Smith reveals comment from Wright before Anderson defeat: "Good luck Gaz, he can't win in a final"

Michael Smith lost out in the final to an incredible display to Gary Anderson at Premier League Darts in Nottingham.

Smith revealed though that Peter Wright made a comment before he went on stage saying that Anderson had it in the bag and he also called out the notion that Anderson doesn't practice.

"It's getting there, it's not too bad when Peter Wright says good luck Gaz, he can't win in a final. But it's one of them, I've won Shanghai and other things but when you go on stage and you've got other professionals trying to heckle you then Gaz played amazing up there," he said to Online Darts.

"For someone who'd not thrown a dart for six months, it wasn't too shabby. He practices everyday and he knows when he's playing me he steps up. He talks absolute rubbish."

En route, he came back from the brink to see off Gerwyn Price and said he didn't know if he did something wrong as he wasn't spoken to after the game.

"I was more annoyed that I beat Gez the way I did and he didn't speak to me after so I was like was it my fault, have I done something. I know I never but he let me off massively."