Darts cult hero ‘offered’ to fight rival outside venue after accusations of mid-match act

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Darts star Scott Williams was left seething after being accused of deliberately putting off an opponent in a recent Masters qualifying match.The world no.44 was angered after an opponent accused him of purposefully tapping his foot to put him off his throw.Williams revealed details of a heated exchange with an opponent over accusations of his in-match conductGettyIt led to the pair getting into a heated confrontation with Williams refuting the idea that he deployed gamesmanship tactics during the match.Williams left fuming “The other week I played someone in the Masters qualifier and he accused me of tapping my foot so I offered him outside,” Williams told the Happy Hour Podcast.“I won the game and I put it in his face,” he added.Williams spoke of his anger at the allegation and claimed that he had never tried such schemes to get one over an opponent.“I am stood there and I have never done anything,” he said.“I would never do anything. I literally have the same routine — I get my darts, I walk and I stand. That is it.”He then spoke of the difference small sounds can make in empty venues compared with bigger arenas and that repetitive noises might affect a player’s concentration.“If you hear a tap or a clink or a noise and then all of a sudden that starts to become more regular,” he explained.“I’ll go this f***** is trying to have me on here. It doesn’t happen very often.”And when it comes to crowd noise, Williams says the electric atmosphere of arenas such as Alexandra Palace make it easier to block out smaller concentration-breaking sounds.Williams is no stranger to darts controversyGetty“The crowd being so loud it is just like one big white noise,” he noted.“It’s the quieter moments that can prove trickier, with occasional sounds standing out more clearly.The 36-year-old also lifted the lid on his appearances playing in Germany where he has felt some hostility following his controversial World War comments.“I get heckled and I can get on with it,” he said.“It’s just that sometimes, for some of the other players, they can’t push through it.”Unorthodox styleWilliams, who recently went public about his ongoing battle with dartitis, boasts an unusual approach to his opponents by looking away rather than studying their throws.Williams looks away from the board when his opponents are throwing@Jeremy7105 / X“I don’t look,” he said on his unconventional style. “I always stare at the floor when my opponent’s throwing.“If you watch them for those ten or 15 seconds, sometimes you put more pressure on yourself.“If you see they’ve hit 180 or 140 and you’re still stuck on 200, you’re thinking, ‘Right, they’ve got 40 left and I’ve got 160.’“Whereas if I don’t watch, it gives me that little bit more time to not feel any pressure.”