controversy Of Darts

GARY ANDERSON'S boss Tommy Gilmour has called for gamesmanship to be BANNED.

It comes after The Flying Scotsman's world title bid was derailed by another controversial incident.
Ando crashed out in the quarter-finals to broken ankle victim Aussie Simon Whitlock who clearly upset the Scot's fluency by hesitating and limping to and from the oche.
Anderson looked agitated by Whitlock and never recovered his composure, going on to lose 5-1.
It's the third time that he has been affected in an oche controversy.
In 2009 Ando was involved in 'Floorboardgate' when he claimed Adrian Lewis was stomping back from the oche.
Then back in November he stormed off stage in the Players' Championship claiming that opponent Jamie Caven was SNIFFING loudly to distract him — dubbed 'Sniffgate'.
The dark arts of darts has been back on the increase.
There's been accusations of players grinding arrows, muttering, blowing on their rivals and BREAKING WIND to annoy their opponents.
Even a breeze halted Lewis and Wade's PDC world semi-final which some claim was gamesmanship from Jackpot.
Likewise Lewis delayed his Premier League clash with Anderson at the SECC last year after coins were thrown on the stage. Lewis went on to win both games.
Gilmour said: "It has to be stopped. The Darts Regulation Authority and PDC must act now to stop it undermining a great sport.
"Great players should only be concentrating on high scores and checkouts, not on cheating. It's doing a great disservice to the sport.
"The incidents are on the increase and any doubt should be stamped out and then players punished.
"We can't have situations where players are limping one minute and OK the next, but managing to delay rivals and ruin the game.
"The DRA and PDC know the players better than anyone, they'd recognise gamesmanship — and stop it."
Anderson admitted he needs to toughen up to deal with distractions.
He said: "I just want to play darts and win or lose I don't care, as long as it's fair and square.
"But not all players want to do that. I need to work on my game to deal with it.
"I don't feel I should have to. If a rival wants to mess about I'd rather just pack up my darts and go home."