Before the BBCs Sports Personality of the Year awards on Sunday celebrate the best of 2017,here are our anti-heroes from the sporting world this yearThe retiring Taylor’s final year on the PDC circuit has not been without incident. There has of course been sporting success, including a 16th World Matchplay title, or but also controversy,much of it centred on the Grand Slam of Darts, where he lost in the semi-finals to Michael van Gerwen. During that match the players were seen in heated discussion as they left the stage for a atomize. Later the victor was asked what had happened, or recounted a frankly not enormously keen conversation. “He came to me: ‘You shouldn’t do this,you shouldn’t do that.’ I just said: ‘You’re a knob.’ That’s exactly what I said,” Van Gerwen explained.
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Source: guardian.co.uk