Mason discusses Sherrock criticism: "She did something like 18 hours of media in two days, with that comes huge pressure"

Chris Mason took part in a near hour chat with Online Darts to recount the events of the darting world over the past month with one of the topics being that of the World Series and Fallon Sherrock.

Mason discussed her playing in New York and how the amount of media she did would have contributed to the criticism she got and that it was unwarranted and hindered her game as a result.

"Her media commitments having been over to America, it was staggering. I've personally never seen anything like it, she did something like 18 hours of media in two days. With that media comes huge pressure on her shoulders, a little unfairly. She gets so much stick which really makes my p*** boil. It's so unfair, all she wants to do is play darts. She is totally grateful to be involved, the way she handled the media and defeat, I doff my cap to her. Lovely young lady and just trying to get on," said Mason to Online Darts.

"You do the same interview over and over again and still smile and then have to go and play darts and then the disappointment of not producing what we know she's capable of. All power to her."

Another aspect of the World Series was ITV deciding not to show proceedings live for multiple tournaments and Mason said it was a decision that came down to competing with other sports for advertising and space and that all the team were gutted with how it turned out.

"ITV is one business, ITV1, ITV2 is different etc. They're under the same umbrella. I totally understand the decision not to do it live because of the time difference, that isn't the only sport that's done it in the past. What extra would it be to put it out live? Not a lot as they would have taken it from the World feed. The other decisions not to run Friday nights live in other events in Denmark and Amsterdam was a baffling one."

"They didn't want to go up against the football. Unfortunately like a lot of sports that go up against darts we don't get the priority, it's like Sky, they've been moved all the way down. There's been times I've not been able to find it. Everybody who works on the darts team are 100% committed to the sport."

"Everyone was disappointed. We did what we could. No-one's particularly happy with it at ITV but that's the way it turned out."