LONDON: The images were blurred, and the wifi decidedly dodgy, but darts stepped up to the oche on Friday to provide some rare live entertainment ...
LONDON: The images were blurred, and the wifi decidedly dodgy, but darts stepped up to the oche on Friday to provide some rare live entertainment for sports-starved fans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"This PDC Home Tour is an absolute car crash. Moon Landings had better picture quality," commented one Twitter user.The connections were not helped by some rudimentary technological fixes, including a suggestion that Welshman Jamie 'Fireball' Lewis had taped his camera phone to a door-handle to provide the necessary images.
"It doesn't surprise me. I struggle to pay bills online in my house, it's really frustrating," he had told the Sun newspaper.World number one Michael van Gerwen was another big absentee, the Dutchman telling RTL7 television that his home life made it impossible.
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