Gerwyn Price has been banned from wearing his infamous ear defenders at the Paddy Power PDC Darts World Championship.
The Iceman shocked the darts world last year when he wore a pair of noise-cancelling headphones during his World Championship quarter-final against Gabriel Clemens. Price had fallen behind 3-1 and emerged from the break wearing them in an attempt to block out the hostile crowd.
It did not help him in the end as he ditched them in the following set, before going on to lose 5-1. And while the Welshman insists he has no regrets about his pantomime move, he has been warned against wearing them by the PDC when the tournament gets underway again at Alexandra Palace on Friday night.
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Price said: “It's something I would do again – it shouldn't happen on that stage, but I did what I did and I can't do it again because they are banned now.
"The PDC said no more headphones. I actually want to do a walk-on wearing them and a hi-viz, then take them off to play, but the PDC wouldn't know which way it would go.
“Don't get me wrong, I don't regret it – footballers lead out mascots with autism wearing headphones (as a gesture of solidarity), and I had so many messages off parents with autistic kids who absolutely loved it.
“There were obviously more negatives than positives, but if there were one or two positives to come out of it, happy days.
“I would do exactly the same thing again, but did it block out the crowd? No – if anything, it was 10 times worse. But I was just trying to prove a point.”
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Price only resorted to the accessory because punters had gone beyond refrains about the Welsh getting “battered everywhere they go” and tried to distract him on game shots. But that didn’t stop him from receiving pelters from figures across darts in the aftermath.
Darts royalty John Lowe, a three-times world champion, accused him of turning the tournament into a “pantomime.” Meanwhile, Sky Sports pundit Wayne Mardle, who once played a UK Open event with a towel on his head, slammed the 38-year-old for being “frail”.
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