Exactly 8 years ago this week, I started Knob of the Week, and remember being told at the time I would not be able to do it weekly as there would never be enough material, and as I said back then, darts is full of absolute morons, deluded players, idiotic fans, corrupt officials, egomaniacs, ex cons, and lately political correctness cunts and I would have enough.
The winner this week is the same person who won the first ever KotW exactly 8 years ago....Barney.
Back then Barney won KotW for his performance in the 2012 European championships, he beat Terry Jenkins with a 113 average, followed that with a ton plus average defeating MVG, and with the other top players back then of Taylor, Fatpot and Wade all knocked out here was a chance for Barney to win a televised ranking tournament, which would have been his first in 4 years back then.
He lost to kim huybrechts, sulked, and made excuses, something which would be common practice until his retirement which was announced in the middle of a sulk. For the record, that European champs was won by Shitlock who beat Wes Newton in the final.
Now Barney wants to come back and do q-school. We all know why that is, the ex wife is probably bleeding him dry, and his new girlfriend who must be a gold digger could not be with his for his looks or personality, mas he is a potbellied, sweaty, diabetic, lump with a fucked up hair transplant and has less charisma than the black hole of entertainment Wes Newton. Truth is Barney needs the money, and like so many others in darts with zero principles he would prostitute himself. Take spineless Adams, the asshole who publicly stated he had principles, and would never play in any competition under the control of Barry Hearn, fast forward to Sharon Adams fucking off and leaving him for a person with a spinal column and a set of testicles, and lo and behold Spineless needs the money, and his so called principles went out the window and he was soon rocking up to the Grand Slam for the pdc handout like the fucking beggar he is.
Barney is the same, he needs the money, how else can a person who is never fucking happy, going to keep 2 women happy unless he has money. Covid put the brakes on his dream of milking the exbo circuit.
Of course it is still possible Barney is lying and will not turn up, and this could be another of his attention seeking episodes, afterall the guy is a proven liar.
How many times have we seen before Ally Pally how he would claim that in the new year, he would be doing the full tour ?
A ploy in order to get yet another undeserved Premier League spot, and when the new year would come around, he would miss comps and claim he was tired etc,, then by the end of the year, go right ahead and repeat the process of making claims of doing the full tour the following year.
The guy is an motivated, sulking prick and a liar. Even if he does go to q-school, and opts for what he might think is the easier route and do the Euro q-school, he would be up against players like Nico Kurz, Gino Vos, possible asian players like Seigo Asada, and guys like Martin Schindler who faces losing his card.
You only have to look at some other former top players who have slid down the rankings like Thornton to see how he struggles, or even double world champion Adrian Lewis to see the deadly tough draws he gets in basic floor comps, in the opening rounds. Barney's name and former reputation wont matter a fuck to the others were he to win a card...and providing he turns up if said card is won.
You can bet comms would rim the fuck out of him, as he was always in that clique of players that always got preferential treatment, look at his PL invites, for a guy that went almost a dozen years without a ranking televised tournament win.
so not only does Barney win the award on its eight birthday, Barney also joined up with his former manager with the funny and aptly named Ben de kok
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On the topic of preferential treatment, and this clique, this was never more proven than last weekend in the World Series finals. Firstly we had comms falling over themselves kissing the arse of Fall In Sheerluck, and how we were told about her "astonishing performance"....she averaged 85. It is very clear she is in that clique, all be it for PC reasons.
So Jeff Smith who came from 5-1 down, and had the audacity to beat their favorite munter, was then punished for beating her. you dont believe me ? Jeff Smith was drawn against James Wade, another player not in the clique, as evidences numerous times, like his omission from the PL whilst people like Barney got undeserved invite after invite.
So Jeff Smith and James Wade was put on first, which meant their game was not televised live on ITV. I fucking absolutely guarantee had Sheer Luck beaten Smith, there was no way on earth would her game been in that slot, I bet it would have been televised, thus proving the agenda against Smith and Wade.
Speaking of Wade, his game against Rob Dross was possibly the worst televised PDC semi final I have ever seen. struggling to think off hand one that was worse. Yes I know it was only a non ranking glorfied exbo, but fuck me it was abysmal, and the reason why I slate Wade more, is because at least Cross won. The comms, thick as pigshit told us, durrant must be sick at this standard.....fuck Durrant, he had his chance to be there but lost to the very same player. The comms had zero self awareness, they were acting that Durrant would have beaten these players, but that very same day, durrant played Wade and lost. In fact Wade was never in trouble against Durrant, and hgad multiple chances to win by more, the only hope durrant had was in the decider Wade would throw a poor leg, and Wade blew him away in the leg.
The worst commentator of them all was hypocrite , bitter, and jealous prick Chris Mason. This scumbag, spouted so much shit all weekend it would be impossible to address it all. The main one doing the rounds was his bitter comments about the players today.
After the semi finals of the world series, which consisted of
Krusty....the current world champion
Gerwyn Price...the back to back Grand Slam of Darts champion
James Wade...the 3rd most successful player in PDC history
Rob Cross....former World champion and former Matchplay champion.
This is the calibre of players involved and the bitter , ex convict prick who was obviously bitter and jealous as fuck said "There are guys who couldn't lace my boots and they made more in 2 years than I did in a career. And they moan" ....although I thought he said "lick my boots"...either way, his comment was dripping in bitterness.
This from a cunt who was so shit he had to sign on the dole as a player....and he even defrauded them in between beating the wife and attacking people with a hammer.
This guy won fuckall of note in his entire miserable career and thinks he is better than those today.....if that is not delusional I dont know what is, the cunt would not get through Q-school.
Scott Mitchell , Jim Williams and a slew of others could not win a tourcard, and they all did better in the BDO than Mason did.
Not content with just that bitterness, he then compounded his ignorant and stupid comments when he had the cheek to go on about bullying on social media. Fucking priceless. Later than night after slating players who he claimed were not fit to lick his boots then spouted this “It’s easier to abuse someone than appreciate them”,
Yeah Chris, you would know that, you just mocked current PDC players, and spent your time on twitter and abusing people, and now have the balls to criticize peoples behavior on social media.
This did not go unnoticed, as Mason was rightly slated on twitter and forums like these twitter posts show.
Mason has always been jealous and bitter about those with more money and talent, look how he was caught giving Taylor the wanking sign on tv, and how he ran like a whiny bitch to the papers to call Taylor a bertie big bollocks. His resentment towards those with talent and ability was always there to be seen. Checkout the videos on youtube concerning Phil Taylor.
A hypocrite who lectures people for doing what he does himself, threatens people, seeks out their address, makes physical threats against people.
When people gave him back the abuse he dealt out, he cried like a bitch and deleted his twitter, who knows his scummy fans will read this and go scurrying back to tell him and then he can try his hardman routine gain...it wont work.
He is a mental cripple, who lest we forget was the one who said the corona was not as bad as the flu, and all the people that died like hospital staff, and kids, were "going to die this year anyway".
