Michael Smith slaughters Peter Wright for 'giving him s***' as darts champions clash in astonishing stooshie

Michael Smith has slaughtered rival Peter Wright in a stunning post-World Cup darts war of words.

The English hero savaged the Scot after teaming-up with Luke Humphries to lift the title. Smith and Humphries beat Austria in the Final, but Bully Boy says he was fired-up by the antics of Wright prior to the last-four Auld Enemy showdown. Following Scotland’s scrappy last-eight win over Sweden, Snakebite blasted out in a TV interview that he and team-mate Gary Anderson were going to “smash” the English.

However, behind-the-scenes, Smith was angered by Wright after a remark made at him in the lead-up to their clash which suggested he was being carried through the tournament by his partner Humphries. The corridor comment was also captured by PDC social media and Smith blasted: “Before the semi-final, we won the quarters and Peter Wright walked past asking Luke how his shoulders were. The guy had just averaged 78 and he’s trying to give me s**t. I’m thinking: What are you doing?

“That guy should have some strong shoulders because he has been holding up the Premier League for two years. Then he had an argument, well not an argument, he was trying to give me a bit of banter behind the stage, but Peter, you’re not good enough, mate. He annoyed me and that spurred me on in that semi-final. I needed to get that out because it really annoyed me.

“I’ve never given it that large ever. You even see with a 70 checkout. I’ve never celebrated that much for a double-eight going in. Even when I won the Worlds, the Grand Slam, I never gave it that large in my life. Now I have finally got a gold medal.”

Humphries also enjoyed the success as he stated: “That’s the most I have celebrated and been up for darts in a long, long time. I was really up for it, I really wanted to win. Being World Cup champions, No [English] team has done it in eight years, so obviously it’s a tough thing to do.

“We did it at a canter. We played fantastically well. A lot of other teams weren’t worried about us, said we wouldn’t gel, but we did. We proved that. We didn’t listen to what anyone else said, we didn’t let it affect us, we concentrated on ourselves. We knew we could play as well as we did.

“When you win the Worlds, you don’t think that feeling can be topped, but it is up there for me. That incredible feeling of emotion that you get running through your body when you know you have done it for your country. It’s not every day you get to play for your country, let alone win for it. We are super proud and we didn’t let anyone get near us.”

Smith was elated to finally emulate Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis. The Stoke duo won it for England four times, but the last of those successes came in 2016 and the current duo ended an eight-year drought for their nation. Smith said: “I have tried so hard. I know it’s Luke’s debut, but to finally get my hands on it now, it is not just Phil and Adie, it’s Michael and Luke.”