Michael van Gerwen cruised to victory in the double-Dutch dust-up with Dirk van Duijvenbode and warned: “It will take something strange to stop me.”
Van Gerwen eased into the PDC World Championship quarter-finals 4-1, averaging 100.42, and aubergine farmer DVD's body language was frostier than a bowl of Frosties afterwards.
Van Gerwen, who now meets Chris Dobey in the last eight, said: “I didn't play well at all, but we are both Dutch and I didn't want to read the papers tomorrow saying I'd been kicked out by Dirk. I didn't want that. If I play like this and I feel comfortable, I'm not going to lose. It will take something strange to stop me.
