Mid-afternoon, and with excitement building ahead of the most hotly anticipated game of darts in at least one of the finalists’ lifetimes Luke Humphries, newly-crowned world No 1, was dragged away from his preparations to deal with some questions from Sky.
“The sport deserves the things that are happening,” he said, “and if I win tonight it’s great for the sport because you’ve got the world No 1 who’s proved his worth.” Yeah, nice try pal. Humphries may have been by a margin the outstanding performer in the sport over recent months, but in the buildup to this game nobody was seeing him as the sport’s salvation. He was just the bloke who had to answer questions about Luke Littler. And, a little later, he was the bloke who answered the Luke Littler question.
