Explosive Luke Littler and Humphries claims emerge as World Cup rival brutally exposes 'rubbish' superstars
Welsh star claims English WC flops didn't work as a team
Gerwyn Price drove the final explosive boot into England's World Cup flop by claiming Luke Humphries and Luke Littler didn't act as a team and didn't even sit together.
The World No.1 and World Darts Champion were touted as the tournament's best-ever super team ahead of the event in Frankfurt.
However, Humphries and Littler were dismantled in their very first game as a team by jubilant hosts Germany in a stunning setback for the pair just a day after they both got an MBE.
Price and Jonny Clayton were immediately installed as favourites after England's demise and, although unified, they came up just short when losing the Final in a last-leg decider to Northern Ireland.
Wales' teamwork was evident throughout, but Price stated that was not the case with the English as, when asked if you need to be a tight unit to succeed, he gave a shock revelation by lifting the lid when he said: 'I think you need a connection, I think you need to have that camaraderie off the stage and you have that connection because all the teams, when we all first turned up in the first day, the only, and I'm not just saying this because they lost, but the only two players that didn't turn up together, didn't sit together, didn't play as a team, I'm not saying who they are, but they didn't win their first game. But no, you need it, you need to turn up together, you need to be as a team, you turn up as a team, you practice together, you sit together, it's a team ethic and it didn't show with England and it showed on the board. They're great players individually, but you need to be a team.'
Clayton then joked that Price wasn't going to say who they were and he added: 'But, no, you need that team ethic and you need to be together as a team all the way through, but it did not, I wanted them to do well, but they didn't. I did, I'm not just saying that because I want to make some fans or anything, but I did, I wanted them to do well, but they were rubbish.'
Price's connection claim was clear within the Welsh as he and team-mate Clayton are mates with two past wins under their belt in 2020 and 2023. Josh Rock and Daryl Gurney just outgunned them in the finale, but he said: 'We kept ourselves in the game. I don't think we were at our best, but we dug deep, we got it to 9-9. I think being 7-5 up, the crucial leg was to go 8-5 up and we bombed that and we were 8-7 down and chasing the game.
'We got to the final, we didn't play our album at best, I don't think at all in the tournament, but it shows that as a team and as good friends and as a really good team, whether we're playing at our A game or not, we can reach finals and we can give ourselves a chance. The emotions of the [NI] boys, they really, really wanted it and probably wanted it a little bit more. I wanted a win, don't get me wrong, but their emotions at the end of the game, they probably deserved it a little bit more.'
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