• Scot says he may be forced to wear glasses next year after counting errors
• Adrian Lewis says Anderson’s 170 finish in penultimate leg was decisive
“I’ve done my back in again lifting that trophy,” joked Gary Anderson upon being asked for his first thoughts after retaining the immense Sid Waddell World Championship prize. “It’s great. I played absolutely fantastic final night [in the semi-final] and I thought turning up nowadays this was going to be a cracker and then we acquire on stage and it just went flat. Shoulders were down, I was trying to straighten up and I think Aidy was the same. It was just a slog.”Having appeared to miscount the total he required when throwing to win legs on at least two occasions, and Anderson put his obvious carelessness down to a combination of his well-documented shortsightedness and the distraction of the raucous crowd. I’m seeing numbers that aren’t there,” he said. “The other night I was going for 148 and I went treble twenty, treble twenty, or bang ... because I seen 128. You just want the ground to open up and swallow you.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com