Sky Sports commentator asks ‘how quickly can MBEs be taken away?' after Luke Littler's World Cup of Darts humiliation
SKY SPORTS commentator Wayne Mardle stuck the boot into Luke Littler and Luke Humphries during their World Cup of Darts mauling.
England stars Littler and Humphries - who
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Both Luke Littler and Luke Humphries were made MBEs on Friday
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Littler became the youngest world champion at 17 years and 347 days in January
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Fellow darts champ Luke Humphries also bagged an MBEC
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With the score at 7-2 to the Germans, Mardle joked: "How quickly can MBEs be taken away?"
Mardle also reckons Littler and Humphries 'buckled' under the pressure as England were sent crashing out.
The tournament favourites were stunned by a brilliant Martin Schindler and Ricardo Pietreczko at the last 16.
The German duo were simply superb as they nailed eight of 13 doubles and smashed two stellar ton plus checkouts.
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World No.1 Humphries and Littler hit just 36 percent of their doubles and never found any rhythm.
Former world championship semi-finalist Mardle suggested the lethal Lukes crumbled under the weight of expectation.
He said: 'Luke and Luke were no doubt feeling the stresses and strains of being favourites — like massive favourites.
'To go on about how good
Phil Taylor
and
Adrian
Lewis were — they made it look easy.
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'That is how difficult World Cup pairings can be.
'Pressure got to them at some point, Luke and Luke. They buckled — and their opponents didn't.'
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Mardle praised Germany's composed and confident performance from the very first dart.
He added: 'Full credit to Martin and Ricardo there.
'It was just very good from
Germany
from leg one. When they had their chances, they took them.
'The Germans had much better finishing at the right time. It was just a really good performance.
'Ricardo and Martin showed they can do it against the two best players in the world.
'England were outplayed. It was very efficient from
Germany
.'
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