- Price and Adrian Lewis come from behind to win
- Crowd in boisterous mood after being absent last year
Perhaps it was only right that, with Christmas just around the corner, the ultimate pantomime villain of darts was front and centre on the PDC world championship’s return to normality. The event last year was very much darts, but not as we knew it; yes, there were stories and moments we will never forget, and try telling Gerwyn Price that the manner of his first world title was any less meaningful in the absence of a crowd.
Price knows that darts, more than any other sport, thrives from the energy a live crowd can bring. They came in their thousands here in all manner of fancy dress: jockeys, Bavarians, cowboys and even a Homer Simpson or two. They were here for a pre-Christmas party, but after the peculiarity of last year’s tournament they were also here to remind us what normality felt like.