Luke Humphries is no longer reigning world champion, but he is still the number one in the world. That not everyone is a fan of him, however, he had to experience during the Premier League Darts.
Humphries recalls an incident from last year during Premier League Darts.
“I think it was a Premier League actually. I was playing Luke (Littler). I remember one guy. I can’t really say the word on camera. Quite horrible to be honest, saying the C-word quite a lot. Just calling me it all the time," he said on JaackMaate's Happy Hour.
“You’re a C, you’re a C... constantly trying to put me off all the time.
“I kind of looked out to him like ‘what the f*** are you doing’. Like grow up you’re 30, 40-years-old. I looked out to him and said grow up mate. Can you imagine your 12-year-old son’s dad out there screaming, shouting and swearing at a dart player.
“I could expect that from a 15-year-old kid, not a 40-year-old man. That was nothing to do with Luke, that was just a guy wanted him to win. I’ve had it before from other players.”
Deterrence
“I’m up here trying to give you a great game and you give me so much abuse, it’s not nice in a way. You are on the back end of stuff like that and it does put you off. Then you are thinking you don’t want to be up on the stage anymore.
"It’s not an environment I want to be involved in. You can’t wait to get off.
Although, of course, Humphries realizes that this is a minority. “It kind of confuses me how people come to the darts and just want to put people off. We are talking about a two or three per cent. When you come to darts isn’t it best to see players just ripping it up, playing brilliant.”
Humphries was still active at the Bahrain Darts Masters this week. In the opening tournament of the 2025 World Series of Darts, he went down 7-6 against Stephen Bunting in the semifinals.
Great game there with my good mate @sbunting180 gutted to lose but happy for Stephen to progress! Still feel like my game needs some fine tuning before I’m back to my best, it’s been a great week here in Bahrain, I will work harder to be better! 👊🏻❤️🎯 @OfficialPDC https://t.co/tGxpxynk7b
— Luke Humphries (@lukeh180) January 17, 2025