voort does not want to be too hard on his colleague. "I can have a very big mouth and opinion about this, but it happened to me once myself," he said.

"I had one time when I was trailing 7-3 in a match against Ian White at the World Matchplay and at the break I throw 180, 140, 140, 100, 180," Van der Voort recalled. However, he could not continue that good line: "The guy says 'game on' and I just throw 43. Then I raised my middle finger to the board."

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"I cursed once in an interview and once I took my phone out of my pocket. So I can act all manly of 'you shouldn't do that and be ol' stupid,' but I've had them myself, so it would be very weird if I start acting brave here now."

Incidentally, it is not entirely clear why Cross reacted the way he did. Normally that it is done towards the opponent, but Cross and Williams normally get along very well. "We are good friends," Williams reaffirmed afterwards at his press conference.

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